Evans/Glasscock Digital Humanities Project Fellowship

This program is meant to offer significant but flexible assistance to faculty – as individuals or in collaborative teams – whose scholarly project depends on or is fundamentally inflected by information technology, digitization, and computer-aided research. The program is especially aimed at those embarked on or keen to embark on research in the humanities that is ‘born digital.’

• title of the project
• a 500-1000 word statement describing a) the nature of the project, b) the general uses to which the Evans/Glasscock funding will be directed, and c) the expected research outcome from this support, including grants to be sought, publications and presentations anticipated, and so on;
• an itemized budget;
• a curriculum vitae of no more than three pages, noting accomplishments and qualifications germane to the project at hand;
• contact information: email, campus address, telephone;
• description and amount of other sources of funding for this project, current, anticipated, and applied for.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to familiarize themselves with existing resources by contacting any of the following:

Center for the Study of Digital Libraries (contact furuta@cs.tamu.edu) College of Liberal Arts’ Digital Humanities Initiative (contact e-urbina@tamu.edu) Texas A&M University Libraries’ Digital Initiatives Research and Technology (contact di@tamu.edu)

A committee comprising faculty from various disciplines will evaluate applications on the basis of their originality, feasibility, and potential for external funding and for publication.

Recipients will be expected to give a presentation about their funded project as part of the Glasscock Center’s annual Digital Humanities Lecture Series, provide an account of how the funds awarded were expended, and submit a report on the progress this award made possible.

Please address questions about the application itself or about whether this program is well-suited to your project to James Rosenheim (j-rosenheim@tamu.edu or 845-8329). The deadline for applications is 5:00 p.m., Monday, 11 April 2008. They should be directed to the Glasscock Center, MS 4214 or sent electronically to glasscock@tamu.edu. Decisions will be announced by mid-May.