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
2021 - 2022 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow
Beatrice Arduini (she/her/hers)
Tracing Representations of Domestic Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
The abhorrent yet consistent practice of premodern slavery across the Mediterranean world has not received as much scholarly attention as the transatlantic slave trade. The aim of my project is to build a digital repository to weave together these disparate threads of both the secondary and primary sources on domestic slavery in medieval and early modern Italy. This interdisciplinary, public-facing WordPress website will house resources for academics, educators, students, and more general public.