The NYU Libraries, The Center for the Humanities, and NYU Research and Instructional Technology invites applications for a fourth series of Digital Humanities Seed Grants. These grants are intended to fund the initial development of new research projects that will analyze digital sources, apply algorithmic methods to humanities data, or create digital publications, exhibits, or websites. The goal of the program is to seed projects that may go on to receive greater funding from other sources or otherwise build NYU’s institutional capacity in Digital Humanities work.
Join Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal as they discuss their co-edited anthology, “Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts” Join Ulrich Baer (Director, NYU Center for the Humanities) and Smaran Dayal (Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature, NYU) as they discuss…
The NYU Center for the Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new Humanities Lab for the 2021-22 academic year. The Cross/Currents H-Lab will bring into dialogue the environmental humanities and migration studies, with an emphasis on race, diaspora, and indigeneity. The Lab Team has outlined three main trajectories for its investigations around the notion of Cross/Currents: mobility, transmission, and flow. The Lab's ultimate purpose is to decenter an anthropocentric and imperialistic understanding of global interconnection and exchange.
The Cross/Currents H-Lab takes the word currents as its inspiration, as both a metaphor and a tool, enveloping not only its main definition in relation to water or its movement, but also its broader reverberations. By connecting the words cross and currents, our main goal is to bring into dialogue environmental humanities and migration studies (with an emphasis on race, diaspora, and indigeneity). In our work together we hope to rehearse ways of bringing literary and artistic analysis to bear on issues of the environment and migration, and vice-versa.
Join us for a conversation with Pamela Sneed and Karen Finley on Funeral Diva—a poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era “In this collection of personal essays and poetry, acclaimed poet and performer Pamela Sneed details her coming of…
Fall 2019 | Spring 2020 | Fall 2020 | Spring 2021 | Spring 2021 In spring of 2021, Writing Matters will bring into conversation scholars who lead multiple writerly lives, blending voices and genres. How does such experimentation invigorate our…
2020-2022 Cold War Media Robert Young, Department of English, Faculty of Arts & ScienceJini Watson, Department of English, Faculty of Arts & ScienceManthia Diawara, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the ArtsDana Polan, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School…
Digital Humanities Seed Grant Project Project Title: Abu Dhabi Calling! Exploring a Growing Capital City through Phone Directories (1970-2000) Principal Investigator: David Wrisley, Associate Professor, Digital Humanities, NYU Abu Dhabi
Digital Humanities Seed Grant Project Project Title: Holding Hiring Algorithms Accountable and Creating New Tools for Humanistic Research Principal Investigators: Hilke Schellmann, Assistant Professor, NYU Journalism; Mona Sloane, Adjunct Professor, Tandon School of Engineering Abstract: The “Holding Hiring Algorithms Accountable and Creating…
Digital Humanities Seed Grant Project Project Title: Insuring Slavery: Underwriting Risk in the 18th Century Principal Investigator: Michael Ralph, Associate Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis, Faculty of Arts and Science
Digital Humanities Seed Grant Project Project Title: Developing a ‘Publications Page’ for NYU’s Prison Education Program (PEP) Website Principal Investigator: Thomas Jacobs, Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Writing Center & PEP Faculty This project will establish a website that showcases the…
Digital Humanities Seed Grant Project Project Title: Raising the Volume: Amplifying the Soul of Reason Principal Investigator: Janet Bunde, University Archivist, Special Collections Abstract: Raising the Volume is a cross-departmental initiative to transform a historically and culturally rich radio program…
Digital Humanities Seed Grant Project Project Title: The South African Jewish Cookbook Project Principal Investigator: Gavin Beinart-Smollan, History / Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Science Abstract: The South African Jewish Cookbook Project will digitize a corpus of…
Digital Humanities Seed Grant Project Project Title: Brown Brothers Collection: A Use-case Pilot for NYU-NYPL Research Collaboration, on DH Exploration of Nineteenth-century Financial Records Principal Investigator: Thomas Augst, Associate Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science Abstract: The Brown…
The following projects are recipients of Digital Humanities Seed Grant funding. These grants support the development of new research projects that analyze digital sources, apply algorithmic methods to humanities data, or create digital publications, exhibits, or websites. The Digital Humanities Seed Grant program, made possible by the Research Technology…
