WHO WE ARE
The Meliora Digital & Interdisciplinary Fellowship trains graduate students in the humanities to integrate digital technologies and interdisciplinary practices into innovative, multimodal research programs.
The fellowship program is based on the premise that the affordances of digital technology and interdisciplinary (and often collaborative) practices enhance humanities research and pedagogy in important ways. Humanities scholars today can take advantage of digital research and discovery tools that allow access to and analysis of large amounts of information, in addition to multiple pathways to disseminate such new forms of knowledge.
Humanities scholars trained in this way are strategically poised to reframe enduring questions in the humanities while conceptualizing new lines of inquiry, expanding the parameters of humanities research and teaching.
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WHAT WE DO
Fellows learn both about and through technology in the context of their own and others’ research
They learn through theory (coursework, seminars, speakers), practice (technology training, project building, mentoring), and combinations of the two (workshops, critical making).
Fellows in the program serve simultaneously as humanities apprentices and mentors, both within their cohort of graduate students and in communities of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members
CONTACT US
Program Director: Joanne Bernardi
joanne.bernardi@rochester.edu
Humanities Center
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627-045