DOC-293629-23 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | University of Chicago | The Global Cochlear Implant: Provincializing "Brain Implants" through Disability Technocultures | 10/1/2023 - 9/30/2025 | $149,815.00 | Michele | | Friedner | Mara | | Mills | University of Chicago | Chicago | IL | 60637-5418 | USA | 2023 | Anthropology | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Digital Humanities | 149815 | 0 | 149815 | 0 | A humanistic comparative study of cochlear implant technology as an early form of a neural-computer interface.
Perhaps no medical device has sparked more popular discussion of the "dangers and opportunities of technology" than the cochlear implant (CI). The first true bionic device, CIs (re)produce an absent 'normal' human function. Despite debates about the ramifications of CI technology, few book-length studies of the technology exist and these overwhelmingly emphasize U.S. and European perspectives. This collaborative and comparative project will document the impacts of the technology itself, the influence of the global corporations that market it, and the range of ways implants have been domesticated, maintained, and re-interpreted. At this pivotal moment for the development and global dissemination of neuroprosthetics, with brain implants featured ubiquitously in the headlines, this multi-disciplinary, international project will serve both a documentary and a comparative function, as well as provide a platform through our conference and published work for alternative narratives of CI use. |
DOC-293714-23 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | University of Puget Sound | Robot Existentialism: Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of Rationality | 10/1/2023 - 6/30/2025 | $147,840.00 | Ariela | | Tubert | Justin | | Tiehen | University of Puget Sound | Tacoma | WA | 98416-5000 | USA | 2023 | Philosophy, General | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Digital Humanities | 147840 | 0 | 147840 | 0 | Research and writing a co-authored book on existential philosophy and artificial intelligence.
Our proposed project is to complete a monograph on philosophical issues connected to existentialism and artificial intelligence titled, Robot Existentialism: Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of Rationality. We argue that a full understanding of human agency requires a recognition of the limits of rationality, together with an emphasis on the value of creation, including especially self-creation. The book engages with philosophical work on personal identity, the philosophy of mind, practical reason, and ethics, as well as work in artificial intelligence and aligned empirical fields to develop a unified view of a distinctive aspect of agency that is currently lacking in artificial beings. The expected final outcome of this collaborative team project will be the complete, publication-ready manuscript of the book, in addition to two pieces of public philosophy and presentations drawing on ideas in the book. |
DOC-293796-23 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Northeastern University | The Ethics of Conservation Biotechnology: A Conceptual Engineering Approach | 11/1/2023 - 10/31/2025 | $149,851.00 | Ronald | | Sandler | Clare | | Palmer | Northeastern University | Boston | MA | 02115-5005 | USA | 2023 | Ethics | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Digital Humanities | 149851 | 0 | 131519 | 0 | Research and writing a multi-author volume on the ethics of biotechnology.
This collaborative research project aims to provide ethical guidance for conservation applications of biotechnologies such as gene editing, synthetic biology, and gene drives. The project team, which includes experts in conservation philosophy, animal ethics, environmental justice, and Indigenous philosophy, will develop conceptual and evaluative resources that are inclusive of a broad range of values and informed by high-rate anthropogenic change. Project outcomes will include academic publications with interdisciplinary reach, conference presentations at interdisciplinary venues, and public-facing scholarship. |
DOC-293819-23 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Wesleyan University | Engineering Safety into U.S. Firearms: Inventions, Manufacturers, Outcomes, & Implications, 1750-2010 | 10/1/2023 - 9/30/2025 | $149,563.00 | Jennifer | G. | Tucker | Stephen | | Hargarten | Wesleyan University | Middletown | CT | 06459-3208 | USA | 2023 | History of Science | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Digital Humanities | 149563 | 0 | 148487 | 0 | The historical analysis of how safety mechanisms for firearms have evolved and been marketed to consumers over time.
This multi-disciplinary humanities research collaboration, co-directed by a professor of history specializing in nineteenth-century technology and visual culture and a professor of emergency medicine, will include archival study of an aspect of firearms history that previously has received little study: the evolution of designs and instructions for firearms safety through the lens of engineering and marketing. Patents, firearm components, safety records, use instructions, medical writings and other records are all part of the objects of the study, which will also integrate visual and computational analyses by undergraduate and medical student researchers. |
DOC-293820-23 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Arizona State University | Understanding Algorithmic Folk Theories: Tracing Community-Based Knowledge on TikTok | 11/1/2023 - 5/31/2025 | $89,906.00 | Sarah | | Florini | Elizabeth | | Grumbach | Arizona State University | Tempe | AZ | 85281-3670 | USA | 2023 | Communications | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Digital Humanities | 89906 | 0 | 82704 | 0 | An ethnographic study of social media content creators comparatively analyzing folk theories and current academic theories of algorithmic governance.
This project seeks collaborative team funding to strengthen an equal partnership between academic researchers at Arizona State University and community researchers from The Online Creators’ Association (TOCA) to gather community-based knowledge that TikTok content creators circulate to understand and resist algorithmic governance. We will conduct interviews to map how creators conceptualize the forces that impact their everyday lives: algorithmic content curation and opaquely-defined moderation. Participants will be recruited from TOCA, which is predominantly composed of people from historically marginalized groups. We will publish two academic papers: 1) a content analysis identifying folk theories; 2) a comparative analysis between folk theories and current academic theories of algorithmic governance. We seek to reveal overlapping narratives and produce a shared vocabulary to enable academics and community members to more effectively intervene in the spread of mis/disinformation. |
DOC-293834-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Transnational Disinformation Networks and Asian Diasporic Politics | 1/1/2024 - 12/31/2025 | $149,999.00 | Rachel | | Kuo | Mark | | Calaguas | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Champaign | IL | 61801-3620 | USA | 2023 | Asian American Studies | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Digital Humanities | 149999 | 0 | 149999 | 0 | Research and oral history workshops supporting the publication of a book analyzing the circulation of misinformation among Asian and Asian-American community digital communication networks.
Transnational Disinformation Networks and Asian Diasporic Politics is a collaborative project between Dr. Rachel Kuo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Mark Calaguas (Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment and the Filipino Young Leaders Program). We bring together archival research and community oral histories to examine memory, political histories, and information networks across Asian and Asian American diasporas. We seek to understand how lived experiences of trauma, war, colonialism, and political suppression and social and cultural hierarchies of power undergird the spread of mis- and disinformation. We plan to host community storytelling workshops to train community volunteers to collect intergenerational and multilingual oral histories. By focusing on historical and geopolitical frameworks, our project intervenes in contemporary debates about mis- and disinformation, technology, and democracy. |
DOC-299565-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | New York University | Machine Listening in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | 9/1/2024 - 8/31/2026 | $149,991.00 | Edward (Byungkwon) | | Kang | Juana | | Becerra Sandoval | New York University | New York | NY | 10012-1019 | USA | 2024 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Digital Humanities | 149991 | 0 | 149991 | 0 | Planning and conducting interdisciplinary case studies and a public-facing speaker series examining the historical, social, economic, political, and epistemic impact of machine listening systems in preparation of a special issue in an academic journal and conference tutorial session.
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that mobilize sound – i.e., machine listening systems – are being implemented in high-stakes contexts spanning healthcare, human resources, and security. Few scholarly works have investigated their broader impact on society, and public awareness of how these systems affect people’s everyday lives is limited. This project will bring together a multidisciplinary and international group of scholars to advance research on the dangers and opportunities of machine listening from a humanistic perspective. Through working group meetings and a speaker series, the project will explore how the epistemic question of “listening” is shifting with the rise of AI, how machines learn to listen, and how machine listening systems are impacting or could impact society in the near future. The outcomes will include a special issue on machine listening systems (the first of its kind), a conference tutorial session, a piece in The Atlantic, and a white paper for NEH. |
DOC-299566-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. | Prosperity, Plants, and Pesticides: The Dangers and Opportunities of Agricultural Biotechnology | 10/1/2024 - 9/30/2026 | $148,467.00 | Pablo | | Lapegna | | | | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. | Athens | GA | 30602-1589 | USA | 2024 | Sociology | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Digital Humanities | 148467 | 0 | 148467 | 0 | Research for a book manuscript exploring how the use of agricultural biotechnology impacts both local economies and health outcomes.
This project examines the dangers and opportunities of agricultural biotechnology, which has the potential to both bring prosperity and contribute to environmental and health problems. Agricultural biotechnology, as genetically modified (GM) crops, has transformed farming. This technology has underpinned prosperity, particularly in Argentina, where farmers and governments have reaped the benefits of GM soybean production. Activists and rural populations, however, have voiced concerns about the environmental and public health impacts of herbicides used in GM crop production. How do people, communities, and societies negotiate the tensions between economic prosperity and environmental and health impacts? And what can the practices, ideas, and feelings that underlie agricultural biotechnology tell us about our relationship with nature? We will write a book manuscript addressing these questions and bridging the humanistic social sciences and the environmental humanities. |
DOC-299600-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Bucknell University | (Re)locating trauma: Mapping the dangers of carceral algorithms through stories of incarceration | 9/1/2024 - 8/31/2026 | $149,251.00 | Vanessa | | Massaro | Darakhshan | | Mir | Bucknell University | Lewisburg | PA | 17837-2005 | USA | 2024 | Geography | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Digital Humanities | 149251 | 0 | 149251 | 0 | Research and analysis of the impact of algorithmic decision-making tools on the lives of incarcerated people within and outside of Pennsylvania’s state corrections system.
This project will contribute to a growing effort in critical data studies to focus analysis on institutions and their use of algorithmic tools that pose structural harms to prisoners, countering the institutional focus on assessing the (racialized) “risk” individuals pose to the institution and, by extension, society. By examining the limitations and consequent dangers of existing algorithmic tools, this project aims to address how alternative data-informed approaches could lead to the rehabilitation and liberation of incarcerated people. |
DOC-299602-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | California State University, Dominguez Hills Foundation | Constructing the "I" in Artificial Intelligence: Perceptions of Teaching with Chat GPT in Relation to Cultural Identity | 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2026 | $144,151.00 | Mike | | Karlin | ?Alohilani | | Okamura | California State University, Dominguez Hills Foundation | Carson | CA | 90747-0001 | USA | 2024 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Digital Humanities | 144151 | 0 | 141252 | 0 | An
ethnographic study of beginning teachers in Los Angeles and Hawai’i and their
understanding of ChatGPT’s influence on teaching in culturally and
linguistically diverse classrooms.
The aim of this project is to understand the implications and interactions of generative artificial intelligence (AI) upon preservice teachers’ identities and practices within the two culturally and linguistically diverse contexts of Los Angeles and Hawai‘i. Preservice or beginning teachers will be recruited to engage with Chat GPT through an interactive module. Participants’ responses to module prompts and interview questions will be analyzed to examine how preservice teachers make meaning of teaching with Chat GPT. Thick, contextualized description may surface tensions experienced by preservice teachers from diverse backgrounds, when positioning ChatGPT as a cultural versus neutral educational tool. Outcomes from this project have the potential to inform education communities of more culturally sustaining, equitable, and just ways to utilize ChatGPT in classrooms. |
DOC-299609-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | University of Connecticut | Bringing the Past to the Future: Slavery and Artificial Intelligence on the Battleground of Popular Culture | 8/1/2024 - 7/31/2026 | $137,974.00 | Anna Mae | | Duane | Stephen | | Dyson | University of Connecticut | Storrs | CT | 06269-9000 | USA | 2024 | American Studies | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Digital Humanities | 137974 | 0 | 137974 | 0 | Development of a podcast series and scholarly book chapters analyzing how persistent narratives of slavery and servitude have influenced popular understanding of artificial intelligence and humans’ ethical engagement with emerging technologies.
Our goal is to investigate how legacies of slavery, as a set of emotional frameworks for determining the parameters of the human, are shaping the perception and reception of conversational artificial intelligence (AI). Much of this framing is done, we aver, through popular culture and the discourse it provokes regarding the scope of human rights. Our key activities are the research, production, and dissemination of six digitally accessible research conversations and two book chapters. Our expected final outcome is to bring past and present conceptions of slavery and servitude, as mediated by popular cultural representations of conversational AI, into the dialogue surrounding the ethical development of AI. This work is vital as we move into a future in which concepts of human dignity and freedom will be reshaped by AI in ways fraught with both danger and opportunity. As the Director and Associate Director of UConn’s Humanities Institute, we are applying as a collaborative team. |
DOC-299672-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | University of Pennsylvania | Imagining AI in organized labor: Struggles over the value of cultural work | 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2026 | $149,971.00 | Julia | B | Ticona | Caitlin | | Petre | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | PA | 19104-6205 | USA | 2024 | Communications | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Digital Humanities | 149971 | 0 | 121811 | 0 | A humanistic analysis and development of journal publications on the ways those working in creative industries engage with generative artificial intelligence technology and its potential impact on arts and culture.
Through interviews, ethnographic observation, and discourse analysis, this collaborative project investigates how cultural workers - and the unions that represent them - conceptualize generative AI and how these conceptualizations in turn shape 1) labor demands and 2) cultural workers' understandings of their work and status relative to other occupational groups. The project's goals are to deepen scholarly and popular understanding of the social processes by which collective meaning is assigned to emerging workplace technologies, and to consider how these assigned meanings have implications for ongoing labor struggles and inter-occupational solidarity. |
DOC-299695-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | New York University | Water Justice and Technology | 9/1/2024 - 2/28/2026 | $150,000.00 | Roger | Luke | DuBois | Theodora | | Dryer | New York University | New York | NY | 10012-1019 | USA | 2024 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative) | Digital Humanities | 150000 | 0 | 150000 | 0 | Further development of a web publication and edited volume of scholarship and criticism on the cultural and historical impacts of technology on water stewardship.
The project is best described as a multidisciplinary digital humanities and public engagement research initiative with aspirations to produce new knowledge, convene experts, engage the public, and curate resources focused on the nexus of water, technology, and environmental justice. The project emerges from our ongoing, hitherto unfunded work that began with Water Justice and Technology: The Covid-19 Crisis, Computational Resource Control, and Water Relief Policy, a collaborative report and policy critique featuring twelve contributors from various humanistic disciplines and the Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice (CIEJ). From this work we established an early development digital humanities platform that, with the support of NEH, we plan to grow into an internationally recognized platform and publication source on the intersections of technology and water. |
DOI-293613-23 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Lewis and Clark College | Gun Culture 4.0: Understanding the new Demographics of Gun Ownership in the United States | 10/1/2023 - 9/30/2025 | $74,956.00 | Jennifer | Ann | Hubbert | | | | Lewis and Clark College | Portland | OR | 97219-8091 | USA | 2023 | Cultural Anthropology | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 74956 | 0 | 74956 | 0 | The humanistic analysis of the changing demographics related to purchasing and owning firearms in the United States.
Gun ownership in the United States has skyrocketed in recent years. New gun owners are 40% of purchasers, and women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and self-defined “liberals” are arming themselves at unprecedented rates. Focusing on the changing demographics of gun ownership, this project seeks to 1) understand the symbolic dimensions of firearms as a technology; 2) understand the relationship of this technology to gun cultures; and 3) explore the implications of this relationship for gun violence. Gun research in the United States is largely dominated by a focus on epidemiology and criminology, i.e. what happens after the technology is used as a weapon of destruction. To understand and ameliorate the roots of this violence, we also need to understand the cultures and meanings of gun ownership and gun technology prior to its use. |
DOI-293648-23 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | San Francisco State University | Synthetic Creativity: Deepfakes in Contemporary Media | 1/1/2024 - 12/31/2024 | $74,879.00 | Mihaela | | Mihailova | | | | San Francisco State University | San Francisco | CA | 94132-1722 | USA | 2023 | Media Studies | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 74879 | 0 | 74879 | 0 | Independent research into the aesthetics, application, dissemination, and ontological status of deepfakes across media contexts, including digital artworks, social activism, museum exhibits, and film and television.
The project explores the aesthetics, application, dissemination, and ontological status of deepfakes across media contexts, including digital artworks, amateur videos, social justice activism, museum initiatives, and film and TV. |
DOI-293689-23 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | University of California, Santa Barbara | The Rickshaw and the Railroad: Human-Powered Transport in the Age of the Machine | 1/1/2024 - 12/31/2024 | $74,470.00 | Kate | Linette | McDonald | | | | University of California, Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara | CA | 93106-0001 | USA | 2023 | East Asian History | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 74470 | 0 | 74470 | 0 | Research and writing leading to a scholarly monograph about the modern history of transportation technology in Japan.
The Rickshaw and the Railroad examines the intellectual and social history of transportation in nineteenth through twenty-first century Japan. It argues that transportation is a keyword of modern history. It is a contested concept that historical actors and historians alike use to symbolize the past, define the modern and pre-modern eras, and critique the present and envision the future. Interweaving the histories of rickshaw pullers with human-car railway pushers, truck drivers, and parcel delivery workers, The Rickshaw and the Railroad shows that, (a) for over one hundred years, the promise that cheaper and faster transportation would benefit society at large has been used to override the concerns of those who sought to protect transport as a livelihood; and, (b) on a broad scale transport change has continually reproduced, rather than eliminated, the need for precarious human labor in transportation systems. |
DOI-293720-23 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | University of Pittsburgh | Teaching Art History with AI | 10/1/2023 - 4/30/2024 | $66,329.00 | Alison | | Langmead | | | | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | PA | 15260-6133 | USA | 2023 | History, Criticism, and Theory of the Arts | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 66329 | 0 | 66329 | 0 | A series of convenings among college and university educators and the development of open educational resources concerning the pedagogical use of computational image generation technologies in art history, visual culture, and media studies.
This proposal requests funding for a series of convenings to create a peer-supported learning community of college/university-level educators who want to integrate a deeper understanding of computational image generation technologies (such as DALL-E 2 or Midjourney) into their teaching practices. Participants will be selected through a nationwide call for participation from those currently teaching in the fields of art history, visual culture, and material culture. To produce as broad an impact as possible, participants will be sought from a highly diverse set of academic and geographic settings. Additionally, the Project Team will produce an openly-accessible website that gathers scholarly information about the dangers and opportunities present at the intersection of computational image generators and the history of human visual artistic production. This website will also describe how this series of convenings was designed and produced as a model for others to use in future. |
DOI-293761-23 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | University of Southern California | Energy Technologies, Development, and the Environment in Modern Iran, 1935-2005 | 1/1/2024 - 12/31/2024 | $70,625.00 | Ciruce | Alexander | Movahedi-Lankarani | | | | University of Southern California | Los Angeles | CA | 90089-0012 | USA | 2023 | Near and Middle Eastern History | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 70625 | 0 | 70625 | 0 | Research and writing leading to a scholarly monograph about the modern history of the use of natural gas in Iran.
This project focuses on the history natural gas in 20th-century Iran, using the energy source—as both a varied material substance and an object of discourse—as a lens to study the country’s developmental programs, its charged politics of modernization, and their connection to the natural world. It follows the movement of gas from underground reservoirs through infrastructures of refining and distribution into everyday life, in the process exploring the roles of planners, oil firms, industrialists, consumers, mountain ranges, sedimentary rock, and natural gas itself. Drawing upon perspectives from Middle Eastern history, science and technology studies, and political ecology, it contributes to our knowledge of modern Iran, the creation of fossil fuel energy systems in the Global South, the role of anticolonial politics in the rise of hydrocarbon energy regimes and the climate crises they have spawned, and the theorization of precarity as an entrepot to studying human-nature interactions. |
DOI-293774-23 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Regents of the University of California, Irvine | Live Streaming Identity: Opportunities and Challenges for LGBTQ Communities | 10/1/2023 - 9/30/2025 | $75,000.00 | Bo | | Ruberg | | | | Regents of the University of California, Irvine | Irvine | CA | 92617-3066 | USA | 2023 | Media Studies | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 75000 | 0 | 75000 | 0 | Research and development of a scholarly monograph examining the cultural tensions surrounding LGBTQ live streaming.
This project seeks to understand the ambivalent relationship between internet technologies and the empowerment or endangerment of LGBTQ people. It does so by examining one subset of LGBTQ people online: LGBTQ live streamers and their viewers. As many news reports have documented, the phenomenon of live streaming grew exponentially during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly on real-time on platforms like Twitch, Instagram, or Zoom. LGBTQ people have played a prominent yet precarious role in the rise of live streaming. Many LGBTQ streamers have become public role models for a new generation of young LGBTQ internet users and LGBTQ groups gather regularly for events. Concurrently, anti-LGBTQ harassment is rampant on these same platforms. This project looks specifically at LGBTQ streaming on Twitch, the largest live streaming platform, to understand how LGBTQ streamers simultaneously express identity, build community, combat harassment, and navigate regulatory platform politics. |
DOI-293791-23 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Rice University | The Visual History of Computational Health | 1/1/2024 - 12/31/2025 | $75,000.00 | Kirsten | Anne | Ostherr | | | | Rice University | Houston | TX | 77005-1827 | USA | 2023 | History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 75000 | 0 | 75000 | 0 | Research and development of a scholarly monograph on the history of the computational approaches to healthcare, 1960s-2000s.
This project seeks to determine the implicit humanistic values embedded in the design and use of healthcare technologies. Through archival research and analysis of audiovisual media produced by medical professionals and technology developers, this project will explain how early ideas about emerging healthcare technologies transformed patient care by envisioning human bodies as quantitative data. This move not only excluded the messy, non-linear, emotional, and unpredictable aspects of embodied illness experiences, it also excluded the experiences of gendered, racialized, and minoritized patients. By examining how future uses of computers in healthcare were imagined from the 1960s onward, this project will show how the development of computational approaches to patient care worked precisely by erasing the human elements of illness and healing. A resulting book manuscript, The Visual History of Computational Health, will narrate the throughline from these early imaginings to the present. |
DOI-293797-23 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Syracuse University | Good Decisions: Data Science as a Moral Practice | 1/1/2024 - 12/31/2025 | $73,670.00 | Johannes | | Himmelreich | | | | Syracuse University | Syracuse | NY | 13244-0001 | USA | 2023 | Ethics | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 73670 | 0 | 66748 | 0 | Research and writing a co-authored book on ethical considerations for the practice of data science.
This project investigates the technology of data science (a collection of techniques to extract value from data). The project advances the argument that data science is a moral practice. The project makes this argument by bringing normative theories and philosophy of science to bear on the practice of data science. The main goal of the project is to offer a systematic analysis of the nature of data science and its inherent ethical dilemmas. Key activities are the identification of ethical dilemmas in each step in the data science work cycle—these steps include data collection, data “cleaning”, data analysis, and communication. The main project outcome is a book manuscript; further outcomes are two peer-reviewed open access journal publications. Each of the steps in the data science work cycle will be the topic of a book chapter and/or article. |
DOI-293825-23 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | University of Virginia | The Spontaneity Deficit: Dangers and Opportunities of the Age of Distraction | 1/1/2024 - 12/31/2024 | $75,000.00 | Zachary | Clint | Irving | | | | University of Virginia | Charlottesville | VA | 22903-4833 | USA | 2023 | Philosophy of Science | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 75000 | 0 | 75000 | 0 | Research and writing a book on the ethical impact of distraction by digital technology.
The founder of Napster said that digital distractions like notifications and ads are made to “consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible… God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.” This is typical of Silicon Valley’s “move fast, break things” ethos. Companies change our lives and minds without knowing the risks and opportunities. One risk is familiar: digital distractions undermine our capacity to pay attention. The Spontaneity Deficit will identify another risk. Digital technologies not only make us more distracted; they also change how we are distracted. Our minds used to wander during idly times like riding a bus or walking. Digital distractions are instead designed to leave us “stuck” on a salient topic, such as moral outrage or doom-scrolling. This deficit of mind-wandering––the eponymous spontaneity deficit––is a problem because our idly ramblings are a fount of creative insight. |
DOI-293831-23 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Virginia Tech | Digital Inequalities in Latin America: The effects of Code and Infrastructure in Indigenous Access to the Internet | 12/1/2023 - 11/30/2025 | $75,000.00 | Fernanda | | Ribeiro Rosa | | | | Virginia Tech | Blacksburg | VA | 24061-2000 | USA | 2023 | Communications | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 75000 | 0 | 75000 | 0 | Research and development of an open access monograph analyzing internet infrastructure and digital access in Latin American Indigenous communities.
The goal of this ethnographic and single researcher led project is to examine and address the effects of digital inequalities embedded in code and infrastructure on people's access to the internet, with a focus on Indigenous people in Abya Yala [Latin America]. I aim to identify dangers and opportunities in the design of internet code and infrastructure in light of the agency of Latinx people and their lived experiences. While internet services are taken for granted in many contexts in the global North, in Indigenous territories in the global South cellphone networks and internet networks are frequently not available, having to be built from scratch by people in the communities. Parallel to that, this project will apply participatory design research to collectively prototype new forms of internet interconnection with the goal of leveraging Indigenous control over their digital data, also known as Indigenous digital sovereignty. |
DOI-299381-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | George Mason University | Rail Against Sprawl: A History of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project | 7/1/2024 - 6/30/2025 | $74,999.00 | Zachary | M. | Schrag | | | | George Mason University | Fairfax | VA | 22030-4444 | USA | 2024 | Urban History | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 74999 | 0 | 74999 | 0 | Development of a scholarly monograph on the history of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project.
The Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project extends the Washington Metro rail transit system for twenty-three miles from Arlington, Virginia, through Tysons Corner and Washington Dulles International Airport into Loudoun County. The project is remarkable for two reasons: space and time. Physically, it consists of a heavy rail rapid transit system—traditionally an urban technology—built far outside a traditional downtown. Temporarily, it is a massive infrastructure project built long after the end of the federal largesse that funded the original Metro system. My research therefore has two main questions. First, how did the creators of this project overcome suburban skepticism about transit? And secondly, how did they do so in an era of fiscal austerity? My book project, Rail against Sprawl, seeks to answer those questions, and to explore the dangers and opportunities of rail rapid transit in the twenty-first century. |
DOI-299546-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh | Project 02: Twenty Years of Google in The Dalles, Oregon | 8/1/2024 - 7/31/2025 | $50,221.00 | Adam | | Diller | | | | University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh | Oshkosh | WI | 54901-3551 | USA | 2024 | Media Studies | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 50221 | 0 | 50221 | 0 | Research and writing of a scholarly monograph and associated public events on the history of Google’s first data center in The Dalles, Oregon.
Project 02: Twenty Years of Google in The Dalles, Oregon develops new models for changing the Internet through an environmental history of Google’s first hyperscale data center. Project 02 contributes new perspectives to existing studies of this Internet by analyzing Google’s oldest data center longitudinally, tracing its emergence over the past twenty years. The novel mode of computation implemented in The Dalles produces new practices of occupying land, organizing time, securing data, structuring information, and engineering flows of materials. This monograph traces shifts across Google’s discourse, computing technologies, relationships with local governments, entrenchment of settler colonial processes, and consumption of water and electricity. Project 02 highlights ways that the contingencies of these practices provide opportunities to contest Google’s expansive power, leveraging the more-than-human materialities and histories of this node in this Internet to produce change. |
DOI-299554-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Emory University | Sticky Activism: Online Misogyny and Feminist Activism in South Korea | 8/1/2024 - 7/31/2025 | $75,000.00 | Jinsook | | Kim | | | | Emory University | Atlanta | GA | 30322-1018 | USA | 2024 | Media Studies | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 75000 | 0 | 72945 | 0 | Writing a book that analyzes how women and marginalized groups in South Korea have fought back against online harassment on globalized digital platforms.
Writing a book about how new modes of feminist activism in South Korea have contested widespread misogyny accelerated by digital media technologies in the past decade. |
DOI-299560-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Claremont McKenna College | Virtual Territories: War and the State in a Digital Age | 7/1/2024 - 8/31/2025 | $74,648.00 | Jordan | | Branch | | | | Claremont McKenna College | Claremont | CA | 91711-5929 | USA | 2024 | International Relations | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 74648 | 0 | 74648 | 0 | Research and writing of a scholarly monograph on the intersections of information technology, warfare, and state sovereignty with a focus on war planning, drone warfare, and digital mapping.
This project explores how digital technologies of warfare are reshaping the sovereign state. Historically, states emerged out of institutional changes driven in large part by military competition. Today, however, the technologies of war—more than war itself—are driving state transformation. The resulting book will apply humanistic and social-science methods to examine three intersections between information technology, warfare, and statehood today: planning wars in the virtual domain of cybersecurity, fighting wars remotely through drones, and negotiating resolutions to conflicts through digital mapping. All three cases reveal how representations— conceptual, linguistic, and visual—are an important but largely overlooked element in the political consequences of technological change. Key representations are reshaping how territorial borders function, how new forms of interstate violence are deployed, and how states seek to govern new domains such as the internet. |
DOI-299572-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Montclair State University | Arts, Agency and Automation: A Global Cultural Affair | 7/1/2024 - 6/30/2026 | $74,999.00 | Charlotte | Lucy | Kent | | | | Montclair State University | Montclair | NJ | 07043-1600 | USA | 2024 | History, Criticism, and Theory of the Arts | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 74999 | 0 | 74999 | 0 | Multidisciplinary research and field interviews with internationally recognized artists resulting in academic articles and preparation of a book manuscript on the concept of agency as it relates to generative AI artistic production.
The rise of automated art through the use of large model generators (LMGs) like Chat GPT or Dall-E contributes to anxiety about Artificial Intelligence "taking over." Arts, Agency and Automation: A Global Cultural Affair examines notions of agency across law, sociology, philosophy, psychology, posthumanism, as well as art theory, and conducts interviews with global artists using LMGs about the machine's agency and their own. Since people in nations like the US that are identified as individualist cultures conceive agency differently from collectivist communities, artists will represent different backgrounds and nationalities. LMGs are transnational, so their outputs are relevant to art, but also governments and regulatory authorities. Arts, Agency and Automation: A Global Cultural Affair proposes articles and a book to support journalists, artists, scholars, business leaders and politicians distinguishing among approaches to agency as produced by creative adoption of AI machines. |
DOI-299574-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Purdue University | Influencing the Revolution: Social Media and Digital Fundraising in the United States and Myanmar | 9/1/2024 - 8/31/2026 | $74,462.00 | Courtney | | Wittekind | | | | Purdue University | West Lafayette | IN | 47907-2040 | USA | 2024 | Anthropology | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 74462 | 0 | 74307 | 0 | Research examining the complexities of digital fundraising efforts on commercial social media platforms by diasporic communities seeking to support democratic resistance in Myanmar.
Influencing the Revolution will study the social media fundraising campaigns that are sustaining Myanmar’s “Spring Revolution,” a movement seeking to restore democracy to the nation. The project argues that, while transnational fundraising aims to support democratic activism in Myanmar, fundraisers’ digital tactics depend on the very profit-generating mechanisms that make social media susceptible to undemocratic outcomes. Through social media archiving, user interviews, and focus group discussions, the goal of this single-researcher study is to document how fundraising networks harness the functionality of social media platforms like Facebook to monetize supporters’ time and attention. Final outcomes— a public commentary, scholarly article, and book proposal—will document the political organizing of an understudied US population and provide insights into the relationship between transnational activism, digital fundraising, and social media’s conversion of users’ engagement into profit. |
DOI-299582-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | University of Massachusetts, Lowell | The Subject Project: Human Visibility, Vulnerability, and Diversity in the Data Age | 9/1/2024 - 8/31/2026 | $74,850.00 | James | | Garrison | | | | University of Massachusetts, Lowell | Lowell | MA | 01854-3629 | USA | 2024 | Philosophy, General | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 74850 | 0 | 62242 | 0 | Research toward a book manuscript investigating how human consciousness and behavior are mediated by an increased awareness of being a source of data.
Using a combination of concepts and approaches from critical theory, data science, and data ethics, The Subject Project investigates 1) how human subjects view themselves and are conscious of being viewed by data systems and 2) how to mitigate the impact that this has, particularly on diverse populations. The Subject Project maintains that specific conditions of visibility and invisibility make each of us (but some much more so than others) vulnerable to being compelled to see what we hold to be special about ourselves projected with unsettling accuracy into the future by impersonal algorithms which have major social and political consequences. |
DOI-299586-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | The Lifecycles of the Arecibo Observatory: Understanding the social, cultural, and political contexts of research facility host sites | 7/1/2024 - 6/30/2025 | $74,347.00 | Raquel | | Velho | | | | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy | NY | 12180-3590 | USA | 2024 | History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 74347 | 0 | 63274 | 0 | Research and analysis of the history and development of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the multifaceted impacts on local residents and communities.
Large research facilities such as astronomical observatories are essential to the advancement of science, but their value to host communities is not always clear. Though social impact assessments for research facilities are often undertaken, proposed facilities can cause tremendous social friction. The proposed project therefore offers a step towards redressing this gap of knowledge, proposing a situational analysis of the history of decision-making that enables the formation of new research infrastructures and the consequences of those decisions as science-society interactions at the sites and host localities of large-scale research infrastructures throughout their lifecycle (i.e., their development, establishment, operation, and decommission) through a case study of the history of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. |
DOI-299619-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Arizona State University | AI and the Future of U.S. Intelligence | 8/1/2024 - 7/31/2026 | $74,928.00 | Kathleen | | Vogel | | | | Arizona State University | Tempe | AZ | 85281-3670 | USA | 2024 | Sociology | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 74928 | 0 | 68915 | 0 | Research and writing of a scholarly monograph and related articles on the social implications of use of artificial intelligence by the U.S. national security community.
Although scholarly attention has been devoted to the social and ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI), few studies have looked at the social implications of AI for the U.S. intelligence community—a largely secret world that has major epistemological implications in terms of national security knowledge production. This project will provide a unique opportunity to study the imagination and design of AI in intelligence analysis through case studies of two defense research agencies, DARPA’s Explainable Artificial Intelligence project (XAI) and IARPA’s REASON project; the review of official policy documents; and interviews with past and current intelligence community members. [updated by NEH staff member] |
DOI-299637-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | University of Wisconsin, Madison | How Life Support Technology Changed American Death | 7/1/2024 - 6/30/2026 | $75,000.00 | Christine | Dianne | Wenc | | | | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Madison | WI | 53715-1218 | USA | 2024 | U.S. History | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 75000 | 0 | 75000 | 0 | Research and writing of a work of public scholarship, a monograph on the history of life support technology and its impact on American culture.
My project is a history of life support technology in the United States and how it changed American death in the 20th century. It will take the form of a book manuscript focused on the history of the ventilator and its use in the intensive care unit between 1950 and 2000, telling the story of how both medicine and society created, responded to, and interacted with this technology. I will also look at how two early 20th-century devices—the pulmotor resuscitation machine in the 1910s–20s and the iron lung in the 1930s–50s—played foundational roles in this history, not only in technological development but in the broader medical, cultural, and popular discourse about the use of technology at the end of life. The book will be aimed at both an academic and general audience and will use methods and approaches from the academic history of medicine, science and technology studies, and literary journalism. |
DOI-299648-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | New School | AI-powered Influence, Deception and Manipulation | 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2026 | $74,991.00 | Peter | | Asaro | | | | New School | New York | NY | 10011-8871 | USA | 2024 | History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 74991 | 0 | 74991 | 0 | Research for a book investigating the potential for manipulation and deception using artificial intelligence systems.
This project aims to answer the research question: How can we best understand the nature of influence, deception, manipulation in ways that both reflect socially acceptable and desirable forms of these, while providing a substantive means for designing and regulating technological systems that avoid the greatest potential dangers from applying AI to them? The project will be completed over the course of two years, resulting in publication of a book manuscript on "Digital Manipulation" aimed at general audiences; scholars concerned with the ethical and social implications of AI; science, technology and society scholars; technology designers and developers; and policymakers. |
DOI-299683-24 | Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | University of Oregon | Geneticizing Health Disparities? Health Equity for Racialized Communities and the Promise of Precision Medicine in Canada | 8/1/2024 - 7/31/2025 | $74,880.00 | Arafaat | A. | Valiani | | | | University of Oregon | Eugene | OR | 97403-5219 | USA | 2024 | History, Other | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Individuals) | Digital Humanities | 74880 | 0 | 74880 | 0 | Ethnographic research culminating in several scholarly articles and a monograph investigating whether precision medicine helps prevent or reproduce health disparities.
This project will ethnographically investigate whether precision medicine can contribute to reducing health disparities experienced by racialized peoples or if it will reproduce such disparities in the genetics-based language of precision medicine. Employing recent insights from the historical study of genetics and postcolonial science studies, this project will trace the processes by which medical researchers practice precision medicine, and deploy the language of this scientific field, as a form of preventative care that addresses health disparities experienced by racialized peoples in Canada. In scholarly articles and a monograph, the findings of this project will contribute to debates within the humanities about bioethics, race and social justice, and postcolonial science. It will contribute to broader audiences including racialized communities, educators, decision-makers in public health discussions through a conference/knowledge exchange, op-eds, social media and podcasts. |
DR-272401-20 | Digital Humanities: Fellowships Open Book Program | Regents of the University of Michigan | Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of American Folksong in the 1930s | 9/1/2020 - 2/28/2022 | $5,500.00 | Sara | | Cohen | | | | Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor | MI | 48109-1015 | USA | 2020 | Composition and Rhetoric | Fellowships Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 5500 | 0 | 5500 | 0 |
To make Jonathon W. Stones book, Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of Folksong in the 1930s, available Open Access on our digital publishing platform Fulcrum. |
DR-272592-20 | Digital Humanities: Fellowships Open Book Program | Johns Hopkins University | Open Access Edition of Imagination and Science in Romanticism by Richard C. Sha | 9/1/2020 - 2/28/2022 | $5,500.00 | Claire | | Tamberino | | | | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore | MD | 21218-2608 | USA | 2020 | Literary Criticism | Fellowships Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 5500 | 0 | 5500 | 0 |
This project will publish the book Imagination and Science in Romanticism, written by NEH Fellow Richard C. Sha (NEH grant number FA-56408-12), in an electronic open access format under a Creative Commons license, making it available for free download and distribution. The author will be paid a royalty of at least $500 upon release of the open access edition. |
DR-272593-20 | Digital Humanities: Fellowships Open Book Program | Johns Hopkins University | Open Access Edition of Imagined Homeland: British Poetry in the Colonies by Jason R. Rudy | 9/1/2020 - 2/28/2022 | $5,500.00 | Claire | | Tamberino | | | | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore | MD | 21218-2608 | USA | 2020 | Literary Criticism | Fellowships Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 5500 | 0 | 5500 | 0 |
This project will publish the book Imagined Homeland: British Poetry in the Colonies, written by NEH Fellow Jason R. Rudy (NEH grant number FA-54989-10), in an electronic open access format under a Creative Commons license, making it available for free download and distribution. The author will be paid a royalty of at least $500 upon release of the open access edition. |
DR-272597-20 | Digital Humanities: Fellowships Open Book Program | Vanderbilt University | Open Access Edition of The Rise of Euroskepticism: Europe & Its Critics in Spanish Culture | 9/1/2020 - 3/31/2021 | $5,500.00 | Gianna | | Mosser | | | | Vanderbilt University | Nashville | TN | 37203-2416 | USA | 2020 | European History | Fellowships Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 5500 | 0 | 5500 | 0 |
This project will result in the publishing of the electronic open-access version of the book The Rise of Euroskepticism: Europe & Its Critics in Spanish Culture, authored by NEH Fellow Luis Martin-Estudillo (NEH grant number FA-58154-15). The open-access format will be published under a Creative Commons license, rendering it free for download and distribution. With the release of the eBook, Luis Martin-Estudillo will receive at least $500 in royalty payment. |
DR-272609-20 | Digital Humanities: Fellowships Open Book Program | Trustees of Indiana University | Open Access Edition of Main Street Movies: The History of Local Film in the United States | 9/1/2020 - 2/28/2022 | $5,500.00 | Allison | Blair | Chaplin | | | | Trustees of Indiana University | Bloomington | IN | 47405-7000 | USA | 2020 | Film History and Criticism | Fellowships Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 5500 | 0 | 5500 | 0 |
This project will publish the book Main Street Movies: The History of Local Film in the United States, written by NEH Fellow Martin L. Johnson (NEH grant number FA-58514-15) in an electronic open access format under a Creative Commons license, making it available for free download and distribution. The author will be paid a royalty of at least $500 upon release of the open access ebook. The period of performance start date is September 1, 2020. We request an end date on February 28, 2022. |
DR-272610-20 | Digital Humanities: Fellowships Open Book Program | University of Chicago | Open Access Edition of "American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream" by Julia L. Mickenberg | 9/1/2020 - 2/28/2022 | $5,500.00 | Alan | | Thomas | | | | University of Chicago | Chicago | IL | 60637-5418 | USA | 2020 | U.S. History | Fellowships Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 5500 | 0 | 5500 | 0 |
This project will publish the book "American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream," written by Julia L. Mickenberg (NEH grant number FA5576111), in an electronic open access format under a Creative Commons license, making it available for free download and distribution. The author will be paid a royalty of at least $500 upon release of the open access ebook. |
DR-272611-20 | Digital Humanities: Fellowships Open Book Program | University of Chicago | Open Access Edition of "Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi" by Kenda Mutongi | 9/1/2020 - 2/28/2022 | $5,500.00 | Alan | | Thomas | | | | University of Chicago | Chicago | IL | 60637-5418 | USA | 2020 | African Studies | Fellowships Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 5500 | 0 | 5500 | 0 |
This project will publish the book "Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi," written by Kenda Mutongi (NEH grant number FB-56100-12), in an electronic open access format under a Creative Commons license, making it available for free download and distribution. The author will be paid a royalty of at least $500 upon release of the open access ebook. |
DR-272612-20 | Digital Humanities: Fellowships Open Book Program | University of Chicago | Open Access Edition of "Make It Rain: State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America" by Kristine C. Harper | 9/1/2020 - 2/28/2022 | $5,500.00 | Alan | | Thomas | | | | University of Chicago | Chicago | IL | 60637-5418 | USA | 2020 | U.S. History | Fellowships Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 5500 | 0 | 5500 | 0 |
This project will publish the book "Make It Rain: State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America," written by Kristine C. Harper (NEH grant number FB-53252-07), in an electronic open access format under a Creative Commons license, making it available for free download and distribution. The author will be paid a royalty of at least $500 upon release of the open access ebook. |
DR-272615-20 | Digital Humanities: Fellowships Open Book Program | Duke University | Open Access edition of Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power | 9/1/2020 - 2/28/2022 | $5,500.00 | Dean | J. | Smith | | | | Duke University | Durham | NC | 27705-4677 | USA | 2020 | East Asian History | Fellowships Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 5500 | 0 | 5500 | 0 |
In Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state's efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces the evolution of an antiradical law called the Peace Preservation Law, from its initial application to suppress communism and anticolonial nationalism—what authorities deemed thought crime—to its expansion into an elaborate system to reform and ideologically convert thousands of thought criminals throughout the Japanese Empire. |
DR-272616-20 | Digital Humanities: Fellowships Open Book Program | University of Minnesota | Cut/Copy/Paste Open Book Fellowship | 9/1/2020 - 2/28/2022 | $5,500.00 | Douglas | M. | Armato | | | | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis | MN | 55455-2009 | USA | 2020 | British Literature | Fellowships Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 5500 | 0 | 5500 | 0 |
The purpose of this project is to seek support for open-access digital publication of Whitney Trettien's book "Cut/Copy/Paste: Echoes of Little Gidding" on the Manifold Scholarship digital publishing platform. |
DR-272617-20 | Digital Humanities: Fellowships Open Book Program | Duke University | Open Access Edition of Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins. | 9/1/2020 - 2/28/2022 | $5,500.00 | Dean | J. | Smith | | | | Duke University | Durham | NC | 27705-4677 | USA | 2020 | Music History and Criticism | Fellowships Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 5500 | 0 | 5500 | 0 |
In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music and dance’s African origins between the 1930s and 1950s. Garcia examines the work of figures ranging from Melville J. Herskovits, Katherine Dunham, and Asadata Dafora to Duke Ellington, Dámaso Pérez Prado, and others who believed that linking black music and dance with Africa and nature would help realize modernity’s promises of freedom in the face of fascism and racism in Europe and the Americas, colonialism in Africa, and the nuclear threat at the start of the Cold War. In analyzing their work, Garcia traces how such attempts to link black music and dance to Africa unintentionally reinforced the binary relationships between the West and Africa, white and black, the modern and the primitive, science and magic, and rural and urban. |
DR-272623-20 | Digital Humanities: Fellowships Open Book Program | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Open Access Edition of Transforming Women’s Education: Liberal Arts and Music in Female Seminaries Written by Jewel A. Smith. | 9/1/2020 - 2/28/2022 | $5,500.00 | Laurie | | Matheson | | | | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Champaign | IL | 61801-3620 | USA | 2020 | Music History and Criticism | Fellowships Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 5500 | 0 | 5500 | 0 |
This project will publish the book Transforming Women’s Education: Liberal Arts and Music in Female Seminaries, written by NEH Fellow Jewel A. Smith (NEH grant number FA-53416-07), in an electronic open access format under a Creative Commons license, making it available for free download and distribution. The author will be paid a royalty of $500 upon release of the open access book. |
DR-278009-21 | Digital Humanities: Fellowships Open Book Program | University of Washington | Open-access edition of Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam, by David Biggs | 1/1/2021 - 12/31/2021 | $5,500.00 | Nicole | F. | Mitchell | | | | University of Washington | Seattle | WA | 98195-1016 | USA | 2020 | East Asian History | Fellowships Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 5500 | 0 | 5500 | 0 |
Footprints of War by David Biggs (FA-57319-13) traces the long history of conflict-produced spaces in Vietnam, from the French colonial invasion in 1885 through the collapse of the Saigon government in 1975. The result is a richly textured history of militarized landscapes that reveals the spatial logic and social impact of key battles. It also explores how the militarized landscapes here, as in many historic conflict zones, continue to shape post-war land-use politics. We published a hardcover edition in 2018 and propose to publish an open-access edition with a Creative Commons license. We will post it on leading OA repositories including JSTOR, MUSE Open, OAPEN, Internet Archive, and HathiTrust. We are also piloting the Manifold platform, which will enable the author to link additional resources to the book for further research and teaching purposes. We will promote the OA edition at professional conferences and via direct mail and social media. We will pay the author a $500 royalty. |
DR-278065-21 | Digital Humanities: Fellowships Open Book Program | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Photographic Presidents: Taking History from Daguerreotype to Digital by Cara A. Finnegan | 1/1/2021 - 6/30/2022 | $5,500.00 | Laurie | | Matheson | | | | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Champaign | IL | 61801-3620 | USA | 2020 | Political History | Fellowships Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 5500 | 0 | 5500 | 0 |
Photographic Presidents tells a history of photography through stories of how presidents shaped and participated in transformative moments in the history of the medium. Cara A. Finnegan analyzes a wealth of newspaper and magazine articles, letters to the editor, trial testimony, books, and speeches produced by viewers in response to specific photos they encountered in public. Finnegan treats the photograph as a locus for viewer engagement and constructs a history of photography's viewers that shows how Americans used words about images to participate in the politics of their day. As she shows, encounters with photography helped viewers negotiate the emergent anxieties and crises of U.S. public life through not only persuasion but action as well. Telling a new story about a medium and an institution that have largely grown up together, this book offers readers an accessible, visually engaging story about photography, the presidency, and public life. |
DR-278085-21 | Digital Humanities: Fellowships Open Book Program | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Open Access Edition of "Citizen Countess: Sofia Panina and the Fate of Revolutionary Russia" by Adele Lindenmeyr | 1/1/2021 - 6/30/2022 | $5,500.00 | Dennis | | Lloyd | | | | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Madison | WI | 53715-1218 | USA | 2020 | Russian History | Fellowships Open Book Program | Digital Humanities | 5500 | 0 | 5500 | 0 |
This project will publish the book "Citizen Countess," written by NEH Fellow Adele Lindenmeyr (NEH grant number FB-3760-08), in an electronic open access format under a Creative Commons license, making it available for free download and distribution. The author will be paid a royalty of at least $500 upon release of the open access ebook. |