DEFCon Capacity Building Fellowship Application
The Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invite proposals for grants to support curriculum development for digital ethnic studies at regional comprehensive universities.

For full details of our funding opportunities, please visit: http://digitalethnicfutures.org/grants/

DEFCon
DEFCon is a consortium that supports the growth of the digital ethnic studies field, which brings together critiques of racial capitalism, community-engaged approaches to research, and digital humanities methodologies. Complementing work in discrete fields like Black and Latinx digital humanities, digital ethnic studies draws on the affordances of ethnic studies, an interdisciplinary examination of difference that foregrounds race, ethnicity, and indigeneity through a comparative framework. Through digital methods, digital ethnic studies explores connections and divergences between people of color and Indigenous people in the U.S., articulated through a range of digital genres, including digital archives, social media, and data visualization. Moreover, digital ethnic studies places at its forefront the community-engaged research practices that are integral to ethnic studies and its commitment to research with (not on) communities.

DEFCon Capacity Building Fellowships
DEFCon Capacity Building Fellowships support curricular design (e.g. minors or certificates). DEFCon Capacity Building Fellows develop curriculum (e.g. minors, certificates) in digital humanities with strong engagement with one or more ethnic studies fields (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American studies). DEFCon Capacity Building Fellows receive a stipend of $5,000 (100 hours @ $50/hour), which can be used as compensation for work time, to pay for childcare, and/or pay for professional development for faculty colleagues who will teach in the program being developed. They will meet bi-weekly with a mentor and monthly with a group of fellows, led DEFCon Steering Committee member. The deliverables for the DEFCon Capacity Building Fellowship are a curriculum map, course syllabi, and a governance timeline for the program being developed.

Eligibility: Faculty or teaching librarians (or a team) at public colleges and universities (excluding R1s) in the U.S. or U.S. territories who have previously developed a course independently or through a DEFCon Teaching Fellowship but have not developed curricular initiatives (minors, certificates, majors). Contingent faculty are eligible to apply, provided that they hold a role in which they participate in curricular development at their institution. Recipients must be members of DEFCon. Joining DEFCon is free and easy! See our Community page at http://digitalethnicfutures.org for details.

Deadline: January 10, 2022
Notification: January 24, 2022
Deliverable Due: September 1, 2022
Stipend Disbursement: September 15, 2022

Please direct questions to Roopika Risam (Consortium Director) at digitalethnicfutures@gmail.com
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Name *
Email Address
Institution *
Title or role *
Department(s) *
How would you rate your experience level with digital humanities? (1 = no experience; 3 = some experience; 5 = significant experience) *
How would you rate your experience level with Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and/or Asian American studies? (1 = no experience; 3 = some experience; 5 = significant experience) *
How many digital humanities courses have you taught? *
What topics have you taught in digital humanities courses? *
If you have taught Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and/or Asian American studies, what topics did you cover?
Proposed Minor or Certificate Title *
In which department(s) would the proposed program be offered? *
Please describe the proposed program, including 1) number of courses, 2) whether it is for graduate or undergraduate students, 3) how it integrates both digital humanities and Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and/or Asian American studies, and 4) whether it includes a community-engaged component. (400 words max) *
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