NYU DH Graduate Fellowships

The Center for the Humanities, NYU Libraries, and NYU Research Technology annually fund between 8 and 10 Digital Humanities Graduate Student Fellows. Students apply with their own proposed project, which might involve–for example–engaging with digital humanities methods as the basis for a dissertation chapter or article, or building a digital public humanities project or exhibit. Project work will take place during the summer, and participants will report on work completed at an annual fall showcase event.

Proposals are judged by a faculty committee based on the merit of the project, its contribution to the applicant’s course of study, and its feasibility in the timeline proposed. We especially welcome projects that give voice or expression to underrepresented communities; that engage with the urban fabric of the cities in which NYU has campuses; and that contribute to the emerging subfield of Global Digital Humanities.

Funding

Fellows receive a taxable stipend of $5,000 for participating in the program, and are expected to dedicate approximately 300 hours for the fellowship during the summer months (June-August). All members of the fellowship cohort are expected to participate in project development sessions during that summer as part of their total hours, and can receive individual mentorship and technical guidance as needed.

Eligibility

Graduate students in the humanities from all NYU schools, including NYU Global Sites, are eligible. To qualify, they must have completed 16 credits by June 1 and maintain active matriculation at NYU through September 1 of the year they apply. Cohort sessions may be attended remotely. Faculty-led projects, including those with graduate researchers, should be supported under the Digital Humanities Seed Grants.

Graduate Fellow News

Current and Past Fellows

2023

• Jason Ahlenius, Doctoral Student in Spanish & Portuguese —  Mapping the Archives of Virtual Slavery in NIneteenth-Century Mexico
• Natasha Bernstein Bunzl, Doctoral Student in Nutrition and Food Studies —  Seeing Food (in)Access or Visioning Provisioning
• Dang Weiyu, Doctoral Student in Social and Cultural Analysis —  Mapping Territorial Sovereignty: Progressive Imperialism and the Production of Geopolitics in US-China Relations, 1899-1949
• Salwa Hoque, Doctoral Student in Media, Culture, and Communication —  Prototyping as Ethnographic Method: Bridging Digital Humanities and Anthropology
• Avra Janz, Doctoral Student in Sociology —  Excavating the “Model Man”: Tracing Normative Models of Self in Psychotherapy
• Sam Kellogg, Doctoral Student in Media, Culture, and Communication —  Mapping Media Infrastructure in Glacier National Park
• Charmaine Lam, Doctoral Student in History —  Uncovering the Mui Tsai Experience
• Ian Lehine, Doctoral Student in Cinema Studies —  VR Museum for Ukraine
• Jose Octavio Orsag, Doctoral Student in History —  Amazonian Historical Cartography: Mapping Indigenous Territories and Colonization in the Western Amazon
• Alía Warsco, Dual Degree Graduate Student at Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Library Science at Long Island University —  Making an Accessible Catalog for the CLACS Quechua Library

2022

• Hadas Binyamini, Doctoral Student in History and Hebrew & Judaic Studies —  Structured Data, Mapping, and Textual Analysis of the American Jewish Year Book
• Nuala Caomhanach, Doctoral Student in History —  The Land of the Giants: Digitally UnMapping Madagascar's Plant Diversity
• Lynn Chenel, Graduate Student, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies —  The Directory of Placenames Unforgotten
• Fatma Deniz, Doctoral Student in History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies —  Mapping, Visualizing and Analyzing the Sufi Mobility in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
• Ayami Hatanaka, Doctoral Student in American Studies —  Why Are There No ACS Offices in SoHO?: An Interactive, Digital Map of Family Surveillance in New York City
• Antonio Musto, Doctoral Student in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies —  Demystifying the Digitization of Texts: New Textual Analysis for the Medieval History of Islamic Mysticism
• Allegra Rosenberg, Graduate Student in Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement —  Visualizing the Victorian Polar Network
• Helen Frances Stec, Graduate Student in Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement —  The Brownies' Book Archive
• Oscar Stuhler, Doctoral Student in Sociology —  Who Kisses Whom?: Gendered Interaction in American Novels (1880-2000)
• Ryan Zohar, Dual Degree Graduate Student, Near Eastern Studies and Palmer School of Library & Information Science —  Mapping the Circulation of Mizrahi Texts in the Arab World, 1948-1982

2021

• Jonathan Armoza, Doctoral Student in English and American Literature —  Literary Model Quality and the Autiobiography of Mark Twain
• Lauren Busser, Graduate Student in Integrated Design & Media —  Knitting Patterns for S.T.E.A.M. Education
• Daniel Joslyn, Doctoral Student in History —  Organizing Resource Library
• Jubilee Marshall, Graduate Student in Archives and Public History —  Black Burials in Philadelphia: A Walking Tour
• Alijan Ozkiral, Doctoral Student in English —  Reading Comments Reading Instagram Comics
• Ada Petiwala, Doctoral Student in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies —  Consuming India, Becoming Global: Contemporary Popular Culture and Branding between Mumbai, Dubai, and Cairo
• Jackson Smith, Doctoral Student in American Studies —  Dirty Money and Disorderly Homes: Civil Forfeiture, Vice Police, and Illicit Capital in Philadelphia
• Georgios Tsolakis, Doctoral Student, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World —  Ancestors and Family Traditions in the Hellenistic and Imperial Polis
• Bryan Zehngut-Willits, Doctoral Student in History —  A-Files: Record-Keeping and the Golden Gate