Can I apply more than once?
Yes. We especially encourage students to reapply if your project will benefit from the program at a different stage in your research. However, students may only receive the fellowship once during their time at NYU.
Yes. We especially encourage students to reapply if your project will benefit from the program at a different stage in your research. However, students may only receive the fellowship once during their time at NYU.
Projects that involve digital humanities components (computational analysis and data visualization, web development, digital exhibitions, mobile apps, etc.) will be favored over critical studies projects whose outputs align with more conventional outputs.
You can browse past projects to see the range. Ideally the application will demonstrate the academic 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.
Submissions are judged by a committee of affiliated digital humanities faculty from across schools and departments at NYU.
We do not need a letter of recommendation, only a brief letter confirming that your department knows about your digital humanities efforts. While we are prepared to support the selected fellows in Digital Humanities methods, we want to be sure that applicants have departmental/disciplinary support for their projects. A letter acknowledging that your department knows about your project gives us a sense of who is supporting this sort of work (even if they don’t practice digital methods) and a way to reach them.
Sure! We have a past call available here.
Applications generally open in December and close in early March. The faculty review panel then evaluates applications, and decisions are typically announced by mid-April. Summer sessions for selected fellows begin early June and run weekly until the beginning of August. Fellows then present their work at the Digital Humanities Showcase in October.
In October, Fellows present their summer work at the NYU Digital Humanities Showcase.
Your end goal need not be a completed website. If building a website is integral to your project, then it’s important to factor in the time it will take to choose a platform and/or design a site. We do not expect every applicant to have web development experience, but we anticipate that most projects will have an online presence.
In most cases, we expect that building the web identity of your project is part of the project and that fellows will build their own websites. If you hope to involve a developer collaborator, we like to know how you plan to involve them in your process.