Announcing our Digital Scholarship IASH fellows

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CDCS are looking forward to welcoming our Digital Scholarship IASH fellows who will visit Edinburgh later this year.

The Digital Scholarship Visiting Research Fellowships are intended to encourage outstanding, digitally-focussed, interdisciplinary research, international scholarly collaboration, and networking activities, with a specific focus on the digital. 

Both of our fellows will take up their posts in summer 2022.  Dr Jennifer Guiliano will be a Digital Scholarship Visiting Research Fellow between June and July 2022. She is a white academic living and working on the lands of the Myaamia/Miami, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, Wea, and Shawnee peoples. She currently holds a position as Associate Professor in the Department of History and affiliated faculty in both Native American and Indigenous Studies and American Studies at IUPUI in Indianapolis, Indiana.  As part of her Decolonizing Knowledge Production through Linked Open Data project she will spend two months exploring knowledge production as it relates to the Scottish context of Indigenous data. This will build upon work completed in the United States of America and Canada as Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities at the University of Guelph. 

Our Digital Postdoctoral Fellow will be Dr Mallika Leuzinger from June - November 2022. Mallika Leuzinger studied History and Gender Studies at Cambridge University and completed her PhD in Art History at University College London. She has since been a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and a visiting researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin, where she is part of the Department of Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region. Her project Archival Imaginaries and the Politics of History in South Asia looks at the rise of digital crowdsourced platforms dealing in histories of the Indian subcontinent. It asks how, why and for whom these platforms constitute 'archives'. It examines the affective, material, visual and geopolitical registers they deploy and conjure, situating them in relation to institutional and/or stubbornly analogue collections; activist media projects; and popular history initiatives in Africa and the Middle East.

We's also like to welcome some other IASH fellows, working on projects related to CDCS interests, and look forward to meeting and supporting their work too. 

Dr Victor Peterson II will be taking up the position of RACE.ED Archival Research Fellow from April - June 2022. Victor Peterson II's (PhD, King's College London) research centres on Articulation theory--how relations of subordination and dominance emerge--as well as global conceptions of blackness and the sound of social movements. Archiving Mood: Black Sound and Social Movements will study how changes in modes of expression map changes in the socio-political structures to which they respond. During his time at the Institute, Peterson will consider songs as archives of the sentiment of a time and place. 

Dr Lucy Hinnie will be taking up the post of Postdoctoral Fellow from March - August 2022. Lucy R. Hinnie completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2019. From 2019-21, she held a Leverhulme Study Abroad Scholarship as a white settler scholar on Treaty Six Territory and the Homeland of the Métis at the University of Saskatchewan, where she was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Department of English and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Her project title is A Scottish Querelle: Debating the Feminine in the Bannatyne MS (c. 1568). This fellowship will support research for Lucy’s monograph work on the Bannatyne manuscript, which will offer the first in-depth reading of the Bannatyne Manuscript as a misogynist text. 

Dr Aida Vallejo is currently a Nominated Fellow, for the period December 2021 – July 2022.  Aida Vallejo is associate professor at the University of the Basque Country (Spain), where she teaches Documentary Film Theory and Practice, and Narrative Theory. A Film Historian (PhD, Autonomous University of Madrid), and documentary expert (MA, Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aida is the founder and coordinator of the Documentary workgroup of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) and principal investigator of ikerFESTS research project, which maps film festivals in the Basque context. Her project IDFmap: Mapping Institutes of Documentary Film will create a global map of institutes for the promotion of documentary film and will analyse their role as intermediaries between industry and creativity. It will pay particular attention to their relationships with film festivals, professional networks and geo-cultural areas of influence.

CDCS is also looking forward to working with Professor Gerardine Meaney as she takes up her European Fellowship, which is ongoing until May 2022. Gerardine Meaney is Professor of Cultural Theory and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analytics in the School of English, Drama and Film at UCD. Her research focuses on the dynamics of cultural change and exchange, with a particular focus on gender, migration, and the integration of literary scholarship and data analytics.  Gerardine is working on European Migrants in the British Imagination: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture. This project works at the intersection of data analytics and literary analysis to understand the impact of European population mobility on the formation of British cultural nationalism in the nineteenth century and the transmission of that formation through narrative and adaptation into the twenty first century.

 

Applications for visiting fellowships are now closed for this year. We are accepting applications for Digital Scholarship postdoctoral fellowships and bursaries for 2022-2023.

Read about the IASH fellows: Future Fellows | IASH (ed.ac.uk)