Fellowships in Digital Humanities
NEWS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: 6/14/11
CONTACT: LESLIE SCHALER, (413) 545-0162, lschaler@library.umass.edu
UMASS AMHERST LIBRARIES ANNOUNCE
WINNERS OF FELLOWSHIPS IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Amherst, MA - The Department of Special Collections and University Archives in the UMass Amherst Libraries announce the winners of the fellowships in digital humanities, Thomas Hohenstein and Emily Oswald. Both winners are graduate students in the history department at UMass Amherst. The Libraries created the Experiential Training in Historical Information Resources (ETHIR) fellowship program to provide students with a structured, hands-on experience using and interpreting historical documentary resources. The winners will receive an award of $2,500.
Emily Oswald will focus her fellowship on “Primary Sources and the Historical Method: Enriching UMass Amherst General Education Courses with Documents from Special Collections and the University Archives.” Tom Hohenstein will focus his fellowship on “Activists and Authors: UMass and Central America in the ‘80s.”
In addition, ETHIR fellows will take part in a range of activities in the digital humanities tied to their research interests, including preparing new and under-described collections for use by researchers, creating finding aids that will be made available on the Department’s website, and curating exhibits, digital corpora, or other interpretive materials.
For more information, contact Rob Cox, head of Special Collections and University Archives, at rscox@library.umass.edu, or (413) 545-6842, or go to http://bit.ly/ethir_fellowship.
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Last Edited: 14 June 2011
