The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce five six new awards from our Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program from our February, 2011 deadline. These awards are part of a larger slate of 249 grants announced today by the NEH.
Congratulations to all the awardees for their terrific projects! (And please consider attending one of these institutes once they announce their dates and application materials.)
Brown University
HT-50043, Taking TEI Further: Teaching and Publication
Julia Flanders, Project Director
Outright: $249,974
To support: A series of workshops to be held at Brown University for humanities faculty, related staff, and graduate students to explore advanced uses of digital text encoding for use in humanities scholarship and teaching.
Meets at various times.
Registration information here.
Indiana University, Indianapolis
HT-50049, Spatial Narratives and Deep Maps: Explorations in Advanced Geo-spatial Technologies and the Spatial Humanities
David Bodenhamer, Project Director
Outright: $241,513
To support: A two-week institute and follow-up activities for humanities scholars to consider the potential for incorporating geospatial theories, methodologies and technologies into humanities research and teaching, with a particular focus on the history of religion in the United States.
Meets: June 18-29, 2012
Registration Information here.
New York University
HT-50048, Linked Ancient World Data Institute
Thomas Elliott, Project Director
Outright: $217,081
To support: A two-year series of summer seminars, hosted by New York University and Drew University, for humanities scholars, library and museum professionals, and advanced graduate students on the possibilities of the Linked Open Data model for use in humanities scholarship with a particular focus on Ancient Mediterranean and Near East studies.
Registration information here.
Tufts University
HT-50044, Working with Text in a Digital Age
Gregory Crane, Project Director
Outright: $249,727
To support: A three-week institute with follow-up activities at Tufts University on the use of computational and corpus linguistics methodologies for scholarly research for humanities scholars, library professionals, and graduate students.
Meets: July 23-August 11, 2012
Registration information here. [pdf]
University of California, Los Angeles
HT-50047, Digital Cultural Mapping: Transformative Scholarship and Teaching in the Geospatial Humanities
Todd Presner, Project Director
Outright: $248,184
To support: A three-week summer institute hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles to explore how geospatial technologies like Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be used for teaching, learning, and research in the humanities.
Meets: June 18-July 3, 2012, with option to stay through July 6
Registration information here.
University of South Carolina
High Performance Computing Collaboratory
HT-50046
Jijun Tang, Project Director
Outright: $249,588
To Support: A series of workshops to be held at the University of South Carolina and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to consider uses of high-performance computing applications in humanities research and teaching.
Meets: June 10-14; August 5-9; August 25-26
Registration information here.