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
2020 - 2021 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow
Solmaz Shakerifard (she/her/hers)
Digital Iran: Narratives of (De)colonization in Video Games
Digital Iran: Narratives of (De)colonization in Video Games is a collaborative project with Melinda Cohoon that examines video games with narratives and counternarratives of Iranian history, culture, and broader socio-political contexts. Through the frameworks of postcolonialism and feminism, we will curate and disseminate four video essays through a process of discourse via the online platform Twitch.TV. Through audiovisual analysis of aesthetics in video games, Digital Iran will illustrate how games create articulations of “self” and “Other.”