The event will be recorded, so stay tuned!

Jason Rhody, Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment of the Humanities<http://www.neh.gov> in the Office of Digital Humanities<http://www.neh.gov/odh> will participate in a grant information session and mock-panel review on Monday, March 26th in the Digital Humanities Lounge, Blocker 246.

8:45 AM – 10:00 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 to 11:00 a.m. – twenty minute sessions to meet with Jason Rhody
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Discussion of NEH, the Office of Digital Humanities as well as all other NEH programs
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Mock grant review panel – strategies for application-writing

Though Jason works in the Office of Digital Humanities, he represents the NEH office in general.  ANYONE interested in applying for an NEH grant of any sort may contact Mary Farrington to set up an individual meeting.  Some meeting times are available on Tuesday morning, March 27, as well.

http://ahh.sagepub.com/content/current.

The appointee’s responsibilities include working with the Director to initiate and develop an internal research program and facilities (including a new digital humanities laboratory), actively engaging external partners (including other research programs, educational institutions, and leaders in the technology industries, securing supplemental funding from such external agencies as NEH, Mellon, ACLS, and NEA), and teaching. The successful applicant will have an outstanding scholarly or artistic record in digital humanities, digital media, and/or digital culture, including substantial experience in interdisciplinary, collaborative research and in obtaining and administering grant funding.  Classroom teaching expected outside the Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, within the successful candidate’s home department.

Texas A&M University already supports a variety of high-profile and emerging projects involving digital humanities and offers a Digital Humanities Certificate (http://idhmc.tamu.edu). The new appointee will help to develop these existing strengths into a top-echelon, interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Institute and program.  A copy of the whitepaper that established this research area is available upon request.

Minorities and women are strongly encouraged to apply. Texas A&M is an AA/EEO employer, is deeply committed to diversity, and responds to the needs of dual-career couples.

Please send a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, and 4-6 recommendation letters.  Applications will be considered until the position is filled.

Professor Laura Mandell
Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture
Department of English
4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227
mandell@tamu.edu

1. Three larger fellowships of $5,000 each for faculty conducting projects: this amount may be spent on special equipment and software to be hosted here at the center.  Our staff will set up a workflow for you and train you to use the equipment and software that you need.  You may propose to do projects without knowing what kinds of equipment/software you will need: you may but are not required to submit an equipment budget with your 5-page, double-spaced project description.  Faculty should feel completely free to write up what they imagine, describing wildly ideal research platforms: we can figure out what can be done to accomplish this work.  We will provide programming and data-entry help as well.
2. Collaboration grants: Faculty who contact another faculty member in another academic discipline, someone with whom they have not collaborated in the past, in order to work on a project together, each partner will be allotted $500 for equipment and software expenses.  Up to 20 people can receive partner-grants, and collaborative teams may be larger than two people: the only requirement is that the members have not collaborated before and all are from different disciplines.
3. Those who would like to discuss topics in Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture are welcome to start IDHMC-supported working groups.  While we do not offer money at this time, we can:
   1. Host meetings in the Digital Humanities Lounge, 246 Blocker: please see the calendar for available times at http://idhmc.tamu.edu
   2. Provide refreshments for meetings;
   3. Host for your group a drupal commons site that allows sharing documents, blogging, co-authoring, and communication (http://dhcommons.tamu.edu).
   4. If any group would like to start a wordpress blog or drupal site, please contact us.

“Scholars and the Mind”
Professor Laura Mandell

“Moving Forward”
Panelists: Dr. Laura Mandell; Stephen Chapman; Neni Panourgia; Dean Cyrus Taylor (CWRU Arts and Sciences); Lev Gonick (CWRU Vice President for Information Technology Services).
Moderator: Arnold Hirshon (CWRU Associate Provost and University Librarian)

Professor Laura Mandell,
“Forms of Attention: Distant Reading & Discipline”