Digital Humanities Accelerator
Personalized support for Princeton faculty with DH projects
Are you a Princeton faculty member in the humanities with a digital research project, or an idea for one? Are you curious about how your digital project might fit into your broader research agenda? Are you thinking about applying for a grant, and wondering where to start? Have you reached a transition point in your research and would like support for expanding or concluding your digital project?
The Digital Humanities Accelerator provides personalized project design and strategy support for humanities faculty with digital research projects at any stage.
What is Digital Humanities Project Design?
Digital Humanities Project Design translates the large expansive goals of humanities research into the modular and operationalizable components of digital projects. We will help you define clear milestones (with their own scholarly outputs and technical requirements), and begin crafting language to use with colleagues, funders, and administrators. We will also help you identify the different resources and team members you will need along the way.
Why CDH?
Over the last ten years, the CDH has supported over 30 Princeton faculty with digital humanities research projects of all sizes through various stages of the project lifecycle, from ideation to implementation to closeout. We are uniquely suited to advise on entry points into the field as well as on cutting-edge technologies like AI and current best practices in research software engineering. We have longstanding expertise in project design and management and have partnered with faculty from all disciplines to build collaborative research infrastructures for innovative humanities research.
What can I expect?
These personalized 90-minute in-person consultations will be led by Assistant Director Jeri Wieringa and Digital Humanities Project Manager Mary Naydan, who are DH scholars with a combined 20 years of experience in the field of collaborative digital humanities research. After introducing key concepts in project design, we will lead you in a hands-on whiteboarding session in line with your project stage and questions. To conclude, we will provide you with reference materials for additional support, both technical and financial, available on campus and from external funders.
How can I apply?
If you are interested in participating in the Digital Humanities Accelerator, please fill out the form linked below. There are six available slots over the 2025-26 academic year that will be filled on a rolling basis.
During the Fall 2023 semester, an earlier version of this program called the Humanities Accelerator offered group consultations to connect project teams with key campus partners, including the Keller Center for Innovation, Digital Scholarship (DiScho), Web Development Services, Research Computing, and the Office of Research and Project Administration, among others, and was led in collaboration with the Dean for Research and the Vice Dean for Innovation.