Announcing the ASEH-Gale Non-Residential Fellowship

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The ASEH announces three non-residential scholarships funded by the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. 

The ASEH-Gale Non-Residential Fellowship will support research or teaching projects that rely on Gale Primary Sources and use digital humanities methodologies. Award fellows will be given free access to Gale Digital Scholar Lab to use with Environmental History for the duration of their fellowship. Applicants may also request access to other Gale Collections related to their research (https://www.gale.com/primary-sources). Applicants must make clear how they will use digital methods such as text mining and the corpus of materials in Gale Primary Sources to further their research or teaching. The Digital Scholar Lab is designed for researchers new to digital humanities methods or with no coding experience, and the fellowships do not require prior experience with text mining.

There will be three ASEH-Gale Non-Residential Fellowships available. Each award will be $2,500 USD. Fellowships will be awarded by June 1, 2024 and must be completed by November 30, 2024.  

Recipients of the Gale Fellowship will be invited to submit a panel proposal at the 2025 ASEH Annual Conference, where they will have the opportunity to share the results of their research projects. In addition, Fellows will receive an additional $500 stipend from Gale to present their work at the ASEH 2025 conference in Pittsburgh, to assist with their travel and accommodation expenses. 

Find examples from previous Gale Digital Fellowship projects on this website: https://www.gale.com/intl/primary-sources/digital-humanities/fellowships/case-studies

The application deadline is Wednesday, May 10th at 11:59 pm ET

Who is eligible? 

  • Applicants must be members of the ASEH.
  • The fellowship is open to early career scholars, including graduate students who have advanced to Ph.D. Candidacy (ABD), and/or individuals who have completed their Ph.Ds. within the past five academic years (May 2019 to Present) are welcome to apply.

How to apply:

Please submit a CV (maximum 3 pages) and a project proposal (maximum 1000 words) via the link below. The project proposal should include a research question, a discussion of proposed methods and the sources the applicant plans to use. Please discuss how the primary source database will help advance the project.

Prospective fellows can submit applications using our online form here.

Gale will host a virtual information session at which they will share with potential applicants more details on the functionality of Gale Digital Scholar Lab. The workshop will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 1pm EST. Click here to join the meeting.

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Jim Clifford

Associate Professor at University of Saskatchewan
Jim Clifford is an associate professor of environmental history at the University of Saskatchewan. He published West Ham and the River Lea: A Social and Environmental History of London’s Industrialized Marshland, 1839–1914 with the UBC Press in 2017.

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