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Fellowships and Professional Development

Student Fellowships

2022-2023 applications were due November 1st, 2022. 

The UNF Digital Humanities Institute (DHI) seeks student proposals for internships for projects related to the Digital Humanities. The DHI promotes collaboration on interdisciplinary projects that combine the use of technology with materials and methodologies from the Humanities, Fine Arts and  Social Sciences. UNF faculty and staff may develop an internship and solicit students for projects, they may also assist students in designing and applying for internships to work on projects for which their mentors are also submitting applications for the Faculty Fellows program. 2022-23 interns are required to present at the 2023 Digital Projects Showcase or another DHI sponsored program. All UNF students are welcome to apply, but priority will be given to students with DHI-affiliated faculty mentors. 

Faculty Fellowships

2022-2023 applications were due November 1st, 2022.

The UNF Digital Humanities Institute (DHI) seeks proposals for faculty fellowships for projects related to the Digital  Humanities. Fellowships may be used to develop current or future DH projects, to support faculty while  applying for external funding, to set up initiatives, purchase equipment, or a combination of  the above. All UNF faculty are welcome to apply, but priority will be given to DHI-affiliated faculty. 2022-23 fellows are required to present at the 2023 Digital Projects Showcase or another DHI-sponsored program.

Summer Professional Development & Grants

Applications for funding for summer professional development opportunities were due May 1st, 2023. Please email the current DHI director for more information.

The UNF Digital Humanities Institute (DHI) seeks to fund a select number of faculty and students to attend summer professional development opportunities and support DH activities at UNF. 

  • Student Fellowships

    Matthew Austin for serving as a digital editing assistant with the project “North Florida Editorial Workshop” (McCarl, faculty mentor)

    Rook Breede for the project “Embroidering for Peace and Memory Digital Archive” (Lopez, faculty mentor)

    Janaya Ferrer for the project “Editing the Eartha M. M. White Collection” (McCarl, faculty mentor)

    Alexandria Kledzik for a research project on the effects of repurposing archival footage in documentary filmmaking (J. Smith, faculty mentor)

    Susan Swiatosz's student for digitizing the photographs in the Eartha M. M. White Collection (Swiatosz, faculty mentor)

    Congratulations to the award recipients and thank you for your contributions to the DHI! Sincerest thanks to the 2022-23 Proposal Review Committee!
  • Faculty Fellowships

    Jessica Chandras for the project “Florida Dialect Project: Language and Identity in Contemporary Florida”

    Andrea Adhara Gaytán Cuesta for the project “Enciclopedia del Cine Glitch en Latinoamérica”

    Kailan S. Sindelar for a project on salinization education through physically immersive visualizations. 

    Scott F. Jones for a project on salinization education through physically immersive visualizations. 

    Congratulations to the award recipients and thank you for your contributions to the DHI! Sincerest thanks to the 2022-23 Proposal Review Committee!

  • Summer Professional Development

    Summer Development Grant Recipients

    Ángeles Fernandez Cifuentes & students - "Alonso de Barros’s Courtly Philosophy: Of Cervantes, Board Games, and OER in the Classroom"

    Chris Baynard - "Mapping the Continent: DHI/Geospatial field methods abroad in Spain and Portugal”

    Professional Development Awardees

    Alexandria Kledzik (Undergraduate), participant in UPenn's Dream Lab 2023

  • Student Fellowships

    Brianna Armenta for the project “Voces y Caras: Hispanic Communities of North Florida”

    Amelia Dixon for the creation of pedagogical and development materials about local African American history

    Katie Anagnostou for a research project and white paper about Mrs. Ninah Cummer

    Joshua Smith for “The Viola Muse Project”

    Denise I. Bossy's student for the project “Outline of Proposal DH Project: Indigenous Northeast Florida”

    Congratulations to the award recipients and thank you for your contributions to the DHI! Sincerest thanks to the 2021-22 Proposal Review Committee!

  • Faculty Fellowships

    Marie W. Larose for the project “Building a Digital Archive of Haitian Folktales within the Haitian Diaspora”

    Jacqueline Meier for the project “Initiating ZooMAP: the Zooarchaeology of Mycenaean Artisans Project”

    Denise I. Bossy for the project “Outline of Proposal DH Project: Indigenous Northeast Florida”

    Jelena Brezjanovic Shogren for the project “Virtual Fieldwork: Using Virtual Reality (VR) in Anthropology”

    Clayton McCarl for the project “The Viola Muse Project”

    Tru Leverette for the project “The Viola Muse Project”

    Laura Heffernan for the project “The Viola Muse Project”

    Congratulations to the award recipients and thank you for your contributions to the DHI! Sincerest thanks to the 2021-22 Proposal Review Committee!

  • Summer Professional Development

    Professional Development Awardees

    Jessica Borusky (UNF Galleries), participant in UPenn's Dream Lab 2022

    Susan Swiatosz (Special Collections), participant in UPenn's Dream Lab 2022

    Jordyn Bowen (Undergraduate), participant in UPenn's Dream Lab 2022

  • How do I apply for a student fellowship?

    Students who are interested in a fellowship should have either:

    1. a proposal for a project related to DHI studies with a faculty mentor
    2. have an interest in an existing fellowship offered by DHI-affiliated faculty mentor.

    Call for proposals are requested by the DHI director during the fall semesters. For more information, please contact the current DHI director. 

  • How do I apply for a faculty fellowship?
    Faculty who are interested in a fellowship should have a proposal for a DHI-related project. Call for proposals are requested by the DHI director during the fall semesters. For more information, please contact the current DHI director.
  • What are the options for summer professional development?

    Opportunities for summer professional development change every year. Some previous and recurring opportunities include: 

    Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI): A Place for Open Digital Scholarship

    Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) is an annual digital scholarship training institute that takes place at the University of Victoria (and online in 2023). Every summer, DHSI brings together faculty, staff, and students from the arts, humanities, library, and archives communities as well as independent scholars and participants from areas beyond. DHSI provides a community-based environment for discussing and learning about new technologies and how they influence teaching, research, creation, and preservation in different disciplines. Around 800-900 participants attend this time of intensive coursework, seminars, and lectures, where participants share ideas and methods as well as develop expertise in advanced technologies. Please consult the DHSI website for more information.

    UPenn’s DreamLab

    University of Pennsylvania's DreamLab is a week-long digital humanities training opportunity hosted by the University of Pennsylvania and designed to help humanists become more confident and thoughtful users, creators, and critics of digital technology. There are several courses to choose from, each of which combines technology instruction with practical application. Dream Lab is open to everyone but has been designed especially to serve early-stage scholars aspiring to be teaching faculty, research librarians, and archivists. Check out UPenn's DreamLab website for more information. 

    Summer Development Grants

    The Digital Humanities Institute announced a new category of funding awards in the fall of 2022: Summer Development Grants. These grants will fund UNF faculty and staff members to work individually or in teams on longer-term projects that relate to the future of the DHI and support its mission to promote innovative interdisciplinary research and teaching involving digital methods and tools at UNF. These grants can cover  digital training, outreach projects, the development of new courses for the DH minor or graduate certificate, or the development of larger grant proposals that would benefit the DHI or its affiliated projects. For more information, please contact the current DHI director.