CDH Announcements: March 14th

Hi-
Just a few announcements from the Digital Humanities community to welcome you back from Spring Break! First, a reminder of our upcoming Future Knowledge Series Lecture Event:

Noah Wardrip Fruin
Meaning What We Play: Games, Fiction, and Expressive Processing
Tuesday, March 15th
4 pm
Lumpkin Auditorium, Moore School of Business
(Reception to Follow with FREE FOOD!)

Participate!
Digital humanists are invited to participate in the third annual Day of Digital Humanities, a project tracking 24 hours in the field of digital humanities. On March 18th, 2011 individuals in the field or related professions will document the events of their day with photos and discussion. This project is an online collaborative publication, with each participant co-authoring and decisions made communally. However, participating in the Day of DH shouldn't require a large time commitment. Most of the work will be in uploading short entries and photographs during the documentation day. The degree of involvement beyond that will be up to you. To find out about the previous two iterations of the Day of Digital Humanities see: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2011
This project is bring members of all types and from around the field together to post about what they do and reflect on what others are doing. We particularly encourage graduate students, developers and international colleagues to participate. You don't have to be "important"; you don't have to write in English; and you don't have to have a lot of experience in the field. Your opinions count! To participate please fill out the application form by March 15th, 2011. Apply now.

Job Opportunities

The Scholars' Lab seeks a Web Applications Specialist, a Humanities Design Architect, and (newly posted) a Head of Outreach and Consulting.
http://scholarslab.org/announcements/web-applications-specialist/
http://scholarslab.org/announcements/humanities-design-ux-architect/
http://scholarslab.org/announcements/head-of-outreach-consulting/

The Scholars' Lab engages in intellectual programming and innovative R&D, sponsors a vibrant program for Graduate Fellows in Digital Humanities, administers beautiful public spaces for collaborative scholarship, partners with faculty and librarians on new interfaces to digital collections, and offers classes and builds community in the following areas: geospatial research, textual scholarship, statistical analysis, and Web and software development for the digital humanities. We pride ourselves on fostering meaningful, collaborative partnerships with UVa scholars. In addition, all of our faculty and staff are granted 20% of their time to pursue professional development or self-initiated R&D projects.
Learn more about us here:
http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/
http://scholarslab.org/


UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
HUMANITIES DIVISION
MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Salary: 29,099 30,870 (As at 1 October 2011) A two-year research and teaching appointment in Digital Humanities from October 2011 for an outstanding academic at an early stage of his or her career. These fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a wider Oxford University initiative which is designed: to provide an intensive and supported career development opportunity for outstanding academics at an early stage of their career; and to promote equality of opportunity by helping to create a more diverse pool of potential candidates for future academic posts at Oxford. Applicants must have obtained his or her doctorate by 1 October 2011, and should not normally have completed it earlier than 1 October 2007. We welcome applications from all whose research is in the digital humanities, involving the innovative and productive application of digital tools or resources to research questions in any subject under the Humanities Division (see http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/). The Fellow will be employed by the Faculty closest to his/her academic interests. A college association will be arranged for this post, and he/she will also become a Research Associate at the OeRC (http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/). For further details, information about how to apply and an application form, please visit: www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/research/index/230311/arrs7423j/. Applications must be received by midday on Wednesday 23 March 2011.


Conference/Workshop/Training Announcements
The 4th annual Palmetto Open Source Software Conference
(http://posscon.org/) being held March 23 - 25 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. The cost is $99 and there are ton of workshops and training opportunities.

The LSU Center for Computation & Technology is now accepting applications for the Summer 2011 REU Program. Please distribute this information to your students as this is a Great Opportunity for them. http://reu.cct.lsu.edu/index.php

This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) project is a nine week program where students work collaboratively on a wide variety of computational science projects. Each student receives a stipend of $4,500, free housing in university dormitories, and up to $500 in travel expenses to and from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 14 students will be selected.
Qualifications:

• interested in a major that is within the computational science umbrella (leaves out few majors as it includes all sciences, mathematics, engineering, finance, statistics, etc.) with at least a 2.75 GPA,
• considering a career in research and/or graduate school in your major, and
• a US citizen or permanent resident.

Important Dates:

• December 6, 2010: Application opens.
• March 15, 2011: Application deadline.
• March 31, 2011: Notification of decision.
• May 30, 2011 through July 29, 2011: Program dates.

The research activities of the CCT are organized into five Focus Areas:

• Core Computing Sciences
• Coast to Cosmos
• Material World
• Cultural Computing
• System Science and Engineering

These are broad, and sometimes overlapping, areas where faculty from diverse departments (Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Civil Engineering, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Music, Business, etc.) collaborate in multidisciplinary projects. Our REU students will learn how to use some of the nation's largest supercomputers, may participate in the setup and management of large-scale simulations, and may take on an important role in the analysis and visualization of the simulation results.

For more information and to apply, visit: http://reu.cct.lsu.edu/index.php

Announcing Great Lakes THATCamp 2011
Held on the campus of Michigan State University on April 30th and May 1st, Great Lakes THATCamp (The Humanities & Technology Camp) is a user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities originally inspired by the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University.

Who Should Attend?
Anyone interested in studying, supporting, teaching, researching, creating or otherwise shaping digital humanities, humanistic social sciences, information sciences, new media, and any other allied fields. You can be an academic, a librarian, a geographer an archivist, a developer, a writer, a student (grad or undergrad), a curator, a designer, an educator, a public historian, an archaeologist, or any combination thereof (as most of us are). You can be an expert or a newbie; as long as you have something to talk about and things you want to learn regarding the intersection of the humanities and technology, this is the place to be. The list of “who should attend” is as broad as the field of “digital humanities” itself.

So, No Suits, No Papers…What Do You do?
Show, tell, collaborate, share, and walk away inspired. Sessions at Great Lakes THATCamp will range from software demos to training sessions to discussions of research findings to halfbaked rants. The only real thing we donʼt want to see is people standing up and reading a full blown paper, this isnʼt your typical academic conference – weʼre not here to read or be read to.

Submitting a Proposal
Submitting a proposal to Great Lakes THATCamp is easy. Just fill out the Application form on the website (http://greatlakesthatcamp.org). No formal (lengthy) proposal is required - just a brief description of what you would like to talk about. Unfortunately, we can only accept a max of 100 people, so weʼre going to have to do some vetting. Deadline for submitting is March 11th, 2010.

How Much Does Great Lakes THATCamp Cost?
THATCamp isnʼt your average academic conference, so you arenʼt going to have to pay an expensive conference registration fee. All we ask is that all attendees pay $25 to cover meals (attendees will be provided breakfast & lunch during the event), as well as a t-shirt to commemorate the event.

For more information on Great Lakes THATCamp, go to http://greatlakesthatcamp.org. Any questions can be sent directly to Ethan Watrall (watrall@msu.edu)

Humanities (Dot) Net
Currents in the Digital Humanities
15 June 2011
Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto
Organized by centerNet and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)

In 2009, centerNet and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) created a partnership to jointly pursue activities in the digital humanities over the next five years. The focus of this initiative will initially be the relation of digital technologies to the humanities disciplines and the formation of new collaborations and publics.

As the first major initiative in this partnership, CHCI and centerNet have organized a meeting to collectively examine currents in the digital humanities and provide networking opportunities for each organization's members: to bring together a broad range of organizations and individuals, and enable specialists in the digital humanities to interact with organizations that are interested in developing projects in this exciting new area of scholarship. The meeting will feature plenary speakers John Unsworth (Illinois) and Brian Cantwell Smith (Toronto), panels on Digital Disciplines and Digital Publics, a roundtable discussion on the role of funders and programs that go beyond the academy, and opportunities for discussion. Schedule information can be found via the CHCI website, http://chcinetwork.org.

The meeting will take place on 15 June 2011 at the University of Toronto's Jackman Humanities Institute. All centerNet members are encouraged to attend. A small registration fee of $25US will cover the direct costs of the meeting.

In addition, CHCI invites all centerNet members to join their international membership group for their 2011 Annual Meeting, Cities Humanities Archives, on 13-14 June 2011, at the same location. Registration for the CHCI Annual Meeting is $75US per organization plus a $40US fee for the Meeting dinner on the evening of Monday 13 June. The $25US registration fee for the CHCI/centerNet meeting is waived for anyone attending the CHCI meeting.

Complete information on both programs can be found at the CHCI website, http://chcinetwork.org, including travel and lodging information, and an online registration form.

For more information write to chci@duke.edu or contact centerNet via their website, at http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/

Digital Humanities 2011: June 19-22, 2011
We want to encourage everyone to begin planning for this year's Digital Humanities 2011 Conference (June 19-22,2011). The theme for this year's conference, held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California is: Big Tent Digital Humanities (https://dh2011.stanford.edu/). Consider attending to hear about cutting edge developments in digital humanities.

As always, feel free to contact us to talk about any aspect of Digital Humanities. We love to hear from you!

We hope to see you tuesday at Noah's lecture. Hope you enjoyed your break. And welcome back!!!

Jennifer

CDH Announcements: February 22

Hope everyone is enjoying their Tuesday. A few quick notes:

Culturemachine is featuring Digital Humanities this month:
http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/issue/current

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is
seeking a full time Community Lead for at least 12 months to represent
MITH projects using social media (including our blog, Twitter feeds,
and Website), and to communicate the importance of the work to a range
of different constituencies, including scholars, librarians, and
university administrators. The Community Lead will organize and
execute a strategic plan for engagement and outreach, and represent
several of the largest projects in which MITH participates, including
Preserving Virtual Worlds, the Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE),
and especially Project Bamboo. See
http://mith.umd.edu/position-available-mith-community-lead/ for more
information.

On March 15th, Noah Wardrip-Fruin will be joining us for the last
presentation in the 2010-2011 Future Knowledge Speaker Series. Noah
will be presenting on Expressive Fiction. The lecture is at 4 pm in
Lumpkin Auditorium.

Enjoy your Week-
Jen

ANN: Blue Waters Petascale Internship Opportunity

Please forward to all potentially interested coleagues:

We would like to make you and your undergraduate students aware of the Blue Waters undergraduate internship program. The NSF Blue Waters project will be funding 17 undergraduate research internships again this year. This program provides for: 1) a $5000 stipend for the student over the course of the year; 2) travel, accommodations, meals and participation in a two-week intensive Petascale Institute at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); 3) travel to the SC11 conference in Seattle in November.

Because this program is run nationally NCSI is soliciting student applications from across the country, in addition they are seeking faculty with research or educational projects involving high performance computing to post intern positions through our site. Positions can be created for a particular student, or open to qualified applicants.

To learn more about the Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale Education Program (BW-UPEP), and for information on how you can become involved, please visit our website here. Questions can be sent to jeffk@shodor.org.

Cross-Disciplinary Investigations in Imaging and Image Analyses Workshop, April 1-2, 2011

For those interested in a trip to Illinois in April, I wanted to invite you to the workshop that USC is co-hosting with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Hope to see you there!

Jennifer

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You are invited to attend Cross-Disciplinary Investigations in Imaging and Image Analyses Workshop: An NSF-Sponsored Workshop in Information Integration and Informatics. The Workshop will bring together multi-disciplinary stakeholders in the burgeoning field of imaging and image analysis to offer a unique opportunity for cross-collaboration and information-exchange by using computational inquiries to bridge humanities, arts, and social science research. Held at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana, Illinois on April 1 and 2, the workshop is hosted by the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the University of Illinois, and the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of South Carolina. It is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, NSF award number IIS-1043036.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Peter Bajcsy, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• Karen Cariani, WBGH Television
• David Eger, Google Books
• Chatham Ewing, University of Illinois
• Kim Fisher, Wildlife Conservation Society
• David Forsyth, University of Illinois
• Kevin Hamilton, University of Illinois
• Anne D. Hedeman, University of Illinois
• Chris Johanson, University of California, Los Angeles
• Eamonn Keogh, University of California, Riverside
• M. Simon Levin, the Surrey Art Gallery’s Tech Lab California
• Kalev Leetaru, University of Illinois
• Joy Malinar, University of Illinois
• Robert Markley, University of Illinois
• Michael Meredith, University of Sheffield
• Wayne Pitard, University of Illinois
• David Rumsey, President of Cartography Associates
• Lisa Snyder, University of California, Los Angeles

Cross-Disciplinary Investigations in Imaging and Image Analyses Workshop is free and open to the public. Registration for the Workshop entitles attendees to join conference organizers and speakers at a hosted lunch each day in addition to all conference materials. For further information, including the full agenda and to register, please visit http://www.ichass.illinois.edu/imaging/.

Congratulations Digital Humanities Fellows!

We begin today with the announcement of our 2010-2011 Digital Humanities Fellows Program award winners. The Digital Humanities Fellows Program seeks to reward faculty and graduate students exploring innovations in the digital humanities by providing support to promising projects that offer transformative potential in their home disciplines.

The 2010-2011 award winners are: Dr. Emily Brock, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Dr. Stanley Dubinsky, Professor of Linguistics, Department of English Language & Literature. Dr. Brock’s The Once and Future Wild: Digital History of an Oak Savanna will use multiple forms of information to create a spatial history of the environmental and human past of the Pleasant Valley Conservancy, a 300-acre oak savanna site in Southern Wisconsin. Dr. Dubinsky’s Wordify! continues preliminary development (in collaboration with Linguistics graduate student Lindsey Hudson and Computer Science Professor Duncan Buell) of a multi-platform linguistic application based on English word morphology into a robust suite of games and applications for K-12 language arts and second language acquisition. Dubinsky plans to develop Wordify! into a rich suite of language activities that will simultaneously entertain and educate students of language, providing them novel ways of understanding the language they are learning to use.

“The fellows selected for this inaugural year,” said Dr. David Lee Miller, Director of CDH, “represent the diversity of methods, approaches, and disciplinary pedagogies that are encompassed by Digital Humanities. Dr. Brock’s project combines environmental data with the technology of geographic information systems and with cultural narratives of human interactions in a way that environmental historians everywhere can learn from. Dr. Dubinsky’s project offers cutting-edge approaches to English language acquisition for upper elementary students and second-language users. CDH is pleased to support this kind of innovative research, which benefits the scholars' individual disciplines but also enriches the larger USC research community.”

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CDH had a very productive fall semester. We saw the launch of 10 new digital humanities projects that are generating some very impressive results and renewed our commitments to our existing efforts. We hosted our first open house, the first two speakers in this year's future knowledge series, welcomed new opportunities with the Digital Collections Library, the School of Library and Information Science, the A.C. Moore Herbarium, and the Simms Initative (to name just a few), as well as served as a campus-wide resource for undergraduate and graduate courses to educate them about what is possible in the digital humanities. The entire CDH staff would like to thank you for your support. It is greatly appreciated.

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To highlight some forthcoming digital humanities opportunities locally:

The Future Knowledge Series (sponsored by the Office of Information Technology) welcomes:

February 9th: Colin Allen speaking on "A Tale of Two Ontologies" (see attached poster- co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy)

March 15: Noah Wardrip-Fruin speaking on "Meaning What We Play"

Both lectures are at 4 pm in Lumpkin Auditorium in the Moore School of Business with receptions immediately following.

And nationally/internationally:

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011)
June 13-17, 2011 - Ottawa, Canada
http://www.jcdl2011.org
Hosted by the University of Ottawa
Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, and IEEE-CS TCDL

CALL FOR PAPERS
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The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries", including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions and organizations; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content; theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing; and theory and practice of use of managed content in science and education. Digital libraries are distinguished from information retrieval systems because they include more types of media, provide additional functionality and services, and include other stages of the information life cycle, from creation through use. Digital libraries also can be viewed as a new form of information institution or as an extension of the services libraries currently provide.

The theme for JCDL 2011 is "Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data", in recognition of the changes the digital age is now bringing to scholarship, broadly writ. Publishing models are changing, along with the breadth of digital material that must be managed coherently in the context of users forcing the move from information silos to a landscape of interconnected systems supporting scholarship for both research and education. Additionally in a number of disciplines we are seeing funding agency directives to include with primary scholarship those materials on which the scholarship is based such as data sets both in the sciences and humanities. Further, we are seeing more focus on requirements for managing data for use in the future by other scholars.

The intended community for this conference includes those interested in all aspects of digital libraries such as infrastructure; institutions; metadata; content; services; digital preservation; system design; scientific data management; workflows; implementation; interface design; human-computer interaction; performance evaluation; usability evaluation; collection development; intellectual property; privacy; electronic publishing; document genres; multimedia; social, institutional, and policy issues; user communities; and associated theoretical topics. JCDL welcomes submissions in these areas, and submissions associated with the JCDL 2011 theme of "Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data" are particularly welcome. The conference sessions, workshops and tutorials will cover all these aspects.

Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range of established and emerging disciplines and professions including computer science, information science, data science, librarianship, data management, archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, information technology, medicine, social sciences, education and humanities. Representatives from academe, government, industry, and others are invited to participate.

JCDL 2011 invites submissions of papers and proposals for posters, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops that will make the conference an exciting and creative event to attend. As always, the conference welcomes contributions from all the fields that intersect to enable Digital Libraries.

All contributions are to be submitted in electronic form via the JCDL 2011 submission Web page, following ACM http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html format guidelines and using the ACM template. Please submit all papers in PDF format.

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The Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) project is pleased to announce
an open call for statements of interest in participating in the Using
the OAC Model for Annotation Interoperability Workshop. The workshop
will be held 24-25 March 20011 in Chicago, IL and will provide an in-
depth introduction to the OAC data model and ontology for describing
scholarly annotations of Web-accessible information resources. Use
cases involving a range of scholarly annotation classes and target
media types will be presented. Participants will be asked to examine,
comment on, and provide feedback on how well the OAC data model and
framework intersects (or fails to intersect) with domain-specific
needs for scholarly annotation services and with existing discipline
or repository-specific annotation tools and services. By the end of
the day and a half workshop, attendees will be better prepared to
propose and undertake implementations of annotation tools and services
exploiting the OAC data model and ontology.

The workshop is planned for 9 AM March 24 through 1 PM March 25, 2011,
in Chicago, Illinois. Limited support is available to reimburse
invited participants for reasonable travel costs. Preliminary
statements of interest & use case briefs are due by January 24, 2011.
In the event of oversubscription, these briefs will be used to select
invitees; invitations will be issued by February 7. Please see
http://www.openannotation.org/documents/CallForWorkshopParticipation.pdf
for additional details and context; contact Tim Cole (t-
cole3@illinois.edu) or Jacob Jett (jjett2@illinois.edu) for further
information.

The Open Annotation Collaboration is supported by a grant from the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. OAC members include the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Maryland, the
University of Queensland (Australia), and the Los Alamos National
Laboratory.

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Call for Papers

The Second International Conference on Culture and Computing
(Culture and Computing 2011)

Date: October 20-22, 2011
Venue: The Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, Japan
http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/culture2011/

International communities have a myriad of problems around topics
such as: population demographic shifts, energy use and creation,
the environment, and food supply. It is necessary to build a
global consensus for resolving problems within these topic areas.
Unfortunately, there are difficulties in communication among
different cultures. Information and communication technologies
are required in order to overcome such difficulties.

There are various research directions in the relations between
culture and computing:
to archive cultural heritages via ICT (cf. digital archives),
to empower humanities researches via ICT (cf. digital humanities),
to create art and expressions via ICT (cf. media art),
to realize a culturally situated agent (cf. cultural agent),
to support multi-language, multi-cultural societies via ICT
(cf. intercultural collaboration), and to understand new cultures
born in the Internet and Web (cf. net culture).

The International Conference on Culture and Computing
(Culture & Computing) will be held in Kyoto, the cultural heart
of Japan, to provide an opportunity to share research issues and
discuss the future of culture and computing. To understand the
proceedings at the previous conference, please visit
http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/culture2010/index.html.

The second conference (Culture & Computing 2011) will be organized
with an exhibition on the integration of state of the art cultural
computing technologies and Japanese traditional culture,
along with a number of co-located events.

Papers are solicited on any aspect on the intersection of culture
and computing, but all papers are expected to be suitable for a
multidisciplinary audience. We have a single session Main Track
and a few parallel session Special Tracks. The Main Track will
present a collection of scientific or engineering research results.
Examples of suitable paper topics for the Main Track include:

•Archiving cultural heritages
•Information environments for humanity studies
•Art and design by information technologies
•Digital storytelling
•Intercultural communication and collaboration
•Culturally situated agents and simulations
•Game and culture
•Analysis of new culture in the Internet and Web
•Culture and brain science

The Special Tracks are collections of short papers, and are
organized in coordination with the Main Track for the purpose of
encouraging discussions in hot areas. We have Special Tracks for
"Digital Humanities," "Asian Culture based Media Art" and
"Computing and Music" at this conference.

Paper

Submitted papers must report original work that has not been
previously published. A full paper with a limit of six (6) pages
and a special trackpaper with a limit of two (2) pages, should be
submitted by the paper submission deadline. Papers should follow
the formatting instructions for publishing with IEEE Computer
Society's Conference Publishing Services.

Main Track papers (full papers) should be submitted electronically
with an abstract (150 words) via EasyChair at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=culture2011.
Submissions (PDF) must be written in English and must not exceed
6 pages in IEEE Standard template.

Special Track papers (short papers) should be submitted electronically
with an abstract (150 words) via EasyChair at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=culture2011sp.
Submissions (PDF) must be written in English and must not exceed
2 pages in IEEE Standard template.

All submitted papers will be reviewed by three distinguished
researchers in the area of culture and computing. Accepted papers
will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE
Computer Society and be included in the IEEE Computer Society
Digital Libraries (CSDL).

Important Dates

Main Track:
Deadline for titles and abstracts: April 20th, 2011
Deadline for papers for review: May 1st, 2011
Author notification: June 20th, 2011
Deadline for camera ready papers: July 20th, 2011

Special Track:
Deadline for titles and abstracts: May 20th, 2011
Deadline for papers for review: June 1st, 2011
Author notification: June 20th, 2011
Deadline for camera ready papers: July 20th, 2011

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For those looking for a fellowship opportunity:

FELLOWSHIP: TECHNOLOGY AND DEMOCRACY, CENTER OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA

The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia invites applications for the 2011-12 Ambrose Monell Foundation Fellowship in Technology and Democracy. The Monell Fellowship is one of eight fellowships offered as part of the Miller Center National Fellowship Program, which provides support for individuals completing their dissertations on American politics, domestic and foreign policy, and the impact of global affairs on the United States. In addition to conducting cutting edge scholarship, we address critical issues facing the United States by engaging a larger public in a discussion about American political development.

The Ambrose Monell Foundation Fellows work should inform these topics through an approach broadly centered at the crosscurrents of technology and democracy, perhaps addressing public affairs and policy issues such as energy, transportation, health care, the environment, new media, urban planning, or civic engagement. The 2010-2011 Ambrose Monell Fellow in Technology and Democracy, Francesca Ammon, is completing a dissertation that explores the cultural, ideological, and technological underpinnings of post-World War II Urban Renewal demolition and clearance. Read more about her work here.

The Ambrose Monell Foundation seeks to aid religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes around the world. In funding the Miller Centers Fellowship in Technology and Democracy, the Foundation is contributing to the broader dissemination of the newest and best scholarship on this increasingly important set of topics. The fellowship provides $20,000 grants to support one year of research and writing. Along with the fellowship grant, the Miller Center assists the fellow in choosing a senior scholar as a fellowship mentor who makes suggestions on the literature in which the fellow should frame the project, reads the fellows work, gives advice on research and provides constructive criticism over the course of the fellowship year.

The Miller Center encourages applicants from a broad range of disciplines, including but not limited to history, political science, policy studies, law, political economy, and sociology.

Requirements: An applicant must be (1) a Ph.D. candidate expecting to complete his or her dissertation by the conclusion of the fellowship year. Residence is strongly encouraged but not required. All fellows are expected to participate in and contribute to the intellectual discourse at the Center, as well as attend conferences in Fall 2011 and May 2012. These two conferences will provide a forum for presenting research and findings to the scholarly community at the Miller Center and the University of Virginia.

To Apply: Please complete our online application here. All applications must be submitted online by 1 February 2011. Applicants will be notified of the selection committees decision in April 2011. Inquiries should be directed to Anne Mulligan atacm8k@virginia.edu or 434-243-8726. Additional information is available at the Miller Centers website.

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As always, CDH is looking for promising research projects and opportunities in the Digital Humanities. Don't hesitate to let us know if we can aid your explorations in digital humanities.

We look forward to seeing you February 9th at Dr. Allen's talk.