Announcing DH2018 ACH Scholarships

Seeking to foster stronger collaborations with colleagues in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America, this year, ACH supported the participation of ten early career scholars at DH2018.

The following scholars will receive the award:

  • Melanie Walsh (US) “Tweets of a Native Son: James Baldwin, #BlackLivesMatter, and Networks of Textual Recirculation.”
  • Sandra Leticia Reyes Alvarez (Mexico) “Filosofar la tecnología: un camino educativo.”
  • Sylvia Fernández (US) “De la teoría a la práctica: Visualización digital de las comunidades en la frontera México-Estados Unidos.”
  • Gabrielle Vail (US) “Harnessing Emergent Digital Technologies to Facilitate North-South, Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Conversations about Indigenous Community Identities and Cultural Heritage in Yucatán.”
  • Hannah Reardon (Canada) “Bridging Divides for Conservation in the Amazon: Digital Technologies & The Calha Norte Portal.”
  • Camilo Martínez (Colombia) “Milpaís: Una Wiki Semántica Para Recuperar, Compartir Y Construir Colaborativamente Las Relaciones Entre Plantas, Seres Humanos, Comunidades Y Entornos.”
  • Talia Méndez Mahecha (Colombia) “Si Las Humanidades Digitales Fueran Un Círculo Estaríamos Hablando De La Circunferencia Digital.”
  • Andres Lombana (Colombia) “Cultura participativa y archivos digitales: La catalogación colaborativa del Archivo Histórico Regional de Boyacá (Colombia).”
  • Cecile Armand (France) “Bridging Cultures Through Mapping Practices: Space and Power in Asia and America.”
  • Chelsea Miya (Canada) “The Two Moby Dicks: The Split Signatures of Melville’s Novel.”

Congratulations to the awardees and thank you to the DH2018 Local Organizing Committee for managing the competition!

By Alex Gil

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