Summer Graduate Fellowship Program in Digital Scholarship
In July-August 2014, Cornell University Library (CUL) and the Society for the Humanities co-sponsored a second year of its five-week summer fellowship program for graduate students in the humanities.
Piloted as an internship in Summer 2013, this program was inspired by the recognition that humanities graduate students at Cornell need additional opportunities to develop digital skills and knowledge that will be increasingly necessary in academic job markets. The Fellowship’s primary aim is to provide graduate students with the time and technical support to explore digital scholarship tools and platforms in ways that complement their own scholarly and pedagogical goals.
Liz Blake, Mia Tootill, and Kaylin Myers at the final program meeting
Professor David Mimno meets with grad fellows to discuss text analysis and topic modeling. Mia Tootill, David Mimno, Jake Nabel, Jason Blaesig.
The program brings together a small cohort of graduate fellows for an intense 5-week fellowship period. Fellows spend approximately half their fellowship time in workshops and discussions; the other half they spend creating a small-scale digital project of their own, with inspiration, guidance, and technical support from Cornell faculty and CUL staff.
We were thrilled to receive nearly three times as many applications in 2014 as we received in 2013, and we are already planning to expand the program in 2015. Stay tuned for news of a pubic showcase of fellows’ work this Spring!
2014 Summer Fellows :
Jason Blaesig, Anthropology
Project: multimedia site in Scalar combining anthropological field recordings and translations of Peruvian folklore
Liz Blake, English
Project: topic modeling the text of James Joyce’s Ulysses
Kaylin Myers, Medieval Studies
Project: online compilation and interactive translation of Old English Body and Soul homilies
Jake Nabel, Classics
Project: compilation and translation of ancient Parthian inscriptions, including an online Parthian grammar
Mia Tootill, Musicology
Project: interactive map and collection in Omeka using Neatline to visualize the location of opera venues in 19th century Paris
Program Sponsors
Professor Timothy Murray, Director of the Society for the Humanities
Oya Y. Rieger, Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services
Bonna Boettcher, Interim Director of Olin and Uris Libraries
CU Faculty
Prof. Edward Baptist, History
Prof. David Mimno, Information Science
CUL Program Staff
Mickey Casad, Coordinator, CUL – DSPS
Virginia Cole, CUL – Olin/Uris
John Handel, CUL – DSPS
Michelle Paolillo, CUL – DSPS
…with many thanks to:
Jenn Colt, CUL – DSPS
Jason Kovari, CUL – LTS
Danielle Mericle, CUL – DSPS
Susette Newberry, CUL – Olin/Uris
Jaron Porciello, CUL – DSPS
Anne Sauer, CUL – RMC
Melissa Wallace, CUL – DSPS
Florio Arguillas, CISER
Patrick Graham, Academic Technologies
Patrice Prusko, Academic Technologies