Submission Deadline for Fall Quarter 2010 Projects: Friday, 8/27/10
Full Proposal Guidelines (PDF)
The School of Humanities and Sciences and Academic Computing Services invite faculty and graduate students in all areas of the humanities to submit a research project proposal.
Projects will be selected on the basis of their significance and contribution to the scholar's disciplinary field, theoretical and methodological sophistication, creativity of approach and technical innovation.
Suggested topics and areas include, but are not limited to:
• advanced data visualization applications
• computer gaming and the humanities
• creativity, culture, and computing
• digital image design
• multimedia research
• textual analysis and text mining
Interdisciplinary projects are especially encouraged.
Proposals will be evaluated by members of the Digital Humanities Steering Group/review committee once quarterly, in fall, winter and spring, for project support to begin in the subsequent academic quarter.
Digital Humanities Steering Group
Stephen Hinton, Senior Associate Dean for Humanities & Arts
Franco Moretti, Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Aron Rodrigue, Director and Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities, Stanford Humanities Center
Richard Holeton, Director, Academic Computing Services
Kimberly Hayworth, Manager, Academic Technology Lab
Current Projects
Work on Mapping the Grand Tour (part of the Mapping the Republic of Letters) has spurred the creation of a network of historical travel in Italy during the 18th century, as well as the integration of historical maps and gazetteer data to discover patterns of travel based on social status, time period, nationality, et cetera.
Martin Evan's Literary London is being transitioned from a static Web 1.0 repository of knowledge about literary figures in London into a rich internet application running in Flash on a MySQL database, allowing for exploration of the connections between places, works and authors in London as well as integrating the scholarly narrative integral to traditional work.
The DHS position has also been involved with creating dynamic and static visualizations for the Mapping the Republic of Letters project, along with working on the data model and performing spatial analysis of historical change.