I'm very happy to say that the NEH has just announced five new awards from our Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program.  These grants support national or regional training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. These awards are part of a larger group of 154 awards announced today by the NEH.  For a full state-by-state list of all the awards, please see today's press release. Awards in the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program (click on each for more details): George Mason University -- Fairfax, VA One Week, One Tool: A Digital Humanities Barn Raising Tom Scheinfeldt, Project Director Outright: $249,221 To support: A one week institute for twelve participants on the principles of humanities-centered...

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While my colleague Jason is at MLA, I wanted to alert all you historians and friends of historians that there will be an NEH contingent at the American Historical Association meeting in New York during the first week of January. Several of us from various NEH Divisions and Offices will be available to discuss project ideas.  Our official session will be held on Saturday, January 3, from 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm, in Concourse E at the Hilton.  We'll present an overview of the various programs offered by the NEH and we have allotted lots of time for the question and answer period.  If this session somehow conflicts with your other AHA activities, NEH also will have an information table on 3rd Floor East Promenade at the Hilton.  Please stop by to say hello...

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Project directors have put out a call for participants for two upcoming digital humanities workshops that have received recent funding from NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants. 

In February 2009 the University of Richmond’s conference on “Visualizing the Past: Tools and Techniques for Understanding Historical Processes” will focus on two questions:

•    How can we harness emerging cyberinfrastructure tools and interoperability standards to visualize, analyze, and better understand historical events and processes as they spread out across both time and space?
•    How can user-friendly tools or web sites be created to allow scholars and researchers to animate spatial and temporal data housed on different systems across the Internet? 

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Just a quick announcement that the deadline for the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program will be February 18, 2009.  I should note that a slightly revised version of the guidelines will go up on the NEH website in the next few weeks.  However, the revisions will be quite minor, so please do consult last year's guidelines in the meantime as you begin to plan your application.  Based on your feedback, we set the deadline earlier in the year so that, if funded, you will have the option of holding your workshop or institute in the summer of 2009.  I will send out another announcement as soon as the new guidelines are ready.

Update:  The new guidelines are now available!



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On Tuesday, March 18, I had an opportunity to observe my ODH colleague, Jason Rhody, give a presentation on digital humanities at the NEH to the 2008 liaisons meeting of The Independent College Office, an organization of liberal arts colleges.   At other meeting sessions, staff members from the Division of Research Programs and the Office of Challenge Grants spoke about their work.

I thought that Jim Boelkins, the Provost at Hope College did a nice job of introducing Jason. Jim reaffirmed that the NEH is not just interested in supporting work on digital humanities that orginate from research universities (although those projects are still welcome).  He reminded the audience that Christian Spielvogel at Hope College received a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant in 2007 for his project to develop a web-based simulation based on the online Valley of the Shadow archive. Among the many issues that Jason discussed, one that I thought was particularly relevant to Start-Up Grants is the importance of collaboration—with...

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