Digital Humanities Fellows Announced
By Joseph Vaughan
Dean Stowell announced the Digital Humanities Fellows for 2007-2008 on August 22:
Dear Colleagues,
The Division of Humanities, in collaboration with the UCLA Library, is pleased to announce Digital Humanities Fellows for 2007-2008. Last year, in collaboration with the UCLA Library, we announced the creation of a number of fellowships intended to foster scholarship in Digital Humanities. This year’s call for applications was open to UCLA ladder faculty, lecturers, graduate students, librarians and technology staff. The fellowships provide funds and potential release time for senior fellows and GSR salary support for junior fellows, as well as modest research support funds, technical support, shared office space, and assistance with extramural grant applications. Fellows will work closely with the faculty and staff of the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), the UCLA Digital Humanities Incubator Group (UDHIG), and the UCLA Digital Library.
Proposals were welcomed for projects that might construct innovative databases or digital archives, develop metadata standards, produce
electronic editions of print works, create digital tools for research and teaching, undertake new media representations of data, or develop digital
mapping and geo-referencing tools. Proposals that question or reflect upon digital humanities were also encouraged.
This year’s call for applications again met with avid response from the campus community. I would like to extend my gratitude to all applicants for
giving the fellowship selection committee an outstanding pool of applications to work with. I am now pleased to announce, on behalf CDH, UDHIG, and with support from the UCLA Library, that four fellowships have been awarded for the 2007-08 academic year as follows below.
Senior Fellows:
Teresa Barnett, Head, Center for Oral History Research and Marta Brunner, Librarian for English and American Literature
Project Title: Putting Los Angeles Social Movements History on the Map: Automated Tagging of Oral History Transcripts
Maite Zubiaurre, Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Project Title: A Virtual Wunderkammer: Sexual Cultures in Early Twentieth-Century Spain.
Junior Fellows:
Andrew Miller, Asian Languages and Cultures
Project Title: Mapping Culture in the Shuijing zhu: Using GIS to Envision All Under Heaven
Loren Kajikawa, Musicology
Project Title: Technologies of Identity: A Web-Based Approach to Analyzing Hip-Hop Music
All fellows will be showcasing their results at the conclusion of the fellowship period in a campus-wide digital humanities event, so stay tuned
for information on this.
I would like to thank the members of the 2007-08 fellowship selection committee as chaired by Dr Kim Jansma for all their hard work. I would also like to thank the UCLA Library for partnering with the Humanities in this endeavor.
I look forward to the continuation of this fellowship program into the future and hope that you will join me in congratulating the fellowship
recipients.
Sincerely,
Tim
Tim Stowell
Dean of Humanities
