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…
The Asylum H-Lab focuses on information/evidence/data regarding asylum seekers and the asylum process in the United States. The Lab investigates which organizations and government entities have information/evidence/data on asylum seekers, and (how) are they keeping it. The Lab is also exploring how such data can be ethically and legally archived and shared in ways that (a) meet the needs of asylum seekers and the organizations that support them, (b) generate awareness about the asylum crisis, and (c) will also be useful for current and future researchers.
The NYU Center for the Humanities makes available a limited number of grants in support of the publication of books with a humanistic focus. These are to cover costs incurred in the publication of monographs, edited collections, or translations.
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