We are delighted to announce the recipients of our sixth annual NYCDH Graduate Student Digital Project Awards for 2019. The awardees are:
| Abi Muñoz and Yuguang Zhang (NYU), “Experimental Short Film Using Machine Learning” | First Prize – $1000 |
| Michèle Duguay (CUNY Graduate Center), “Gendering Virtual Space: Locating Women’s Voices in Recorded Popular Music” | Second Place (tied) – $500 |
| Elizabeth Lee (NYU), “Buddhas in the Landscape: Medieval Rock Carvings of Buddhist Deities on the Korean Peninsula” | Second Place (tied) – $500 |
| Sean Miller (CUNY Graduate Center), “Binary Gender Classification in Natural Language Processing and its Implications for Non-Cisgender Individuals” | Honorable Mention |
| Carlos Yebra López (NYU), “Saved by the Digital: The Community-based Online Archiving of the Global Sephardic Diaspora in the 21st Century” | Honorable Mention |
| Willamae Boling (Pratt), “Gender Reveal Party” | Honorable Mention |
About the NYCDH Student Digital Award: First offered in 2014, the NYCDH graduate student awards are open to graduate students from the NYC metropolitan area who are pursuing DH projects. Applications are judged by a board selected from the NYCDH steering committee. Winning projects are selected based on intellectual contributions to the field, innovative uses of technology, and work plans that are clear and reasonable given the time and funding available.
Previous Winners:
About NYCDH: The New York City Digital Humanities group brings together New York City scholars from area universities and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) institutions to share their work and collaborate with each other.
To learn more about NYCH and to join our community, see https://nycdh.org/about/
