Ogundimu awarded Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship

The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities has selected four Nebraska graduate students from a pool of competitive applicants to join its 2022 Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship program. Among the newly announced fellows is Olufunke Ogundimu, Ph.D. student in English with an emphasis in creative writing (fiction). Through the summer program, which comes with a $4,200 stipend, Ogundimu will build riot | émeute | randalieren, a centralized digital hub that will archive protests and agitations for the return of African arts looted from francophone, anglophone, arabophone and lusophone African countries.

Ogundimu received her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a Master's of Managerial Psychology and Bachelor of Science with education in chemistry, both from the University of Lagos. Her fiction has been published in Transition Magazine, New Orleans Review, Red Rock Review, Johannesburg Review of Books, Asymptote Journal, and Jalada Africa, among others. She is a Caine Prize for African Writing finalist, a Miles Morland Writing Scholarship finalist, and a Pushcart Prize winner. 

The Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship program runs from May 23 to Aug. 12 and will accelerate the fellows' research, scholarship, professional development and creative production. “During the fellowship, the students will receive guidance in launching their research project or, for some of our fellows, the opportunity to leverage new methods and new technologies to advance an ongoing project,” said  said. The fellowship provides access to hardware, software, shared workspace and the expertise of CDRH faculty and staff, as well as a collaborative work environment in the Dinsdale Family Learning commons, where fellows support each other through conversation, critical engagement and knowledge exchange.

The three other Digital Humanities Summer Fellows are:

Patrick Hoehne, a doctoral student in history will create a project that uses machine learning to facilitate interactive inquiry into the biases and positions of antebellum and Civil War-era partisan newspapers. Hoehne received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in history from Colorado State University.

Ethan Jensen, a doctoral student in geography will create a digital immersive simulation of the downtown of the village of Hallam, Nebraska, as it existed prior to its destruction by a tornado in 2004. Jensen received a Master of Science in biological sciences and a Bachelor of Science in fisheries and wildlife management from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Kevin Pflager, a graduate student in geography will work on a county level examination of the early days of farm consolidation in Lancaster County with the ultimate goal of the project being to show the first couple of snowflakes that became the avalanche of farm consolidation that is destroying farming communities and rural America today. Pflager received a Bachelor of Arts in economics with a minor in geography from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

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