Overview Deadline: March 1, 2023 Award: up to $1,000 (maximum) Funding/Project Period: April 1, 2023–March 31, 2024 Download this CfP as as PDF. The Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) invites proposals from graduate students in any Rutgers–New Brunswick humanities department or program for seed grants of up to $1,000 to support digital humanities projects in research and/or public outreach. These projects may, but need not, be related to the applicant’s dissertation research. Grants will support projects conducted during the 12 months from the date of award (i.e. April 1, 2023–March 30, 2024). Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to attend a workshop on formulating digital humanitiesRead More →

Welcome back! This schedule introduces our almost “normal” digital humanities programming for Fall 2022. We include several new workshops as well as a mix of online and hybrid options; pay close attention to the registration form for details about attendance modalities. As before, we use the LibCal reservation system together with the rest of the New Brunswick Libraries Graduate Specialist Program. Please go to dh.rutgers.edu/calendar or to libcal.rutgers.edu/calendar/nblworkshops to reserve your spot (the information is the same in both places). The workshops will be taught by Suny Cardenas-Gomez, Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Specialist, and Francesca Giannetti, Digital Humanities Librarian. Introduction to Zotero Monday,Read More →

Download these position descriptions as a PDF. Data Science Graduate Specialist (two positions) Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Specialist Diversity in Data Graduate Specialist Overview The New Brunswick Libraries (NBL) Graduate Specialist Program provides opportunities for Rutgers–New Brunswick graduate students to use and develop their skills in a variety of methodologies while working with the Libraries to deliver consulting, workshops, and training. NBL hires Graduate Specialists to provide support to researchers in topics and methods of growing importance in the scholarly world. Graduate Specialists help the Libraries to expand the range of services offered by bringing advanced skillsets in the latest research methods andRead More →

The Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative is pleased to announce the recipients of its graduate seed grants for 2022–2023: Maria Teresa De Luca (Italian) and Paolo Scartoni (Italian) Divine Networks: An Interactive Visualization of Dante’s Comedy Sam Hege (History) Civil and Labor Rights in the Southwest: A Digital History of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Alexander Liebman (Geography) Programmed Landscapes: The Production of Digital Nature in the Valle del Cauca Lisette Varón-Carvajal (History) Colombia’s Popular Healers: Past and Present The DH Initiative gratefully acknowledges the support of the School of Arts and Sciences for the seed grant program. Grant recipients will present their work atRead More →

On February 11, 2022, we held a discussion of how to conceptualize and plan a digital humanities project, led by DH Initiative faculty members Andrew Goldstone, Francesca Giannetti, Paul Israel, Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, and Sean Silver. The workshop was especially aimed at graduate students planning to apply for a Digital Humanities Seed Grant (due March 1). A video recording of the session is available here. The workshop handout is reproduced below, together with a few additional notes on other resources and example projects (include past seed grant recipients) mentioned in the discussion. Key considerations What is the research question? What story do you want to tell?Read More →