The Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative is now accepting applications for the next cohort of CDHI Graduate Fellows.

The CDHI Graduate Fellows Program is designed to (1) identify outstanding Ph.D. students across all fields engaged in humanistic inquiry and teaching who are interested in developing digital humanities as a significant expression of their professional practice; (2) support their interest through a one-year individually tailored program of professional development, skills training, digital humanities courses, and project-based learning; and (3) involve them in a continuing community of fellow digital humanists—faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and other graduate students.

The program is a response to the increasing recognition of the value of digital humanities training in the hiring of new faculty positions in humanities disciplines and in broadening career horizons within and outside the academy for those who combine these capacities with the highest level of academic preparation in their subject disciplines. The fellowship program is a component of the Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative, and is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Graduate School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Up to three one-year fellowships will be awarded each year, with a goal of providing twelve graduate students with this experience by the end of the 2016-17 academic year. Students may apply as early as their first semester in residence and as late as the semester following approval of their dissertation proposal.

Applications are due Monday, March 17 at 5pm. An information session is scheduled for Tuesday, February 25, 3:30 PM in the Digital Innovation Lab (Greenlaw 431). Details about the program and how to apply are available here: https://digitalhumanities.unc.edu/programs/graduate-fellows-program/.