The Digital Scholarship Fellows program supports faculty to scope and design scholarly digital projects, integrate aspects of the projects into courses and assignments, collaborate with student researchers and community partners, acquire new technology skills, and build websites for sharing scholarship in innovative ways online. A collaboration with the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, the program works toward the College’s strategic plan objectives to offer new opportunities for student/faculty collaborative research and to build a community of practice in digital scholarship.
Past fellows have built digital companions to book and article projects, digitized collections of research materials for public presentation on a website, and engaged directly with communities beyond academia through crowdsourcing, oral history interviews, and open public scholarship. In the process, students have had impactful opportunities to contribute to these projects as researchers, web designers, and translators.
As a Digital Scholarship Fellow, you would have the opportunity to: 1) work with Library & Information Technology staff members to support project development and broad dissemination of your research; 2) successfully scaffold research projects that involve digital technologies and collaboration with students and other partners; and 3) receive funding to help bring your project to fruition (e.g. to purchase software or hardware, to hire student assistants or web designers) and a $1000 stipend upon publication of your open-access project. Contact program director Lyndsay Bratton (lbratton@conncoll.edu) for more details. Proposals are accepted on a rolling basis.
See our Projects archive for inspiration!
