DH Center Blog
DH FELLOWSHIP DEADLINE EXTENDED to 3/21/2018
Mar. 19, 2018—The deadline for 2018-19 Mellon Digital Humanities Fellowships has been extended until Wednesday, March 21, 2018. One-year fellowships are available at the graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty levels. Find more information about the fellowships and application process here.
Juliet Larkin-Gilmore: Frederick Douglass Day 2018
Feb. 15, 2018—Although Frederick Douglass was born into bondage, and never knew his birthdate, he chose to celebrate every year on February 14. Members of the Vanderbilt community gathered to celebrate Douglass’ elected birthday and his legacy by transcribing documents from the Freedmen’s Bureau Papers, making these important records more accessible to researchers worldwide, in a multi-institutional event organized by the Colored...
Just Published: Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South
Jan. 19, 2018—Congratulations to Professor Kim Welch, DH Faculty Fellow, on the publication of her new book, Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South!
Jenifer Dodd: Data Curation: Simple Tools for Starting Projects
Jan. 15, 2018—The first step for much digital humanities work is data curation: collecting data, putting it into a format that makes sense for your project, and making sure it doesn’t contain any mistakes. While some DH technologies have steep learning curves, data curation can be done by anyone. Data Curation: Simple Tools for Starting Projects ArcGIS,...
Gabriela Ore: To Code or Not To Code
Dec. 4, 2017—As archaeologists, do we need to code? No. Will it help our research, or will it make a substantial difference? Mmm …, no. Do we need to collaborate? Will it help our research, will it make a substantial difference? Yes. To code or not to code This is the question that I posed as part of one...
Ted Dawson: On Cyber Monday I turned off my router: Slowness in the Digital Humanities
Nov. 29, 2017—On Cyber Monday I turned off my router: Slowness in the Digital Humanities I’ve never shopped on “Black Friday.” Maybe it’s that I don’t like waiting in lines, but I like to think it’s because the celebration of consumer capitalism isn’t my thing. I prefer spending the Friday after Thanksgiving relaxing, taking walks, enjoying the...
Kellie Cavagnaro: Announcing a New Digital Humanities-Enhanced Course for Undergraduates!
Oct. 11, 2017—Anthropologist Kellie Cavagnaro is a Mellon Graduate Fellow in Digital Humanities and a Fellow in Vanderbilt’s Comparative Media Analysis and Practice (CMAP) joint-PhD program. Building on her Digital Humanities and CMAP experiences, she will offer a new undergraduate course this Spring, that will integrate a series of curricular and instructional designs that connect students with on-campus media experts, and...
Angela Sutton: Digital Initiatives for Public Engagement: Storytelling and Oral Histories of the Descendants of Fort Negley
Sep. 27, 2017— Digital Initiatives for Public Engagement: Storytelling and Oral Histories of the Descendants of Fort Negley There is a fortification on St. Cloud Hill, right next to Nashville’s Adventure Science Center, called Fort Negley. Beneath it are buried countless stories untold that we may never get a chance to recover. This fort played a pivotal role...
When Communication Is Key – Honing In On Online Platforms Of Communication For Alternative Black America
Dec. 2, 2016—The social impact that the internet provides its users opens doors (or Windows) for building a community which would otherwise struggle to connect. As a Mellon Digital Humanities Graduate Fellow, I have been given the opportunity to continue some of the digital work that I started prior to my admission to Vanderbilt University in 2015...
Reflections on GIS Day 2016
Nov. 16, 2016—On GIS day (and please, do visit us at the Center for Digital Humanities Open House this November 16th, from 1:00-3:00 pm), I wanted to take a closer look to the role of GIS in the current stage of development of the Digital Humanities. I am looking forward to celebrating GIS day as any other...