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CDH Graduate Fellowship – Call for Applications

30 January 2015

The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University inspires and facilitates cutting-edge humanistic scholarship, inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary collaboration, and provides support for digital humanities projects at Princeton. This year, the Center will appoint its inaugural graduate student fellow. The Center for Digital Humanities Graduate Fellow will actively employ technology in their research and create or analyze digital content with the advice of CDH faculty and staff. Applicants must be ABD in the humanities or humanities-friendly social sciences at Princeton University and plan to defend a digitally inflected dissertation in their home department. Fellows receive a full year of funding (including tuition), allowing them to reserve a year of funding to be used in their first year of DCE status. During the fellowship year the fellows will have a shared workspace in the CDH, be expected to participate in Center activities, and receive support for their activities from Center staff. Fellows will have access to CDH expertise and will be trained in the methods and tools they need to complete the digital aspect of their project, which will need to be approved by their advisor as part of the dissertation completion plan. In addition to participating in the reading group and all Center activities, the graduate student fellow will be active in the graduate student caucus, will organize and lead one workshop, will have the opportunity to invite one outside speaker or organize an event, and will present a part of their project in the spring.

The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University inspires and facilitates cutting-edge humanistic scholarship, inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary collaboration, and provides support for digital humanities projects at Princeton. This year, the Center will appoint its inaugural graduate student fellow. The Center for Digital Humanities Graduate Fellow will actively employ technology in their research and create or analyze digital content with the advice of CDH faculty and staff. Applicants must be ABD in the humanities or humanities-friendly social sciences at Princeton University and plan to defend a digitally inflected dissertation in their home department. Fellows receive a full year of funding (including tuition), allowing them to reserve a year of funding to be used in their first year of DCE status. During the fellowship year the fellows will have a shared workspace in the CDH, be expected to participate in Center activities, and receive support for their activities from Center staff. Fellows will have access to CDH expertise and will be trained in the methods and tools they need to complete the digital aspect of their project, which will need to be approved by their advisor as part of the dissertation completion plan. In addition to participating in the reading group and all Center activities, the graduate student fellow will be active in the graduate student caucus, will organize and lead one workshop, will have the opportunity to invite one outside speaker or organize an event, and will present a part of their project in the spring.

Eligibility

Applicants must be ABD. They must have completed all course requirements and other pre-generals departmental requirements as well as the general examination and have been admitted to candidacy for the doctorate in the humanities, social sciences or the arts at Princeton University. Graduate students are encouraged to apply in their 3rd or 4th year of study, and serve the fellowship in their 4th or 5th year respectively. 5th year Graduate Students are not eligible to apply. Applicants must be enrolled full-time in regular enrollment status (that is, not in absentia) for the entire year for which they are applying. A faculty advisor must review and approve the scholarly content of the proposal.

How to Apply

A complete application package will include the following materials:

  • a cover letter, addressed to the selection committee;
  • a current CV
  • a dissertation abstract;
  • a summary of the applicant’s plan for use of digital technologies in his or her dissertation research;
  • a description of CDH and Princeton library digital resources (content or expertise) that are relevant to the proposed project;
  • and 2-3 letters of nomination and support, at least one being from the applicant’s dissertation director.

Your materials and letters from your recommenders should be emailed directly to Jean Bauer at jabauer@princeton.edu no later than February 6th, 2015. Notification of the fellowship will be the first week of March.