Fellows & Grantees

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

Faculty Grantees

Allison McCormack

Original Cataloger for Special Collections
Spring 2023
BIPOC and Religious Minorities Archival Redescription Pilot

Ana Atunes

Assistant Professor, Gender Studies
Spring 2023
TikTok Taught Me: Social Media & Sex Education in the Post-pandemic Era

Lien Fan Shen

Associate Professor, Film & Media Arts
Fall 2023
Empowering Comic Artists with DALL-E, AI Image Generating Program

Postdoctoral Fellows

Alexander headshotKaylee Alexander

DM / ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD in Art History & Visual Culture
Spring 2023
The US Cemetery Audit

Graduate Fellows

Laurie Larson

Graduate Student in Architecture
Spring 2023
From the Brine: Salinification as a Subject for Additive Fabrication

Natalie Slater

Graduate Student in Environmental Humanities
Spring 2023
Digital Ecologies of Access: Using Accessible Web Design to Archive Art-based Environmental Health Narratives

Maggie Scholle

Graduate Student in Environmental Humanities
Fall 2023
For the Birds? : Place Attachment and Spatial Processes at Lee Kay Ponds

Undergraduate Interns

Eliana Massey

Undergraduate Student in Environmental Humanities
Spring 2023
Pasifika Presence at the U

Callie Avondet

Undergraduate Student (Intern for Maile Arvin)
Fall 2023
Nā Lei Poina ʻOle (The Children Never Forgotten)

Morgan Doane

Undergraduate Student in Multi-Disciplinary Design
Fall 2023
American Energy Topology

Theadora Soter

Undergraduate Student (Intern for Crystal Rudds)
Fall 2023
Mapping the Projects

Faculty Grantees

Luke Leither

Luke Leither

Fine Arts & Architecture Librarian
Fall 2022
Revealing Topolski’s Chronicle

Margaret WanMargaret Wan

Professor, Chinese Literature and Cultural History
Fall 2022
Mapping the Traditional Chinese Novel

Eric HerschthalEric Herschthal

Assistant Professor, History
Fall 2022
Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change

Postdoctoral Fellows

Alexander headshotKaylee Alexander

DM / ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD in Art History & Visual Culture
Fall 2022
The US Cemetery Audit

Graduate Fellows

Eliza McKinneyEliza McKinney

Graduate Student in the Department of History
Fall 2022
Womyn’s World: Lesbian Community in 90’s Salt Lake City

John SutterJohn Sutter

Graduate Student in the Department of Film and Media Studies
Fall 2022
What Your Weather App is Hiding from You

Undergraduate Interns

Eliana Massey

Undergraduate Student in Environmental Humanities
Fall 2022
Climate Hope

Ashton Reeder

Undergraduate Student in Multidisciplinary Design
Fall 2022
Dataveillance

Exhibition/Performance Faculty Grantees

Jaclyn Wright

Jaclyn Wright

Assistant Professor, Art & Art History, College of Fine Arts
Spring 2021
Marked

Eric Handman

Eric Handman

Associate Professor, School of Dance
Fall 2021
Nomadic Performance Technologies for Dance-making in the 21st Century

Faculty Grantees

Ashley Cordes

Ashley Cordes

Matthew BassoMatthew Basso

Associate Professor, History & Gender Studies
Fall 2021
Using Digital Tools to See the World War II Home Front in a New Way

Marnie Powers-Torrey

Marnie Powers-Torrey

Associate Librarian, Marriott Library
Fall 2021
Opening Artists’ Books: Interactive Website to Extend & Sustain Access to Artists’ Books

Exhibition/Performance Graduate Student Grantees

Danielle WatersDanielle Waters

Graduate student in Teaching-Fine Arts
Spring 2021
Youth Activist Art Digital Database

Graduate Fellows

John Flynn

DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow
PhD student in History
Spring 2021
Native Places Atlas

Daniel Uncapher

PhD student in Creative Writing
Spring 2021
Open Wounds

Trevor Smith

Graduate student in Communication
Fall 2021
Algorithmic Content: An Unforeseen Force in Digital Media

Exhibition/Performance Faculty Grantees

Milad Mozari

Milad Mozari

Assistant Professor, Multi-Disciplinary Design
Fall 2020
Resonance Map

Faculty Grantees

Aislinn McDougallAislinn McDougall

 

Carlos SantanaCarlos Santana

Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Spring 2020
Whose Anthropocene?

 

Marnie Powers-TorreyMarnie Powers-Torrey

Associate Librarian, Marriott Library
Fall 2020
Interactive Website to Extend & Sustain Access to Artists’ Books

 

Todd Samuelson

Todd Samuelson

Associate Librarian, Marriott Library
Fall 2020
Negative Space: Illustration as Historical Engagement

 

Graduate Fellows

Jeff Turner

DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow
PhD student in History
Spring 2020
Native Places Atlas

John Flynn

DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow
PhD student in History
Fall 2020
Native Places Atlas

Max Schleicher

Faculty Grantees

Lourdes AlbertoLourdes Alberto

Associate Professor, English
Spring 2019
Indigenous Latina/o/x Archives

Wendy WischerWendy Wischer

Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
Spring 2019
Battlegrounds

Jon MillsJon Mills

Assistant Professor, Multi-Disciplinary Design
Fall 2019
Inhabitable Research

Anna NeatrourAnna Neatrour

Assistant Librarian, Marriott Library
Fall 2019
Kennecott Personnel Mining Records Transcription Pilot

Postdoctoral Fellows

Elizabeth CallawayElizabeth Callaway

DM Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD in English
Spring 2019

Graduate Fellows

Tiana Birrell

Graduate student in Environmental Humanities
Spring 2019
Water You Doing? Finding Place in the Digital

Jace Brittain

Jace Brittain

PhD candidate in Creative Writing
Spring 2019
A Mountain Pine Script

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Maria Alberto

PhD candidate in English
Fall 2019
Bots: Co-Creating Digital Narratives

Jeff Turner

DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow
PhD student in History
Fall 2019
Native Places Atlas