2024 USLDH-Mellon Grants-in-Aid Recipients

The US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) Grants-in-Aid program, funded by the Mellon Foundation, is designed to provide a stipend of up to $7,500 to scholars for research and development of digital scholarship in the form of a digital publication and/or a digital project.

Congratulations to the 2024 Grants-in-Aid Recipients:

  • Marina del Sol, PhD (Howard University), Chicanx Arts Activism among Prison Poets and Writ Writers in Texas from 1848-1979
  • Diana Flores Ruíz, PhD (University of Washington, Seattle), Recovering Latinx Resistance
  • Aldo Lauria Santiago, PhD (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) and Ismael García Colón, PhD (City University of New York, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center), Documenting the Narratives of Puerto Rican Migration, 1940-1980 
  • Sarah McNamara (Texas A&M University), Nuestra Historia: A Public Art and Public History Project in Ybor City, Florida
  • Anna Nogar (University of New Mexico), Aurora Lucero-White Lea (1893-1963), 20th-Century Pan- Americanism, and Indo-Hispano Folklore
  • Annemarie Perez (California State University, Dominguez Hills), Recovering Marcella Lucero Trujillo: Digitalizing Memory, Space, and Place
  • Christofer Rodelo (University of California, Irvine), Performing Latinx Histories

The University of Houston US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH) is a digital scholarship/research undertaking to provide training and research on US Latino recovered materials. It is housed at Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage/Arte Público Press.

In 2019, the Mellon Foundation awarded the University of Houston with a grant to establish a first-of-its kind US Latino Digital Humanities Center in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. The program gives scholars expanded access to a vast collection of written materials produced by Latinos and archived by the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage (“Recovery”) program and UH’s Arte Público Press, the nation’s largest publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by Hispanic authors from the United States. View previous USLDH-Mellon grants-in-aid at: https://artepublicopress.com/recovery-program/grantsinaid/

Read more

Arte Público Press: https://artepublicopress.com/ 

The USLDH Center: https://artepublicopress.com/digital-humanities/ 

Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage: https://artepublicopress.com/recovery-program/ 

“Innovative UH Hispanic literary heritage project earns third Mellon grant: U.S. Latino Digital Humanities Center accumulated 1.2M for Hispanic research.” University of Houston, 30 Jan. 2023, https://uh.edu/class/news/archive/2023/january/innovative-uh-hispanic-literary-heritage-project-earns-third-mellon-grant/. Press release.

“US Latino Digital Humanities Program to Launch at UH with Mellon Foundation Grant.” University of Houston, 1 Aug. 2019, https://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2019/august-2019/07312019-us-latino-digital-humanities-program.php. Press release.

 

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