2021 Digital Humanities Contest
First Prize - $200
Deadline - 27 March 2021
View the 2021 Winning Projects
Contest CFP
The Digital Humanities Crossroads Contest invites undergraduate and graduate students to showcase their Digital Humanities research at the Crossroads Humanities Student Conference.
Digital technologies have become embedded in nearly all aspects of daily life, and they have become integral to the preservation, analysis, and communication of information in scholarship and public discourse. This contest encourages students to develop the academic and professional skills necessary to navigate and participate as active contributors in modern day networks of information and digital literacies.
Those participating in the Crossroads Humanities Student Conference are eligible to submit their conference research to this contest. Projects may employ digital tools to annotate and translate texts, classify and organize information, analyze and visualize data, generate interactive texts and art, collaborate content with the public, and more. We encourage the use of digital tools, like Voyant, Palladio, Gephi, Scalar, Omeka, ArcGIS, etc. The contest also invites students to code original apps and programs that may be used in the humanities.
Introductory information on Digital Humanities and resources are available on the Humanities Center website: https://hcas.nova.edu/humanities. To learn more about DH, we also invite you to attend our pre-conference workshop, March 2 (6-8pm EST) led by Sarah Stanley, the Digital Humanities Librarian at Florida State University.
Submitted projects should speak to the Crossroads Conference 2021 theme, “Networks.”
Eligibility
You must be an accepted participant presenting at the 3rd Annual Crossroads Humanities Student Conference (10 April 2021).
You may submit your project as an individual or team. Each individual or team is limited to one project submission.
Your entry must be in English or accompanied by an English-language version.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit your project to humanities@nova.edu by 27 March 2021 with the subject header “DH Contest Submission.”
Each submission must include:
Full Name
If you are submitting your project as a team, include the names of each contributor.
Title of Project
Completed Presentation Paper
5-7 pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font, 1-inch margins
Sources cited in MLA, APA, or Chicago style
Word doc/docx or PDF format
Digital materials (if applicable)
Please link or attach any additional materials related to your project (e.g. video, audio file, website, etc.).
Evaluation Criteria
Your submission will be judged on:
Message – How clear and specific is the purpose of the project?
Relevance – How relevant is the project to Digital Humanities?
Innovation – How innovative is the project?
Impact – How impactful is the project and to whom?