National Endowment for the Humanities
DIGITAL HUMANITIES AWARDS
Announced: May 2008
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
Brown University — Providence, RI
Advanced Topics in TEI Encoding
Julia Flanders, Project Director
Outright: $196,000
To support a series of workshops for humanities faculty and graduate students to explore advanced uses of digital text encoding as an essential method in humanities scholarship.
University of Illinois, Urbana — Urbana, IL
Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HpC): Coordinating High Performance Computing Institutes and the Digital
Orville Burton, Project Director
Outright: $249,997
To support a total of nine institutes and one joint conference for humanities scholars, to be hosted by three different high-performance computer centers: the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
University of Southern California — Los Angeles, CA
Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-IML Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship
Holly Willis, Project Director
Outright: $200,000
To support a four-week summer institute to investigate scholarly research methods in the digital age, to include thematic discussion seminars and hands-on workshops in collaboration with technologists.
Contact: odh@neh.gov