The Indiana University Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship Program helps Indiana University faculty members complete an interdisciplinary arts and/or humanities scholarly investigation or creative activity with a significant digital component in pursuit of tenure and/or promotion.
IDAH Faculty Fellowships are designed to a) promote cross-disciplinary and cross-functional campus collaborations, b) provide dedicated consultation for digital project development, and c) bridge funding gaps for faculty seeking promotion on the basis of a digital-arts or digital-humanities portfolio by providing flexible funding that addresses the significant invisible labor that faculty often face when pursuing digital projects. We generally accept proposals for an $11,000 course-release or up to $11,000 for justified hourly funding to supplement fundamental needs that are necessary for digital arts and humanities work but often go unfunded because of their routine yet necessary nature (e.g. transcription, cleaning/normalization of data/metadata, image processing). In the latter case, the application should clearly demonstrate: 1) that these tasks support the completion of a project, not its inception; and 2) that the product of these tasks will contribute a resource to teaching and/or research in the field.
Applications will be ranked based on 1) value of contribution to the field in general and on innovative use of digital methods in that contribution; and 2) on feasibility of completion within one year of funding and/or for projects where IDAH Faculty Fellowship provides additional funding to supplement outside grants will be prioritized. All else being equal, applications will be ranked by applicant's proximity to promotion to full faculty first, to associate faculty second, and finally to NTT promotion. In rare cases, IDAH will consider unique proposals that do not fit the course-release or hourly-support model.
Faculty applying for a second IDAH Faculty Fellowship within 4 years of the last successful fellowship must demonstrate progression through the ranks as a consequence of the previous fellowship and document how a new fellowship will substantially contribute to their next promotion case. Annual IDAH funding for multiple faculty working on the same project will be limited to the equivalent of 2 course releases.
All Indiana University tenured, tenure-eligible, and non-tenure track faculty are eligible to apply. Those employed at IU but not on the tenure-track, whose evaluation criteria include research or creative activity, are eligible to submit proposals with an explanation of the importance of research or creative activity to their evaluation in the letter of support from their chair or dean. Visiting and adjunct faculty, part-time faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students are not eligible.
If awarded, the IDAH Faculty Fellowship includes:
one-course teaching releasein the 2023-2024 year, pending approval by your department chair or hourly funding up to $11,000 to be applied toward the digital project and a $2,000 award to be applied toward your digital project, deposited to your research account,
OR up to $11,000 for justified hourly funding to supplement fundamental project needs, such as transcription, cleaning/normalization of data/metadata, image processing, etc.
10 hours of consultation support with the appropriate on-campus division arranged by IDAH, for technical, methods, sustainability or project-management planning at your discretion
In turn, IDAH Faculty Fellows are expected to:
sendbriefmonthly email updates about project progress and needs
meet with IDAH leadership, other IDAH Faculty Fellows and HASTAC Fellows once in the Fall and and once in the Spring
consult with IDAH at least once per semester
deliver a 20-minute presentation on the results of their IDAH Fellowship year as part of the IDAH Spring Symposium
lead an entry-level digital methods workshop with a focus on digital-methods pedagogy or research for faculty and graduate students in your department on a topic of your choice (including adapting a pre-developed IDAH workshop).
Application requirements are as follows:
three to four page (single spaced) Project Description that must provide specific information about your digital methods project, including a brief project plan/timeline for how you intend to use the course release time. The Project Description should also mention relevant collaborations, prospective grant funding, and project outcomes.
two to three page Curriculum Vitae
A brief letter of support from your department chair (less than 1 page). The letter from your chair does not need to be extensive, but should contain a 1-paragraph description of your project's value for your field and explicitly offer departmental support for the inclusion of your digital project as a significant and/or primary component of the dossier for your next promotion. We are happy to provide a template for your chair; email idah@indiana.edu
if you are requesting funding rather than a course release, please include a budget (up to $11,000) and budget narrative.
