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December 18, 2020
ANNOUNCEMENT: Summer Support for Faculty, Graduate Students, and Research Staff
APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 19, 2021
APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 19, 2021
The Price Lab and Penn Libraries are now accepting proposals for the Summer 2021 Project Development Awards. Applicants may be either faculty, research staff or graduate students from the School of Arts & Sciences. Faculty from other schools at Penn may apply, provided their project will involve some collaboration with faculty or students in SAS. Graduate Student applicants must name a faculty advisor and/or collaborator on the project, and include that faculty member's contact information as part of their application.
Under the aegis of these awards, the Price Lab collaborates with humanities researchers at Penn as well as Penn Libraries and and student programmers to support the prototyping and/or development of digital projects across humanistic disciplines. The goals of this program are to:
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provide an opportunity for SAS faculty, students, and staff to engage in the production of original digital research and scholarship.
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provide students with transferable technical skills and experience in collaborative project building;
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build capacity for experimental DH work at Penn.
We define Digital Humanities very broadly and have experience supporting text mining, textual editing, data curation, new media and gaming studies, GIS mapping and other data visualization techniques, image analysis, and sound studies. To see examples of projects we support, visit the Projects At Price Lab page.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion in collections, publications, and collaborations. This means, in part, prioritizing underrepresented and unjustly marginalized voices and perspectives. In your application, you will be asked to explain how your project will help us meet this commitment.
Applicants may be either faculty, staff or students from the School of Arts & Sciences. Faculty from other schools at Penn may apply, provided their project will involve some collaboration with faculty or students in SAS. Student applicants must name a faculty advisor or collaborator on the project, and include that faculty member's contact information as part of their application.
We understand digital humanities to be a diffuse and constantly evolving set of practices with no clear boundaries and we are prepared to consider all applications on their merits and to provide feedback in every case. If you are interested, please contact Stewart Varner, Managing Director of the Price Lab, (svarner@upenn.edu) to schedule a pre-proposal consultation.
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June 8, 2020
Prioritizing Public Digital Humanities Projects
We have been deeply saddened by the images of police brutality against Black people and protesters we have seen in recent days.
We have been deeply saddened by the images of police brutality against Black people and protesters we have seen in recent days. We mourn the loss of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and the countless others who have been terrorized and killed by systems designed to enforce white supremacy.
At the same time, we have been inspired by the courage and creativity of activists who demand an end to police brutality specifically and white supremacy generally. As Frederick Douglass said, “power concedes nothing without a demand.” Over the past week we have seen small but exciting hints that these efforts have succeeded in compelling more people to confront the reality and the history of anti-Black racism and to add their voices to the chorus demanding change.
If you are a researcher in the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn who has been thinking about how your own work will rise to the challenge of this historical moment, the Price Lab for Digital Humanities is here to help. We have funds as part of a four-year grant from the Mellon Foundation and will prioritize humanistic research projects that use digital tools and methods to benefit people beyond the academy and particularly in the Philadelphia region. If you or someone you know has an idea, contact Stewart Varner (svarner@upenn.edu) to discuss how to create a proposal.
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May 20, 2020
New course offered in our DH Minor Curriculum!
The Price Lab collaborated with the English department, the Cinema and Media Studies program, and SAS Computing to launch
The Price Lab collaborated with the English department, the Cinema and Media Studies program, and SAS Computing to launch a new DH class on Digital Fakes and Forgeries. Taught by Elizabeth Scheyder of SAS Computing’s Instructional Technology division, the class will involve hands-on work to detect and create fake images, and will count toward the DH Minor in the College.
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October 31, 2019
Digital Humanities Minor spring 2020
The Price Lab is pleased to announce the spring 2019-2020 roster of classes for the Digital Humanities Minor.
The Price Lab is pleased to announce the spring 2019-2020 roster of classes for the Digital Humanities Minor. The Digital Humanities Minor guides students through three tiers of courses that augment their disciplinary studies in the humanities with advanced digital research techniques and in-depth engagement with theoretical and practical questions raised by digital humanities. By successfully completing the requirements of the minor, students will develop the insight to be both thoughtful users of technology and sophisticated critics of digital work. Students not majoring in humanities fields are also welcome to complete the minor.
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March 12, 2019
Mellon Summer Doctoral Research Fellowships
The Price Lab is pleased to announce Mellon Summer Research Fellowships for humanities graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Price Lab is pleased to announce Mellon Summer Research Fellowships for humanities graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. The fellowships have been designed to allow students to take advantage of the relatively less-hectic summer months to pursue work in the digital humanities. Selected students may use the fellowship to engage in independent study, attend training institutes, or make significant headway on a research project.
Fellows will receive awards of up to $6,000 paid in three installments of $2,000; one at the beginning of the summer, one after the completion of a short progress report in the middle of the summer, and one after the submission of a final report at the end of the summer.
To apply, please submit a 500 word proposal and a copy of your current CV to price-lab@sas.upenn.edu by midnight April 8, 2019.
Please direct any questions to Stewart Varner, Managing Director of the Price Lab: svarner@sas.upenn.edu