Mellon Digital Humanities Undergraduate Fellowship
The Mellon DH Undergraduate Fellowship is a broadly-defined position to contribute to DH teaching and research in many forms. Fellowships last one academic year but may be renewed. Fellows will report to Mackenzie Brooks, Assistant Professor and Digital Humanities Librarian.
Depending on their skills and interests, students will be expected to perform some the following:
- Serve as lab assistants in DH courses with lab components or DH studio courses.
- Staff the future DH Space (potentially after working hours) and serve as tutor/mentor for students seeking * assistant on DH assignments.
- Participate in outreach activities with and without DHAT/DHWG members (ex: visiting classes, connecting with student groups).
- Contribute to the DH @ WLU blog on a regular basis.
- Develop personal DH research projects or contribute to library DH projects.
- Collaborate/mentor with other fellows or student groups on specific projects.
Fall 2017 fellows:
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Laurel Myers
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Chandler Wickers
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Will Tucker
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Arlette Hernandez
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Florence As It Was research assistants:
- Aidan Valente
- Colby Gilley
- MC Greenleaf
- Katherine Dau
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Understanding Human Trafficking research assistants:
- Cat Spencer
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Mapping the Scottish Reformation research assistants:
- Caroline Nowlin
Winter 2017 fellows:
- Arlette Hernandez - returning from Winter 2016 after studying abroad in England.
- Will Tucker - politics major interested in text analysis of email archives.
- Cat Spencer - research assistant on Prof. Stephanie Sandberg's Understanding Human Trafficking project.
- Sonia Brozak - research assistant on Prof. George Bent's Florence As It Was project.
- Miles Bent - research assistant on Prof. George Bent's Florence As It Was project.
- Sam Joseph - research assistant on Prof. George Bent's Florence As It Was project.
Fall 2016 fellows:
- Abdur Khan - working on a Jekyll plugin for converting TEI to markdown. Also learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails to work with the Huon d'Auvergne project.
- Aidan Valente - working on a Jekyll plugin for converting TEI to markdown digital archiving.
- Haley Soutter - working on strategic communciations in the University Library.