This works-in-progress series offers an open and supportive space to develop ideas, applications, and projects in the Digital Humanities.
The monthly meetings offer participants the chance to pre-circulate and discuss work-in-progress project ideas, prototypes, grant or article drafts, or bring any questions they might have to a supportive group. DSWIP supports a wide range of project types such as dissertations, public humanities initiatives, and the development of pedagogy materials.
The workshops are open to all faculty, staff, and students. Sign up below to get added to the mailing list.
The program existed previously as the Graduate Community of Digital Scholars (2023-2025), and the Digital Dissertation Scholars’ Program (2018-2022)
Previous iterations of the program were organized by the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, and the Digital Publishing in the Humanities Initiative.
Check out the projects and affiliations of past cohorts below!
2023 – 2024 COHORT
“Mapping Latin American Women’s Intellectual Networks”
Diana Duarte Salinas
Hispanic Studies
“Voicing Mediterranean Ecologies”
Ninon Vessier
French
“Homo Faber in the making: Towards an interdisciplinary understanding of human toolmaking skill acquisition”
Cheng Liu
Anthropology
“Caregivers, Caretakers: Sociocognitive Disability and Nineteenth-Century American Literature”
Lucy Wallitsch
English
“Ciphering the ‘World Chimera’: Crowds and the Racial Imagination in Britain’s Long 19th Century”
Em Nordling
English
2023 COHORT (Jan-Dec)
“Masters of Ceremony: Subverting the Sonic in Afro-Caribbean and Black American Literature”
Margy Adams
English
“Speculative fiction and the future of urban design”
Joshua Winston
English
“Global Supply Network: Does Diversification Help or Hurt?”
Deepak Agrawal
Information Systems and Operations Management
“The Love Ball: A History of New York City’s House-Structured Ballroom Culture”
Victor Ultra Omni
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
“Rivers, Literature, and the Ontology of Polluted Waters”
Dez Miller
Comparative Literature
DIGITAL DISSERTATION SCHOLARS (2018-2022)
“Menstruation in Pakistan: Texts, Experience, and Vernacular Islam”
Faiza Rahman
Islamic Civilization Studies
2021-2022
“Many Lives of a Female Saint: Unravelling the Works and Mythologies of Tarigonda Vengamamba”
Aalekhya Malladi
Religion
2020-2021
“The Imperial Examination System and the Birth of Chinese Identity, 1368-1644”
Jiajin Zou
History
2020-2021
“Environmentalism in Saudi Arabia: Islam, Politics, and Society”
Norah Elmagraby
Islamic Civilizations Studies
2019-2020
“Newcomers and New Borders: Migration, Settlement, and Conflict over Land along the Mississippi River, 1750-1820”
Alexander Cors
History
2018-2019
“‘I feel therefore I am free’: Black femme Interiority, Sensuality, and Worldmaking”
Alexis Mayfield
English
2021-2022
“Precarious Work and Adaptability in Creative Industries: The Case of Film Critics”
Dimitri Zaras
Sociology
2020-2021
“Exile, Migration and the Concept of Home in the Context of the Caribbean Landscape”
Alicia (Lily) Rodriguez
French and Italian
2019-2020
“Connected Histories of the Early Modern Shi’i States: Conversions, Religious Migrations, and Polemical Exchanges, 1500-1800”
Yusuf Unal
Islamic Civilization Studies
2019-2020
“Spatial Patterns of White Supremacist Bombings and Arson in the United States, 1940-2000”
William (Robert) Billups
History
2020-2021
“‘They tried to fortify their fear with booze’: Legacies of Pleasure, Leisure, and Debauchery in 20th-Century American Literature”
Hannah Griggs
English
2020-2021
“African-American Land Retention in the US South, 1929-1981”
Camille Goldmon
History
2019-2020
“The Secret Lives of Poems: Digital Inhabitations of Nineteenth-Century American Literature”
Kayla Shipp Kamibayashi
English
2018-2019
