Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships
The Simpson Center offers annual summer fellowships for faculty and graduate students to pursue research projects that use digital technologies in innovative and intensive ways and/or explore the historical, social, aesthetic, and cross-cultural implications of digital cultures. The program has three primary goals:
- To animate knowledge—using rich media, dynamic databases, and visualization tools
- To circulate knowledge—among diverse publics
- To understand digital culture—historically, theoretically, aesthetically, and generatively
The Simpson Center gratefully acknowledges the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as well as many donors to the endowment which is underwriting these fellowships.
2025 - 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Fellows
2023 - 2024 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow
Taiko Aoki-Marcial (she/her/hers)
Multilingual “Translationships” and Digital Storytelling with Local Communities
Our project merges storytelling, critical approaches to multilingualism, and digital humanities to explore how digital storytelling can create meaningful, culturally sustaining and mutually reinforcing connections within and between multilingual local and academic communities. Grounded in participatory, community-engaged, and decolonial methodologies, the project has two main goals: 1) Contribute to a linguistically and culturally diverse heritage digital space by supporting the creation, curation, and dissemination of multilingual stories meaningful to local multilingual community members in the Seattle area; 2) Develop culturally sustaining, feminist-oriented, and decolonial pedagogical practice and resources for adult (English) language and literacy education.
This is a collaborative project with Christina Sánchez-Martín.