Call for Digital Humanities and Arts (DHA) Fellowship

CHA/CRDDS Faculty Fellowship in Digital Humanities and Arts

The Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) and Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship (CRDDS) have partnered on a new three-year fellowship program (2021-2024) to support faculty working in digital humanities and arts. We invite all faculty (tenure-track, tenured, instructors, and senior instructors) at CU Boulder interested in applying computational methods to or multimodal presentation of humanities and arts-related research questions on the Boulder campus to apply for a CHA/CRDDS Faculty Fellowship in Digital Humanities and Arts during the 2020-2021 academic year. A fellow will receive a semester free of teaching not to exceed two-course releases; a fellow can only receive one DHA fellowship during the three-year CHA-CRDDS partnership. We encourage applications from faculty across schools and colleges at CU Boulder, including from disciplines outside of humanities and arts; however, your project must be one that engages with arts and humanities archives/perspectives/theories/narratives/methodologies in a substantial way, as well as digital, computational, and/or multimodal tools and practices.

The selection committee will consider the intellectual merit of the project, its connection to the humanities and arts, the overall excellence of the applicant’s academic record, and the timeliness of the project in the applicant’s career.

Application Procedures

Complete items 1-5 below. Send items 1-4 as one .pdf file to Sharon Van Boven

  1. Cover letter (no more than 1 page), including a concise summary of the project accessible to general audiences

  2. Fellowship proposal (no more than 5 pages double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins) using clear writing appropriate for non-specialists and making a strong case for the importance of the project to reviewers outside your discipline. A strong proposal will describe the aims, significance, methods, and expected outcomes of the project, including all digital outputs. It will also highlight new or creative directions, future potential for payoff, or value/impact, and will tell a story about the work. 

    1. Considering the following in writing your statement will be helpful:

      1. Project Design:Does your project address all relevant issues in a form that offers a coherent engagement with your research? 

      2. Infrastructure and support: What infrastructure, support, or partnerships are necessary to complete your work, and are they accessible to you?

      3. Feasibility: Can you demonstrate that you will be able to make significant progress during your fellowship towards the timely completion of your scholarly project? Why will it be necessary to receive a two-course release from teaching to make significant progress?

      4. Qualifications: What past work has led you to take up this specific project at this point in your career? Highlight skill sets, collaborations, and scholarly work that directly addresses your ability to carry out the proposed project.

  3. Outline of the structure of your project (12-point font, 1-inch margins) including expected digital outputs (e.g. data, documentation, code, etc.) and file types. You can share artistic images a sound file, and/or include a website link if they would be useful to understanding your project

  4. Short CV or biosketch (no more than 4 pages)

  5. Two letters of support. One from your department chair (a brief paragraph stating support of the project, its timing, and noting approval of the two-course release) and one from a scholar in your field (preferably external). These should be emailed separately to sharon.vanboven@colorado.edu.

Deadline: 5:00 pm MT, Nov 15 (Sunday), 2020 

Expectations:

By March 30, 2021, the fellow must submit a short data management plan (1 page) detailing plans for curating data produced by their work. CRDDS offers data management plan assistance as well as the institutional repository for making outputs openly available.

By May 31, 2022, Fellows must submit a final report on research completed and plans for publication. During the academic year, Fellows will be invited to CHA and CRDDS-sponsored events. 

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