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Funding Opportunities
Jun. 13, 2020—Funding Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation is a key provider of academic funding at the institutional level. While students cannot apply to receive individual support directly from the Foundation, keep an eye out for opportunities offered by the Foundation’s many campus partners. For example, Vanderbilt graduate students are eligible to apply for year-long...
HASTAC Scholars Program
Jun. 12, 2020—HASTAC Scholars HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) is an “interdisciplinary community of humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists, and technologists changing the way we teach and learn” (https://www.hastac.org/about-hastac). This global network of digitally-minded scholars has over 16,000 members across 400+ affiliate organizations. Vanderbilt is one of those affiliates, and the HASTAC Scholars...
2019-2020 Mellon Fellows Projects
May. 26, 2020—Showcase Welcome + A talk on “Tracing Mixed-Gender Networks in Renaissance Venice with Digital Tools” Jun. 4, 2020—A presentation by Katherine McKenna, 2019-2020 Postdoctoral Fellow Read more Women in Architectural Practice: Pathways in American Modernism Jun. 3, 2020—A presentation by Kevin Murphy, 2019-2020 Faculty Fellow Read more Community Archival Indexing and the Pine Mountain Settlement...
DH Projects 2017-2020
Dec. 16, 2019—Dr. Barbara Hahn The “Hannah Arendt. Collected Writings. Critical Edition. Digital and Print” will be a complete hybrid edition of Hannah Arendt’s published and unpublished work. Funded by Vanderbilt University and realized in collaboration with the Free University of Berlin, and the Göttingen State and University Library, the critical edition will edit, catalog and published...
2019-2020 Working Groups
Aug. 26, 2019—The Center hosts a number of working groups for scholarly discussion, project development, and skills training. See below for schedules and details. Spatial Humanities The Spatial Humanities working group will investigate technologies, scholarly methods, and political practices related to geospatial data in humanistic research. It will survey a range of tools, including ArcGIS, QGIS, Story...
2019-2020 Mellon Fellows
Jun. 25, 2019—FACULTY FELLOWS Alejandro Acierto, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Art and Digital Media Alejandro T. Acierto is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Digital Art and New Media in the Department of Art and the Program in Cinema & Media Arts at Vanderbilt University. An interdisciplinary artist and musician who works across media...
2018-2019 Working Groups
Aug. 26, 2018—The Center hosts a number of working groups for project development, scholarly discussion, and skills training. See below for meeting times and details about our groups. Fort Negley Working Group: Digital Tools for Social Engagement Feb. 4, 2019—Fort Negley Working Group Alternate Tuesdays, 11:00 am, Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick) Expanding on the work...
2018-2019 Mellon Fellows
Jun. 25, 2018—Faculty Fellows Carwil Bjork-James, Anthropology Sophie Bjork-James, Anthropology Betsey Robinson, History of Art Kimberly Welch, History Postdoctoral Fellows Andrea Kikkert, German, Russian, and East European Studies, Vanderbilt University Christopher Mapes, History, Vanderbilt University Don Rodrigues, English, Vanderbilt University Graduate Fellows Jacob Abell, French and Italian Studies and CMAP Catheryn Beeson-Lynch, Sociology Cameron Clark, English and...
Maxime Durand
Dec. 16, 2017—From Dreams to Realities; Performing History in the Assassin’s Creed® video game series The past is a scattered jigsaw puzzle we feel driven to reconstruct, despite the challenges of lost models and many missing pieces. The teams working on Assassin’s Creed have mastered a unique method to interpret the past through breathtaking digital environments. From...
Digital Humanities Colloquium
Dec. 16, 2017—Thursday, October 27, 4:10 p.m. Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities, 344 Buttrick Hall A Decade of Digital Humanities at Vanderbilt: Roundtable Discussion of the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies Digital Archive Saturday, October 29, 10:00 a.m. Curb Center Vanderbilt THATCamp keynote address Amanda Visconti, “Public + Participatory: Infinite Ulysses and a more...