Call for Nominations for the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC) Graduate Fellowship Research Awards

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Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC) Graduate Fellowship Research Awards

Call for Nominations, 2011-2012

The new Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC) will award 2 fellowships of $15,000 each for 8 months beginning December 15, 2011, renewable for 9 months during the academic year 2012-2013. The first round of competition will be held this Fall semester and awards will be announced October 15. Nominations in the all departments and colleges participating in the Digital Humanities Certificate Program will be considered by the selection committee, which consists of faculty in Communication, Computer Science, University Libraries, Performance Studies, and English.

The purpose of the awards is to give students the opportunity to participate in major projects underway at the IDHMC, giving them the opportunity to implement practically some of the theoretical, rhetorical, methodological, and philosophical ideas at play in their proposed dissertations.

The successful applicant will be conducting research in the following fields: information visualization, crowd-sourcing archives, interactive digital editions, global media studies, digital rhetorics, computational linguistics, human-computer interaction, game studies, serious games, topic modeling, linked data, OCR development, performance studies, or digital art.

Candidates will be asked to participate in workshops held by the IDHMC, 3 to 4 per academic year, and to serve in the Applied Research Consortium as a team member. (An announcement about ARC is attached.) Finally, candidates will effectively run the IDHMC journal using Open Journal Software Systems, with technical support from staff.

Eligibility:
Candidates must be participating in the Digital Humanities Certificate program, and ideally they will have attended the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria, sponsored by (IDHMC), for at least one summer session.

There is no limit on the number of students who may be nominated by each department, and the best candidates will be chosen without consideration of department or college.

Contents of Nomination Packet:
Students must submit the following:

1) Nominee Information: give the name and email address of the nominating professor.

2) A “layman’s summary” of the nature and significance of the dissertation project as currently imagined; this must not exceed three single-spaced pages (see detail below under evaluation criteria) NOTE: If you have already officially completed a proposal, do NOT attach the full proposal that was filed with OGS.

4) Student's curriculum vitae

5) Timeline of graduate study and completion

6) Support letter from the nominating faculty member (see detail below under evaluation criteria)

Submission Deadline:
Thursday, September 15, 2011.

Evaluation Criteria:
Though the dissertation need not be fully conceptualized at this point, the nominee should articulate clearly the importance the research questions currently motivating their graduate study and the likely contribution of the results to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of their home discipline and digital humanities. Additionally, what we are looking for in these summaries is more the ability to formulate sound and viable research questions than to prematurely propose answers.

Letters by nominating faculty should include the name of nominee and details about the contribution to the field(s) that the student’s work is likely to make.

Restrictions:
Successful candidates will be required NOT to work elsewhere in any capacity during tenure of the fellowship. The fellows’ colleges will be asked to waive tuition, and their departments will be asked to defer teaching duties to a later time.

Submit Nomination Packets to:

Professor Laura Mandell
Director, IDHMC
MS 4227
mandell@tamu.edu

Gary Marchionini to Present in the Glasscock Center Digital Humanities Lecture Series

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce a public lecture in its continuing series on Digital Humanities. Gary Marchionini, Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, will give a lecture entitled "The Open Video Digital Library: The Challenge of Transition from Test Bed to Sustainable Library," on Friday, 1 February 2008 at 3:00 p.m. in the Evans Library, Room 204E. This event is free and open to the public.

In his lecture, Marchionini will discuss the challenges posed by transitioning contemporary library resources to new media technologies. Marchionini, former director of the Perseus Project (a digital library devoted to classical culture), now directs the Interaction Design Laboratory at Chapel Hill, is editor-in-chief of the ACM Transaction on Information Systems, and is the author of Information Seeking in Electronic Environments (1997).

The lecture series continues on 27 February at 4:00 p.m. in the same location with a talk by Ray Siemens of the University of Victoria on “Imagining the Electronic Book.”

For more information, see our website http://glasscock.tamu.edu/, visit our blog at http://www.glasscockcenter.blogspot.com, or contact the Glasscock Center at glasscock@tamu.edu or at 979-845-8328.

Mike Godwin of the Wikimedia Foundation to Present in the Glasscock Center Digital Humanities Lecture Series

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce a public lecture in its continuing series on Digital Humanities. Mike Godwin, General Counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, will give a lecture entitled "After the Revolution," on Monday, 28 January 2008 at 4:00 p.m. in the Evans Library, Room 204E. This event is free and open to the public.

In his lecture, Godwin will discuss the impact of the digital revolution on the humanities. Godwin is an attorney who focuses on legal issues involving new media, speech, and intellectual property law and is the author of Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Cyber Age (1998). He has written for American Lawyer Media and The American Lawyer and has served as general counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as his current position with the Wikimedia Foundation.

The lecture series continues on 1 February at 4:00 p.m. in the same location with a talk by Gary Marchionini of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill on “The Open Video Digital Library: The Challenge of Transition from Test Bed to Sustainable Library.”

For more information, see our website http://glasscock.tamu.edu/, visit our blog at http://www.glasscockcenter.blogspot.com, or contact the Glasscock Center at glasscock@tamu.edu or at 979-845-8328.

NINES Workshop in Digital Scholarship

NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship) is offering a week-long workshop for scholars undertaking digital projects in nineteenth-century British and American literary and cultural studies. The workshop will be held at Miami University, Ohio, 22-29 July 2008. Deadline is 15 October 2007.

The workshop will provide a practical setting where scholars can develop their individual digital projects with other scholars who have shared interests, goals, and problems to be addressed. The workshop will focus on theoretical, technical, administrative, and institutional issues relevant to the needs of the specific projects. A three-day seminar on scholarly text encoding (with TEI) run by Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman of Brown University will begin the workshop. Michael Eberle-Sinatra of the University of Montreal will conduct a seminar on online journals, and Amy Earhart, Texas A&M, as well as Britt Carr, of Miami, will conduct seminars on incorporating Google MAP APIs into projects. Artist Ira Greenberg, author of Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art, will teach a seminar on visualizing data. Other Miami faculty and staff will teach seminars on scanning, project management, editing theories,
database design, and usability. Everyone accepted into the workshop will have lodging and meals provided. There will be a workshop fee of $400.

HOW TO APPLY
Applications should not exceed two single spaced pages. They should be headed with a
project title and a one-sentence description of the project. They should include as well a
developed project description that addresses each of the following matters:
• The scholarly rationale for the project.
• The technical and theoretical problems that face the project and that can be addressed in the NINES workshop.
• The expected duration of the project, its phases, and some description of the current state of work.
• The digital technology used or needed by the project.
• The technical support available to the scholar at his/her home institution.
Send applications by October 15th to: workshops@nines.org

Evans/Glasscock Digital Humanities Project Fellowships Call

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and the Texas A&M University Libraries’ Sterling C. Evans Chair announce a new program to assist the early development of projects in digital humanities. This program will support tenured or tenure-track scholars in any department in the university by providing up to $10,000 to a project in digital humanities (collaborative or singly directed). Preference may be given to untenured or newly tenured faculty applicants.

This program is meant to offer significant but flexible assistance to faculty – as individuals or in collaborative teams – whose current scholarly project depends on or is fundamentally inflected by information technology, computer-aided research, and/or the ‘digital revolution.’ The program is especially aimed at those who have embarked or who are keen to embark on research in the humanities that is ‘born digital.’

Applicants for this grant must provide the following:

- title of the project

- a 500-1000 word statement describing a) the nature of the project, b) the general uses to which the Evans/Glasscock funding will be directed, and c) the expected research outcome from this support, including grants to be sought, publications and presentations anticipated, and so on;

- an itemized budget;

- a curriculum vitae of no more than three pages noting accomplishments and qualifications germane to the project at hand;

- contact information: email, campus address, telephone;

- description and amount of other sources of funding for this project, current, anticipated, and applied for.

A committee comprised of faculty from various disciplines will evaluate applications on the basis of their originality, feasibility, and potential for external funding and for publication.

Recipients will be expected to provide an account of how the funds awarded were expended, to submit a report on the progress this award made possible, and to give a presentation about their funded project as part of the Glasscock Center’s annual Digital Humanities Lecture Series.

It is expected that an award will be made in each of the next three years.

Please address questions to glasscock@tamu.edu. The deadline for applications is 5:00 p.m., Monday, 30 April 2007. They should be directed to the Glasscock Center, MS 4214 or electronically to glasscock@tamu.edu. Decisions will be announced by mid-May.