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Digital Dissertation Scholars Program

The Digital Dissertation Scholars Program (DDSP) is open to Laney Graduate School doctoral students in any humanistic discipline who are preparing for their dissertation prospectus, currently creating their prospectus, or will have just created their prospectus.

This one-year program prepares doctoral students to create meaningful and lasting digital scholarship projects by equipping them with adequate knowledge of theories, methods, and technologies in digital scholarship, an understanding of how digital projects are developed sustainably and with accessibility issues in mind, and training to write about development processes.

The program provides students with access to training, expertise, and mini-grant funds (up to $2,000) to plan and create digital dissertation components. These components will be submitted with the written dissertation to Emory Libraries' Electronic Theses and Dissertations Repository and preserved as part of the Emory Libraries' Digital Library Program.

Students work closely their advisors, an interdisciplinary cohort of fellow students, and digital scholarship professionals to tailor a plan that is customized to their project needs. They may apply for mini-grant funds towards digital dissertation research needs including:

  • Data and software subscription costs
  • Digitization costs for source material
  • Paid web development time
  • Temporary hosting
  • Travel for digital dissertation research
  • Travel and registration for conferences and training in digital scholarship theories and methods not available at Emory

Students in the program are expected to attend all cohort meetings through the year and give a public presentation in the spring semester.

DDSP is sponsored by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and the Digital Publishing in the Humanities initiative at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

ELIGIBILITY

Information about how to apply for future programs is coming soon!

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