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Articles with keyword "Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants"

Reprinting networks in 19th-century American newspapers

ODH Project Director Q&A: Ryan Cordell

By Perry Collins

In our ongoing series of interviews with recent Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants awardees, this week we spoke with Ryan Cordell, project director of "Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers."

Nitrate print of Oscar Micheaux’s "Body and Soul"

ODH Project Director Q&A: Brian Graney

By Perry Collins

Brian Graney, project director of the recently funded Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant “Representing Early Black Film Artifacts as Material Evidence in Digital Contexts,” chats with us about this upcoming workshop.

Announcing 23 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Awards (March 2013)

By Brett Bobley

The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce 23 awards from our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program from our September 2012 deadline. These awards are part of a larger slate of 205 grants just announced by the NEH.

Congratulations to all the awardees for their terrific projects!

GeoHistorian students

ODH in the News

By Perry Collins

Several of our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant awardees have received media attention in recent weeks.

Wurts Bros. (New York, NY)

Humanities and Technology Unite!

By NEH Staff

Program officer Perry Collins will participate in a panel presentation at the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) on Tuesday, October 2nd, at 6pm.

Photo of Old Post Office Pavilion made of Legos

2012 NEH Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting – Open to Public

By NEH Staff

From 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on September 20th during 2012 NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors at the National Endowment for the Humanities, the recent ODH grantees will give the public a sneak preview of 34 ground-breaking projects that apply cutting-edge technology to high quality research in the humanities. Project directors from the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, and the new Digital Humanities Implementation Grants will be discussing their work.

CoCensus pilot testing

CoCensus: Engaging with Census Data in the Museum

By Perry Collins

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are developing a new kind of museum exhibit that allows visitors to learn about their cultural heritage by interacting with census data on a dynamic map display.

Start-Up Grant Program Encouraging Research that Studies Digital Culture

By Brett Bobley

 

I’m pleased to say that we’ve just posted the new guidelines for our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. The deadline this year is September 25, 2012. Each year, we make small changes to our grant guidelines based on feedback and discussions with the field. This year, in the section where we list the types of things the program funds, we added a new bullet:

  • scholarship that focuses on the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society;

Assessing Digitization Quality

Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers

By Brett Bobley

The Mapping Texts project, a collaboration between the University of North Texas and Stanford University, recently released two new interactive visualizations that allow users to map language patterns embedded in 230,000 pages of digitized historical newspapers from the late 1820s through the early 2000s.

ODH in the News

By Perry Collins

With the announcement of our most recent round of 22 funded Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants projects and the continued accomplishments of many other ODH projects, we have seen a number of news stories in recent weeks featuring ODH grantees.