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
2017 - 2018 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow
Jade Power-Sotomayor (she/her/hers)
The Bomba Wiki Project: Oral, Aural, and Corporeal History and Community-Making through Bomba Music and Dance
Jade Power-Sotomayor, in collaboration with José I. Fusté, is developing a web archive of Afro-Puerto Rican bomba music and dance history and practice. We will use a wiki platform to establish a bilingual, digital, open-source repository that mirrors the non-linear, protean, call-and-response nature of how bomba knowledge has been exchanged throughout its long evolution. The project will centralize, document, archive, and index ideas about bomba, facts, and expressions while cataloguing this dynamic content and making it searchable.