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Call for Proposals The Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative invites proposals for seed grants of up to $2,000 to support digital humanities projects in research, teaching, and public outreach, in any discipline or area of the university.  This funding cycle will be for projects conducted during the subsequent 12 months (April 1, 2016 – March 30, 2017). Rutgers DHI seed grants are designed to foster collaborative projects of all kinds, including: Textual analysis: digital editions; websites that invite linguistic, social, and historical analysis of texts; text aggregation sites; the development of tools for digital analysis. Geospatial approaches to literary texts and historical problems. Network Analysis ofRead More →

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This past week I had the opportunity to interview Cameron Blevins, a new post-doc here at Rutgers University. Where and what did you study? I’m a California product. I was first an undergraduate at Pomona College, in southern California, and then went to graduate school in the Bay Area, at Stanford. I received a PhD in U.S. History at Stanford, with a focus on the late nineteenth century and the American West. I was also a member of the Stanford digital humanities community – I was a lead researcher at the Spatial History Lab and the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, and was oneRead More →

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Thanks to the collaborative work of the SAS Digital Humanities Initiative and the Libraries’ DH Working Group, the DH lab in Alexander Library is open starting Summer 2015. This space is available to members of the Rutgers DH community for use in project consultations, teaching, workshops and lectures. Reserve the space at http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/digital-humanities-lab/signup-form.  Read More →

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Join the Digital Humanities Initiative mailing list to learn about public events, conferences, courses, lectures, and workshops taking place at Rutgers and throughout the region. This is a low-volume listserv maintained in Sakai. Click here to subscribe (netID credentials required). If you are not a current member of the Rutgers community, please send a subscription request e-mail to Francesca Giannetti, Digital Humanities Librarian, at francesca.giannetti [at] rutgers.edu.Read More →