Professor Dan Smail awarded 2015 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship
In its tenth annual competition for the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships, the American Council of Learned Societies has made seven awards to a diverse cohort of scholars pursuing groundbreaking digital scholarship. Selected from a highly competitive field of applicants, the awardees will dedicate a year to projects that further the digital transformation of humanistic research. The program is generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The 2015 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellows and project titles:
• Pramit Chaudhuri (Associate Professor of Classics, Dartmouth College) Computational Analysis of Intertextuality in Classical Literature
• Ryan Cordell (Assistant Professor of English, Northeastern University) Global Viral Texts: Mapping the Circulation of Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Literature across Oceans and Languages
• Kim Gallon (Assistant Professor of History, Purdue University, West Lafayette) The Black Press Born-Digital Project
• Marit MacArthur (Associate Professor of English, California State University, Bakersfield) Poetry Performance and Pitch Tracking: Tools for Sound Studies
• Natalie Phillips (Assistant Professor of English, Michigan State University) The Neuroscience of Reading: Integrating Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition
• Daniel Smail (Professor of History, Harvard University) The Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe
• Daniel Trueman (Professor of Music, Princeton University) Scordatura: On Re-Mapping (and Mapping) the Body to Sound
Further information on this year's fellows and their projects is available on the ACLS website.
The American Council of Learned Societies, a private, nonprofit federation of 72 national scholarly organizations, is the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences. Advancing scholarship by awarding fellowships and strengthening relations among learned societies is central to ACLS’s work. In 2015, ACLS will award more than $15 million to over 300 scholars across a variety of humanistic disciplines. For more information, visit www.acls.org.