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
2019 - 2020 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow
Jennifer Bean (she/her/hers)
Archival Trouble: "Found-Footage Criticism" and Early Cinema
Developments in digital technology have created opportunities for scholars to move beyond the written word to convey analyses and arguments through multimedia work. This project draws from my years of working in silent-era archives, and re-configures often neglected or fragmented footage through a series of four video essays that explore the affects and aesthetics of images in the historical context, respectively, of suffragette activism, of women’s comedic performances, and of the global practice of repurposing celluloid material.