Susan Ariel Aaronson, Pamela Norris, Alexa Alice Joubin, and David Karpf Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin has been named George Washington University’s inaugural Public Interest Technology (PIT) Scholar. Here is a news story. Along with two other PIT scholars, Susan Ariel Aaronson and David Karpf, Joubin will facilitate cross-disciplinary research and teaching,…
GW Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books….
GW Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin received the Trachtenberg award for research as well as a Writing in the Discipline teaching award in 2022.
As previously announced on this blog, GW has been awarded a substantial Andrew W. Mellon grant to support “Resilient Networks to Support Inclusive Digital Humanities.” Competitive jump-start grants of $5000 are now being offered to member-institution faculty pursuing digital humanities projects! Read more about the scale and scope of the Mellon grant here. If you wish…
Announcement: GW Libraries has been awarded a $500,000 collaborative two-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support networked projects in the digital humanities. Congratulations to CCAS Dean Ben Vinson, GW Librarian Geneva Henry, and XD@GW (Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration at GW) Director Diane H. Cline! Read more about this grant at GW Today.
Great news! GW Libraries has just received a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to use a social feed manager to aggregate and analyze Twitter data. An application developed by Daniel Chudnov, Director of Scholarly Technology at Gelman Library, will aid GW librarians and researchers to collect and store millions of tweets per day. Read…
