UW Humanities Data Science Summer Institute 2024

After a successful launch in 2023, the Interdisciplinary Minor in Data Science at UW will host its second annual Humanities Data Science Summer Institute in June and July of 2024.

We seek applications for the following positions:

• faculty/staff to lead a student group
• graduate student research assistants
• undergraduate student research fellows

Call for applications for undergraduate students

The Interdisciplinary Minor in Data Science at UW is organizing a “Humanities Data Science Summer Institute,” which will pair undergraduate and graduate students with UW faculty or staff members who are engaged in humanities data science research during term A of Summer 2024 (June 17–July 16, 2024).

We are inviting applications from UW undergraduate students who are keen to learn humanities data science in a project-based, small group experience. Students will work in small teams (ideally 2-3 students) under faculty/staff supervision and with direct assistance from a graduate student mentor. Students will participate in hands-on training workshops to acquire technical skills in working with humanities data, and they will also work in a group and independently to complete the research objectives determined by their faculty/staff project leader.

The topic of the research projects will be determined by the faculty/staff supervisor for the research group. Projects will answer a clearly defined research question drawn from humanities scholarship, involve data-intensive analysis, use an open source programming language, and include key findings that can be communicated through a combination of data visualization and narrative text. Successful applicants are expected to contribute to a group-authored poster presentation at the UW undergraduate research symposium in the following Spring.

Undergraduate students will be expected to work for a minimum of 20 hours per week during term A of Summer 2024. Additionally, they will be expected to conduct the majority of this work onsite, in-person, and during regular business hours.

Successful undergraduate student applicants will receive a $2000 fellowship—half at the beginning of the program and half on completion. Students will also register for independent study credits, which will count towards the Data Science Minor. Priority will be given to students who have declared, or plan to declare, the Data Science Minor.

Please submit the following via this form by 23 Feb. 2024:

• One page summary of your interests, skills, activities, accomplishments, and future plans relevant to humanities data science, e.g. coursework completed in the Minor or other relevant classes, workshops attended, future plans for taking courses in the Data Science Minor, etc.
• Current CV
• Name and email address of one faculty with whom you have recently taken a class that we can request a letter of recommendation from