The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) announces its cohort of DH fellows for the summer of 2025. The graduate students will participate in the program designed to support their research, scholarship, professional development and creative production skills. Each student receives a stipend and will spend the first half of the summer in a dedicated shared workspace at the Dinsdale Family Learning Commons under the mentorship of Carrie Heitman, director of the Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship.
“The Summer Fellowship a unique opportunity for students to engage in sustained conversations across fields and disciplines and each summer we emerge from the fellowship having been positively transformed by those interactions,” explained Heitman.
The four fellows are:
Silvia Hernández Crispín is a second year M.A. student in Modern Languages in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNL. She received her B.A. in Spanish and Literature, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia. Her Fellowship project "From Archive to Access: Preserving and Analyzing Elisa Mújica’s Forgotten Influence from Latin American Literature" focuses on preserving and analyzing approximately 100 critical reviews written by Elisa Mújica.
Aditya Sandeep Ghalsasi is a first-year doctoral student in Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNL. He received a M.A. in Government and a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from New Mexico State University and a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India. This summer, he will work on “Paradise Usurped under the Guise of Security” a digital archive that combines historical documents, maps, and oral histories related to the Chagos sovereignty dispute between the United Kingdom (UK) and Mauritius.
Eunhong Lee is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNL. She received her M.A. and B.A. in philosophy from Chung-Ang University, South Korea. Her project, "“Robert C. Solomon Digital Archive: Mapping Emotion, Existentialism, and Ethics” focuses on the works and philosophical contributions of Solomon—a leading scholar in the philosophy of emotions, existentialism, and business ethics.
Babatunde Okunlola is a first year M.A. student in Journalism in the College of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNL. He received his M.A. in Peace and Development Studies from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, and his B.A. in English Language from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria. His fellowship project, “Saving the Osun River; a Digital Archive of Osun River Pollution Investigations”, aims to digitize and create a searchable archive of underreported stories and investigations conducted on the Osun River's pollution over the past decade.
Summer 2025 will be the fourth year for the CDRH Digital Humanities Fellowship. So far, the program has served twelve graduate students from five different departments at UNL. This year's cohort will expand the program’s scope to eight different departments across three colleges. In 2025, the CDRH celebrates its 20th anniversary at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.