Proposals for CLASS Collaborative Research Fellowships are now being accepted! The deadline for proposals is February 26, 2018.
All CLASS fellowships will be awarded by March 9, 2018.
Please contact DHi Director Janet Simons (jsimons@hamilton.edu) with any questions or to set up a CLASS project proposal discussion.
The Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) offers three fellowships a year to students who wish to explore collaborative interdisciplinary models and research methods. Culture, Language, Arts & Society Scholars (CLASS) work on a component of a researcher's larger research agenda to leverage the potential of technology to access, ask questions of, manipulate, and present information. As co-researchers and co-creators of knowledge, CLASS students are expected to develop and learn digital research approaches to complex interdisciplinary humanities questions. DHi experts collaborate with CLASS faculty and student researchers throughout the 15 months of the CLASS award to develop and implement digital research approaches.
Faculty and sophomore students apply jointly for CLASS fellowships. Faculty propose a research project that would benefit from digital research approaches and work with DHi to integrate student collaborators into their research process. DHi provides consultation, expertise, skills development, funding, and project management to facilitate collaborative digital scholarship with the CLASS student. Students must express interest in sustained collaborative research (a 15 month commitment) that integrates digital methods and results in multimodal presentations and/or publications. To apply, Faculty/Student collaborators submit a two-to-three page proposal of the research project and the research question(s) to be explored by the student. CLASS students are required to present their contributions to the research project to both the Hamilton Community and to a broader off-campus audience during the 15 month program (see former CLASS students and their projects).
The CLASS program is a 15 month commitment that includes two-summer internships, an immersive DH summer institute the first summer, research during the academic year between the summers, and research presentations on campus and at conference(s).
The CLASS fellowship includes the following:
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Student stipend of $4000.00 for the first & second summer of research on campus at Hamilton College (~10 weeks each summer).
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Funding in the first summer for the student to attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria in Victoria British Columbia in June. Followed by research project work at Hamilton with faculty research project director and DHi
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Instruction in DH methods and approaches specfiic to the faculty research project
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Academic year - work up to 10 hours a week (paid hourly) with faculty research director on components of their long term digital research agenda.
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Second summer: $4000 student stipend for continued research on the same long term research project.
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DHi consultation and connections to DH expertise locally, nationally, & internationally
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Project Management from initial planning through the 15 month CLASS fellowship
CLASS applications for the 2018-2019 cohort will be accepted until February 26, 2018. All CLASS fellowships will be awarded by March 9, 2018.
Please contact DHi Director Janet Simons (jsimons@hamilton.edu) with any questions or to set up a CLASS project proposal discussion.