This list of past Digital Matters Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees shows the variety of disciplines and digital humanities research Digital Matters supports through its fellowship and faculty grantee program. For more information on the funded programs Digital Matters offers please see the links below.
Digital Matters Faculty Grant
Digital Matters Graduate Residency Fellowship
Isabelle FreilingAssistant Professor, Department of Communication
Spring 2026
AI’s Societal Threats in Support for AI Research and AI Regulation
Matt BassoAssistant Professor, Professor of History and Ethnic, Gender, and Disability
Spring 2026
Using AI to Examine the Oral Histories of 10,000 Veterans
Daycy GomezPhD Student, Department of Sociology
Spring 2026
Meagan ArthurPhD Student, English and Creative Writing
Spring 2026
Working Title “Afterboom”
Steven ChodoriwskyAssistant Professor, Multi-Disciplinary Design
Fall 2025
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Theater Platform
Luc VanierProfessor, School of Dance
Fall 2025
Digitally Reconstructing Ballet Pedagogy: AI Tools for Embodied Learning and Student Agency
Wanda PillowProfessor of Gender Studies
Spring 2025
Formations & Futures of Women Studies/Gender Studies: Uncovering Hidden Histories
Jane HatterAssociate Professor of Musicology
Spring 2025
Echoes of Women’s Musical Voices in Visual and Material Evidence from 1450-1550
Erin GrahamAssociate Professor, Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies
Spring 2025
Formations & Futures of Women Studies/Gender Studies: Uncovering Hidden Histories
American West Fellow
Fall 2025
Cultural Impact of mining in Utah’s Oquirrh Mountains
PhD Candidate in Writing and Rhetoric
Fall 2025
Analyzing Online Grief narratives for Therapeutic and Educational insights
Graduate Student in City and Metropolitan planning
Fall 2025
Mapping Displacement and Reimagining Development: A Mixed-Methods Digital Exploration of Housing Justice in Salt Lake City
Graduate Student in Communication
Spring 2025
The White Supremacist Next Door: A Digital Ethnography of the Far-Right and Hyperlocal Political Strategy
Pablo Cruz-AyalaGraduate Student in Fine Arts
Spring 2025
Undocumented Stories Told through Virtual Reality: Virtual Gallery Praxis of Art, Research, and Narrative
Allison McCormackOriginal Cataloger for Special Collections
Spring 2023
BIPOC and Religious Minorities Archival Redescription Pilot
Ana AtunesAssistant Professor, Gender Studies
Spring 2023
TikTok Taught Me: Social Media & Sex Education in the Post-pandemic Era
Kevin CoeProfessor, Communication
Fall 2023
News Coverage of U.S. Mass Shootings, 2013 – 2022: Comparative Insights from Automated and Manual Content Analyses
Lien Fan ShenAssociate Professor, Film & Media Arts
Fall 2023
Empowering Comic Artists with DALL-E, AI Image Generating Program
Kaylee AlexanderDM / ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD in Art History & Visual Culture
Spring 2023
The US Cemetery Audit
Laurie LarsonGraduate Student in Architecture
Spring 2023
From the Brine: Salinification as a Subject for Additive Fabrication
Graduate Student in Environmental Humanities
Spring 2023
Digital Ecologies of Access: Using Accessible Web Design to Archive Art-based Environmental Health Narratives
Graduate Student in Environmental Humanities
Fall 2023
For the Birds? : Place Attachment and Spatial Processes at Lee Kay Ponds
Eliana MasseyUndergraduate Student in Environmental Humanities
Spring 2023
Pasifika Presence at the U
Callie AvondetUndergraduate Student (Intern for Maile Arvin)
Fall 2023
Nā Lei Poina ʻOle (The Children Never Forgotten)
Morgan DoaneUndergraduate Student in Multi-Disciplinary Design
Fall 2023
American Energy Topology
Theadora SoterUndergraduate Student (Intern for Crystal Rudds)
Fall 2023
Mapping the Projects
Margaret WanProfessor, Chinese Literature and Cultural History
Fall 2022
Mapping the Traditional Chinese Novel
Eric HerschthalAssistant Professor, History
Fall 2022
Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change
Kaylee AlexanderDM / ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD in Art History & Visual Culture
Fall 2022
The US Cemetery Audit
Eliza McKinneyGraduate Student in the Department of History
Fall 2022
Womyn’s World: Lesbian Community in 90’s Salt Lake City
John SutterGraduate Student in the Department of Film and Media Studies
Fall 2022
What Your Weather App is Hiding from You
Eliana MasseyUndergraduate Student in Environmental Humanities
Fall 2022
Climate Hope
Ashton ReederUndergraduate Student in Multidisciplinary Design
Fall 2022
Dataveillance
Associate Professor, School of Dance
Fall 2021
Nomadic Performance Technologies for Dance-making in the 21st Century
Assistant Professor, Communication
Spring 2021
Indigenous Cryptocurrency: Finance Capital and the Digital Ghosts of Empire
Assistant Professor, Film & Media Arts
Spring 2021
Digital Companion to Book Project #Representation Matters: Mapping Gender, Race, and Sexuality on Twitter
Matthew BassoAssociate Professor, History & Gender Studies
Fall 2021
Using Digital Tools to See the World War II Home Front in a New Way
Associate Librarian, Marriott Library
Fall 2021
Opening Artists’ Books: Interactive Website to Extend & Sustain Access to Artists’ Books
Danielle WatersGraduate student in Teaching-Fine Arts
Spring 2021
Youth Activist Art Digital Database
John FlynnDM / American West Center Graduate Fellow
PhD student in History
Spring 2021
Native Places Atlas
Daniel UncapherPhD student in Creative Writing
Spring 2021
Open Wounds
Trevor SmithGraduate student in Communication
Fall 2021
Algorithmic Content: An Unforeseen Force in Digital Media
Assistant Professor, Multi-Disciplinary Design
Fall 2020
Resonance Map
Aislinn McDougallVisiting Assistant Professor, English
Spring 2020
Reflections of Ikahuak: Negotiating Sovereignty & Community via Decolonial Digital Mapping Strategies
Marnie Powers-TorreyAssociate Librarian, Marriott Library
Fall 2020
Interactive Website to Extend & Sustain Access to Artists’ Books
Associate Librarian, Marriott Library
Fall 2020
Negative Space: Illustration as Historical Engagement
DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow
PhD student in History
Spring 2020
Native Places Atlas
Megan WeissGraduate student in History
Spring 2020
3D Printing Utah’s Material History – Heritage Hyperownership in Museums and Classrooms
John FlynnDM / American West Center Graduate Fellow
PhD student in History
Fall 2020
Native Places Atlas
Max SchleicherPhD student in English
Fall 2020
Using Stylometry to Analyze Poetry Blurbs and Reviews
Lourdes AlbertoAssociate Professor, English
Spring 2019
Indigenous Latina/o/x Archives
Wendy WischerAssistant Professor, Art & Art History
Spring 2019
Battlegrounds
Anna NeatrourAssistant Librarian, Marriott Library
Fall 2019
Kennecott Personnel Mining Records Transcription Pilot
Elizabeth CallawayDM Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD in English
Spring 2019
Graduate student in Environmental Humanities
Spring 2019
Water You Doing? Finding Place in the Digital
PhD candidate in Creative Writing
Spring 2019
A Mountain Pine Script
PhD candidate in English
Fall 2019
Bots: Co-Creating Digital Narratives
DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow
PhD student in History
Fall 2019
Native Places Atlas
Carlos Santana
Jon Mills