The ASA Digital Humanities Caucus Digital Project Prize was created in recognition of the contributions of Susan Garfinkel, one of the founders and long-standing member of the ASA DH Caucus.  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.

DH Project Award Submission Form

Newcomer Project Award
For the Newcomer Project Award, we invite project submissions that are in developmental/seed stages. These projects should have been running less than 3 years. Submissions should reflect on both realized, measurable impacts, as well as imagined/speculative goals of your project. As well, we invite project collaborators to speak to the impacts of changes to the funding landscape.   

Legacy Project Award
For the Legacy Project Award the caucus invites submissions of projects that have been running for over 3 years, and have produced measurable impact on related fields and communities in that time span. Submissions should reflect on project maintenance practices (i.e., preservation, sunsetting, or storage), institutional support and/or recognition received during that time, challenges that have been overcome (i.e., ongoing funding, etc.), and approaches to data management and ethics.

Submitted projects and books should have been published, completed or significantly updated during the 2024 calendar year. The Digital Humanities Caucus will announce the prize winners at the ASA conference in November 2025. 

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.

The DH Caucus is accepting proposals now through August 29th, 2025.

Please don't hesitate to reach out with questions! The Caucus can be reached by emailing asadhcaucus@gmail.com, or by emailing our current chair, Khanh Vo, at khanh_vo@brown.edu