New ODH Awards: January 2023

This week, ODH announced 14 new awards through the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG) program, as well as 14 new humanities monographs that will be made freely available online with support from the latest round of Fellowships Open Book Program awards.  Highlights include: The Virtual Viking Longship Project: A Study in the Future of Liberal Arts Teaching and Research, awarded to Grinnell College. Community Conversations: A Digitized Cultural Preservation Project in the United State Virgin Islands, awarded to the University of the Virgin Islands. The Game and Interactive Software Scholarship Toolkit, awarded to California State University, Channel Islands. Manifest, a Digital Humanities Platform for the Critical Studies of Logistics, awarded to Fordham University. These grants are just a few of the 204 awards that were made across NEH.  Congratulations to all our awardees.

Summer 2022 Internship Program

We were fortunate to work with two graduate student interns in the summer of 2022 through NEH’s Pathways Internship Program: Alexus Hunt—a master’s student in library science and African diaspora studies at the University of Indiana, Bloomington—and Essah Díaz—a doctoral candidate in literature at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.

View Essah’s report on digital humanities collaborations in the global South here.

NEH’s call for interns for summer 2024 will be announced soon. This paid program, which is fully remote, places undergraduate and graduate student interns in offices and divisions across NEH. Keep an eye on https://www.usajobs.gov/ for an announcement.

ODH in the News

Congratulations to ODH projects that received awards over the past year! Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde was awarded the MLA Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship. Photogrammar was awarded the ASA Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities.

Check out this interview with ODH Project Director Darren Defrain on the podcast AT Banter: Conversations about Disability.

Congratulations to Reading the Invisible Library, Humanities Commons, the Distant Viewing Toolkit, and Freedom on the Move for receiving funding from the National Science Foundation and the Mellon Foundation to support continued development of their ODH-funded projects.

Upcoming Deadlines

• February 2, 2023: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities, a new program supporting humanistic research that examines the relationship between technology and society.
• February 15, 2023: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students.
• March 15, 2023: Fellowships Open Book Program, a limited competition for academic presses designed to make outstanding humanities books digitally available to a wide audience. Additional deadlines: July 14, 2023, and November 15, 2023.
• February 28, 2023: Optional draft deadline for NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication, supporting individual scholars pursuing interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. Deadline: April 19, 2023.