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
2024 - 2025 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow
Oya Rose Aktaş (she/they)
As a Digital Humanities Summer Fellow, Aktaş will map shared urban spaces of Istanbul and Seattle at the turn of the twentieth century to reveal the relational identities and encounters that were disrupted through state violence and migration. The Istanbul map focuses on Jewish and Armenian neighborhoods, and the Seattle map focuses on Turkey-born settlers (many of them Jewish and Armenian) in the Pacific Northwest.