Digital Humanities and the Undergraduate: Campus Projects Recognized

Two campus-based projects have been selected to receive the NITLE Community Contribution Award (October 2010). Congratulations to the winners:

• English 170: The Practice of Criticism (Paul Schacht, Professor of English; Rob Doggett, Associate Professor of English; Caroline Woidat, Associate Professor of English; and Gillian Paku, Assistant Professor of English: all of SUNY Geneseo)
• The Early Novels Database (Rachel Buurma, Assistant Professor of English, Swarthmore College)

The award provides winners with a small honorarium and an opportunity for project leaders to publish case studies with Academic Commons. Case studies will be published in April 2011, under the theme “Digital Humanities and the Undergraduate.”

NITLE especially thanks our selection committee for this round of awards: Janet Simons, Associate Director, Instructional Technology Support Services, and Co-Director, Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), Hamilton College; Michael Spalti, Associate University Librarian for Systems, Willamette University; and Kathryn Tomasek, Associate Professor of History, Wheaton College (Massachusetts).