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    From: Jennifer Furlong <jfurlong@gc.cuny.edu>
    Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 4:50 PM
    Subject: Digital Humanities Fellowships, APS, Philly

    The Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS)
    (https://www.amphilsoc.org/center-digital-scholarship) at the American
    Philosophical Society invites applications for Digital Humanities
    Fellowships at the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum. These
    fellowships, for up to 2 months, are open to scholars at all stages of
    their careers, including graduate students, who are developing digital
    projects that: 1) utilize the APS’s Library & Museum collections, open
    datasets, or other APS holdings to advance a digital component of an
    independent research project, *or*, 2) seek to apply existing tools and
    expertise to digital projects developed in collaboration with the Library &
    Museum’s Center for Digital Scholarship.

    – Successful applicants will receive a stipend of $3,000 for a minimum
    of one month and a maximum of two months.
    – Recent examples of collaborative projects have focused on the Center’s
    Open Data Initiative and have explored datasets created from Benjamin
    Franklin’s postal records, indenture records for servants and redemptioners
    coming through the port of Philadelphia during the 1770s, and a network
    visualization of correspondence networks of women scientists found in the
    APS’s collections.

    The APS’s Library & Museum’s collections make it among the premier
    institutions for documenting and exhibiting the history of the American
    Revolution and founding, the history of science from Newton to NASA, and
    Indigenous languages and culture. The Society’s collections include over 14
    million manuscripts, 275,000 bound volumes, 250,000 images, thousands of
    hours of audio tape, and 3,360 three-dimensional artifacts and fine art
    objects. It is home to three research centers: the Center for Native
    American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)
    (https://www.amphilsoc.org/library/CNAIR), which has worked with over 80
    Native American and Indigenous communities since 2014; the Center for
    Digital Scholarship (https://www.amphilsoc.org/center-digital-scholarship),
    which interprets and expands access to APS collections through digital
    projects and open source data; and the David Center for the American
    Revolution (https://www.amphilsoc.org/david-center-american-revolution), a
    partnership with the David Library of the American Revolution that formed a
    new research center for the American Revolution at the APS and brought the
    David Library’s collection of Revolutionary-era manuscripts, hundreds of
    rare books and pamphlets, 8,000 reference volumes, and 9,000 reels of
    microfilm to Philadelphia.

    Comprehensive, searchable guides and finding aids to our collections are
    available online at http://www.amphilsoc.org/library and
    http://amphilsoc.pastperfectonline.com/.

    *All application materials will be submitted online via Interfolio
    (https://apply.interfolio.com/116950
    (https://apply.interfolio.com/116950)).*

    Applicants must submit:

    – Cover letter
    – Curriculum vitae
    – Proposal for a digital project including a detailed work plan and a
    proposed timeline for the fellowship term (no more than 4 double-spaced
    pages)
    – Examples of previous digital humanities projects (if available)
    – Two confidential letters of reference

    The Center for Digital Scholarship promotes the holdings of the APS’s
    Library & Museum through digitization, digital humanities, and the
    development of tools and software. We partner with scholars, institutions,
    and students from across the country to explore what digital scholarship
    means in a small, independent research library. We ask questions about our
    role within the field of digital scholarship, and we find answers through
    practice and experimentation. To learn more about the Center for Digital
    Scholarship, and to explore our recent projects, please visit us here
    (https://www.amphilsoc.org/center-digital-scholarship).

    *Deadline: March 3, 2023 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.*

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