The DH Caucus of the American Studies Association now accepting proposals for the 2022 DH Caucus Digital Project and Book Prizes. 

The Digital Humanities Caucus welcomes submissions from all including college and university faculty; public scholars; university and K-12 educators including contingent faculty; students at the graduate, undergraduate, and even K-12 level; activists; artists; and all other researchers, creators, and thinkers. Projects in pedagogy, research, documentary, critical making, digital art, and all other forms are encouraged.

Submitted projects should have been published, completed or significantly updated during the 2022 calendar year. The Digital Humanities Caucus will celebrate the prize winners at the DH Caucus Lightning Shorts session at the 2023 American Studies Association conference in Montreal, Canada. 

ASA DH Caucus Digital Project Prize

The ASA DH Caucus Digital Project Prize was created in recognition of the contributions of Susan Garfinkel, one of the founders of the caucus and a long-standing member. The Digital Project Prize recognizes exceptional digital projects that grapple with urgent questions that are specifically situated in practices of scholarship at the intersection of American Studies and Digital Humanities. This award also recognizes the many kinds of labor–often invisible, gendered, and racialized–that make digital projects possible. 

For the Digital Project Prize, we especially seek submissions that: 1) model ethical and equitable collaborations that responsibly reflect on the politics of collaborative research in the digital humanities; 2) participate in transparent and open scholarly practices; 3) center research topics that "promote the development of interdisciplinary research on U.S. culture and history in a global context" (following ASA's stated purpose); 4) address these topics through anti-racist, feminist, community-led, and/or activist modes and methods.

ASA DH Caucus Book Award

The ASA DH Caucus Book Award recognizes exceptional work that grapples with urgent questions that are specifically situated in practices of studying at the intersection of American Studies, Digital Humanities, and Digital Studies.

For the DH Caucus Book Award, we especially seek submissions that: 1) center research topics that "promote the development of interdisciplinary research on U.S. culture and history in a global context" (following ASA's stated purpose); 2) address these topics through anti-racist, feminist, community-led, or activist modes and methods; 3) are written collaboratively; 4) engage the complicated politics at play in DH collaborative research. We seek not only scholarly monographs; we invite submissions of trade books, self-published collectively written zines, and other alternative formats.

Nominate a project or book:

The DH Caucus is accepting proposals now through August 25, 2023.

DH Caucus Digital Projects Prize Submission Form

DH Caucus Book Award Submission Form

PREVIOUS WINNERS:

2021

Digital Project Prize

• Co-Winner: Banana Craze // Project Team: Juanita Solano, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá; and Blanca Serrano, Project Director at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)
• Co-Winner: Photogrammar // Project Team: Lauren Tilton, University of Richmond; Taylor Arnold, University of Richmond; Laura Wexler, Yale University; Nathaniel Ayers, University of Richmond; Justin Madron, University of Richmond; Robert Nelson, University of Richmond

Honorable Mention

• A History of Domestic Work and Worker Organizing // Project Team: Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith College; and Michelle Joffroy, Smith College 

Book Award

• Editors Dorothy Kim, Adeline Koh for Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities (Punctum Books, June 2021) // Contributors: Bridget Blodgett, Alenda Chang, Edmond Chang, Jordan Clapper, Domenico Fiormonte, David Golumbia, Christy Hyman, Arun Jacob, Alexandra Juhasz, Dorothy Kim, Carly Kocurek, Viola Lasmana, Nalubega Ross, Jamal Russell, Anastasia Salter, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Siobhan Senier, Ravynn K. Stringfield

Book Award Honorable Mentions

• Catherine Knight Steele for Digital Black Feminism (NYU Press)
• Editors Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs for Digital Black Atlantic (University of Minnesota Press)

2020 

Digital Project Prize

• Taller Electric Marronage and Life x Code: DH Against Enclosure // Kin Curators: Yomaira C. Figueroa Vásquez and Jessica Marie Johnson; Lead Editor: Christina Thomas; Assistant Editors: Halle-Mackenzie Ashby, Stephany Bravo, Sarah Bruno, Kelsey Moore, Ayah Nuriddin, and Jada Similton 

Honorable Mentions

• Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde // Project Team: Susan Rosenbaum, Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia; Suzanne W. Churchill, Professor of English at Davidson College; Linda Kinnahan, Professor of English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh
• Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project //  Team Members
• Mapping the Gay Guides //Core Team: Dr. Amanda Regan, Co-Project Director and Digital Lead; Dr. Eric Gonzaba, Co-Project Director / Full Project Team

Inaugural Book Award Winner

• Catherine D'Ignazio (MIT) and Lauren F. Klein (Emory University) for Data Feminism (The MIT Press, 2020)

2019

Digital Project Prize (Garfinkel Prize)

• Matthew Delmont, Dartmouth College, Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers, published by Stanford University Press Digital Publishing Initiative 

Honorable Mentions

• Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America // Project team: Robert K Nelson, Justin Madron, and Nate Ayers, University of Richmond; LaDale Winling, Virginia Tech; Nathan Connolly, Johns Hopkins; Richard Marciano, University of Maryland
• La Gazette Royale d'Hayti: A Digital Journey Through Haiti's Early Print Culture by Marlene L. Daut, University of Virginia/Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

2018 

Digital Project Prize (Garfinkel Prize)

• Tara McPherson, Feminist in a Software Lab 

Honorable Mention

• Trials, Triumphs, and Transformations: Tennesseans’ Search for Citizenship, Community, and Opportunity 

2017

Digital Project Prize (Garfinkel Prize)

• Colored Conventions Project  

Honorable Mention

• Channel Islands National Park Web resource on Island of the Blue Dolphins / The Lone Woman and Last Indians Digital Archive

2016

Digital Project Prize (Garfinkel Prize)

• Narratives of Displacement and Resistance, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project 

Honorable Mention

• Early African American Film: Reconstructing the History of Silent Race Films, 1909-1930 (This project has been taken down, it is now shown via archive.org's Wayback Machine. It was also redesigned as part of a capstone project of a UCLA Digital Humanities undergraduate course and is available for view here.)