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

Dr. Sarah Misemer Publishes Book on Trains and Nostalgia in the River Plate

Sarah M. Misemer, associate professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies, has recently published her book, Moving Forward, Looking Back: Trains, Literature, and the Arts in the River Plate (Bucknell University Press, 2010). Professor Misemer was an Internal Faculty Fellow in the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research from 2005-2006. The Internal Faculty Fellowship allowed her to “begin working on this project in a serious manner.”

Misemer’s main area of research is contemporary Hispanic theater and performance, with a focus on Argentine and Uruguayan drama.

In Moving Forward, Looking Back: Trains Literature, and the Arts in the River Plate, Professor Misemer examines images of trains and nostalgia in the River Plate. She argues the train in regional literature and film is a modern anachronistic indicator of the national identity of the River Plate. Through text, film, and historical accounts, Misemer traces the importance of the train, marking key moments in Argentine and Uruguayan history from 1854 to the present. She shows that the train is not only an icon of the nineteenth-century’s Naturalist movement, but is a powerful contemporary metaphor used to communicate the cultural values of the region.

The Glasscock Center annually offers four Internal Faculty Fellowships which include a $1,000 research bursary, a one-course teaching release in the spring semester of the fellowship year, and an office in the Glasscock Center for the fellowship year. The next deadline for applications for Internal Faculty Fellowships is 3 March 2011. To learn more about the Glasscock Center Internal Faculty Fellowship or apply online, please visit the website.

Call for Papers for the 2nd Annual Symposium for History Undergraduate Research

Deadline: 1 March 2011

The History Department at Mississippi State University invites undergraduates to submit papers for the second annual SHUR (Symposium for History Undergraduate Research) meeting on 13-14 May 2011 on the Mississippi State University campus in Starkville, Mississippi. The theme of the symposium is "Visions of the Past, Dreams of the Future: Europe and America Since 1650." Papers on this theme or any other historical topic are welcome.

For more information (.pdf)

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program

Deadline: 16 November 2010.
Stipend: ranges from $25,000 to $115,000; average size is $77,000.
Description: The Fulbright-Hays FRA Fellowship Program provides opportunities to faculty members of institutions of higher education to engage in research abroad in modern foreign language and area studies.

Absolute Priority: For FY 2011, we consider only applications that meet this priority:

A research project that focuses on one or more of the following geographic areas: Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere (excluding the United States and its territories).

For more information.

Fellowships from the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Clark Short-Term Fellowships
Deadline: 1 February 2011.
Stipend: $2,500 per month in residence.
Description: Fellowship support is available to scholars with research projects that require work in any area of the Clark's collections. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. degree or have equivalent academic experience. Awards are for periods of one to three months in residence.

ASECS/Clark Fellowships
Deadline: 1 February 2011.
Stipend: $2,500 for one month in residence.
Description: Fellowships jointly sponsored by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Clark Library are available to postdoctoral scholars and to ABD graduate students with projects in the Restoration or the eighteenth century. Fellowship holders must be members in good standing of ASECS. Awards are for one month of residency.

Kanner Fellowship in British Studies
Deadline: 1 February 2011.
Stipend: $7,500 for three months in residence.
Description: This three-month fellowship, established through the generosity of Penny Kanner, supports research at the Clark Library in any area pertaining to British history and culture. The fellowship is open to both postdoctoral and predoctoral scholars.

Clark-Huntington Joint Bibliographical Fellowship
Deadline: 1 February 2011.
Stipend: $5,000 for two months in residence.
Description: Sponsored jointly by the Clark and Huntington libraries, this two-month fellowship provides support for bibliographical research in early modern British literature and history as well as other areas where the two libraries have common strengths. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. degree or have appropriate research experience.

Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: 1 February 2011.
Stipend: $37,740 for the three-quarter period together with paid medical benefits for scholar.
Description: This theme-based resident fellowship program, established with the support of the Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles and the J. Paul Getty Trust, is designed to encourage the participation of junior scholars in the Center's yearlong core programs. The core program for 2011-2012 is Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean, directed by Clark Professor Barbara Fuchs (UCLA). Scholars will need to have received their doctorate no earlier than 1 July 2005 and no later than 30 September 2011. Awards are for three consecutive quarters in residence at the Clark.

For more information.

Jameson Prize Available for Undergraduates

Deadline: Thursday, 20 January 2011.
Stipend: $250.
Description: The Jameson Prize is offered each year for the best undergraduate essay or research paper on women. Entries will be evaluated for their contribution to the understanding of some aspect of women's lives or roles, as well as for originality and clarity of presentation.

For more information.

Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship

Deadline: 15 October 2010.
Stipend: $35,000.
Description: Scholars who are no more than three years beyond receipt of a doctorate are eligible to apply for a year-long residential fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society. The purpose of the post-dissertation fellowship is to provide the recipient with time and resources to extend research and/or to revise the dissertation for publication. The topic must be relevant to the Society's programmatic scope, which is American history and culture through 1876.

For more information.