NYU Faculty Mara Mills (Media, Culture, and Communication) and Michelle Friedner of the University of Chicago have been awarded a prestigious Dangers and Opportunities of Technology Grant from the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities. The team, which includes authors who themselves use cochlear implants, won $149,815 outright.
In their project “The Global Cochlear Implant: Provincializing ‘Brain Implants’ Through Disability Technoculture,” Mills and Friedner will conduct a humanistic comparative study of cochlear implant technology as an early form of neural-computer interface.
Mills is also currently working on her NYU Digital Humanities Seed Grant winning project, Preserving Pandemic Activism on Disability Social Media.
Congrats, all!
