Digital Matter’s Fellowship program includes a Faculty Grant Program and a Graduate Student Residency Fellowship during Fall and Spring semesters. Both aim to support and encourage researchers to challenge and extend the boundaries of their fields through digital methods, pedagogy, and tools.
Faculty Grant Program
The Faculty Grant Program provides research funding to Tenure-line and Career-line faculty in the Humanities, Fine Arts, Architecture + Planning, and Marriott Library working in Digital Studies, broadly defined, which challenge and extend their fields.
Awardees receive $5,000 in research funding to be used for supplies, equipment, software, computing, research assistants, etc.
Grant funds cannot be used for faculty salaries (summer or academic year); travel that is not directly related to project research (e.g., conferences cannot be supported by this grant), funding to purchase society/group memberships, consultants, or office equipment unless specifically justified. To learn more about our Faculty Grant and Exhibition/Performance Faculty Grant program please look at our last call for applications. Our call for applications go out in early mid-Spring semester for the Fall program and early Fall semester for the Spring program.
Featured Faculty Projects
- “News Coverage of U.S. Mass Shootings 2013–2022,” Kevin Coe (Fall 2023)
- “BIPOC and Religious Minorities Archival Redescription Pilot,” Allison McCormack (Spring 2023)
- “TikTok Taught Me: Social Media & Sex Education in the Post-pandemic Era,” Ana Antunes (Spring 2023)
Graduate Student Residency Fellowship & Graduate Grant
The Graduate Fellowship and Grant Program provides graduate students in the Humanities, Fine Arts, and Architecture+Planning an opportunity to work on a research project in Digital Studies, broadly defined, which challenge and extend their respective fields. The fellowship consists of a semester-long residency.
Our call for applications go out in early mid-Spring semester for the Fall program and early Fall semester for the Spring program.
Featured Graduate Projects
- “For the Birds?: Wastelanding at Lee Kay Ponds,” Maggie Scholle (Fall 2023)
- “Digital Ecologies of Access: Using Accessible Web Design to Archive Art-based Environmental Health Narratives,” Natalie Slater (Spring 2023)
- “From the Brine: Salinification as a Subject for Additive Fabrication,” Laurie Larson (Spring 2023)