FACULTY AWARD: Martin receives New Directions Fellowship

By Office of Communications on April 27, 2015, 1:48 p.m.

Meredith Martin, associate professor of English and director of the Digital Humanities Center, has been awarded a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The fellowship provides support to early career scholars in the humanities for advanced training in pursuit of a specific research agenda. Martin will expand her expertise in late 19th-century poetry through an innovative plan of interdisciplinary humanistic study.

Enlisting the help of computer scientists and librarians, Associate Professor of English Meredith Martin began in 2011 to build the Princeton Prosody Archive, a full-text searchable database of more than 10,000 digitized records published between 1750 and 1923. Currently in beta-testing, the Prosody Archive will be accessible to the public this year, with full access to the archive by 2017.

African Digital Humanities Project at Princeton awarded over $600,000 in two NEH grants .

Princeton has received two major grants, totaling over $600,000, from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean and Egyptian Miracles of Mary digital humanities project — increasing access to early African texts in the U.S. and other English-speaking countries, and helping ensure that humanities scholarship and curriculums are founded on a more global canon.

Four faculty members honored for excellence in mentoring graduate students .

Four Princeton University faculty members have been named recipients of the Graduate Mentoring Awards and will be honored during the Graduate School’s virtual Hooding ceremony at 4 p.m., Monday, May 24.

Two professors, two undergraduate alumni awarded Rome Prize in arts and humanities .

Princeton faculty members Anna Arabindan-Kesson and Michael Meredith, and undergraduate alumni Tung-Hui Hu and Parker Sutton, have been awarded the Rome Prize, which supports advanced independent work in the arts and humanities.

Sixteen faculty members transfer to emeritus status .

Sixteen Princeton University faculty members were transferred to emeritus status in recent action by the Board of Trustees.

Six Princeton students join Mellon Mays Fellowship to diversify professoriate .

Six undergraduates have been named 2018 Mellon Mays fellows, marking the 30th group of Princeton students who have been selected for the prestigious national award to diversify faculty.

Code the ode: Center for Digital Humanities marries technology and humanistic studies .

The new Center for Digital Humanities — "a nexus of engagement with transformative technologies" that will foster and support interdisciplinary projects across the humanities, computer sciences and library sciences — will open with a reception at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29, at the center's new home in Green Hall.