The CAF Faculty Research Fellow Application is open to all Texas Southern University faculty interested in producing research focused on Black Digital Humanities. Projects should engage in research questions focused on Africana Futures in ways that integrate or extend research methods and practices in Black Digital Humanities.

Center for Africana Futures (CAF) Research Fellowships support research development, design, and implementation, culminating in the publication of research results and knowledge distribution. Fellows develop research projects that explore topics from one or more Black studies fields (Communication, History, Sociology, English, Political Science, and other allied fields) and digital humanities. Research projects with a community-engaged component can be in development (requiring seed funds) or more fully developed (Fellows Funding). CAF Research Fellows receive a stipend of $5,000 ($2500 for seed funding) to support their research development. This stipend will be paid based on reports submitted to the CAF Project Director discussing progress and final submission of course development.

CAF Research Fellows will also meet regularly with the CAF Project Director and Research Director, who will support research development within Black Digital Humanities and Texas Southern University protocols.

CAF Research Fellows expects to fund projects focused on Black Digital Humanities and Africana Futures. Research fellows should have a developed set of research ideas related to digital humanities theories, methods, and practices.

The deliverables for this program include mid-project and final project reports on the development and one public presentation on the research project to the CAF and TSU communities. These materials will be deposited with the Center for Africana Futures.

Application Deadline: March 31, 2024

Notification: April 15, 2024

Mid-Project Deliverable Due: August 15, 2024

Final Project Deliverable DUE: November 30, 2024

Research Presentation: December 2024

Stipend Disbursement: August 2024 and January 2025

The Center for Africana Futures (CAF) Faculty Teaching Fellow Application is open to all Texas Southern University faculty interested in course development focused on Black Digital Humanities. Courses should engage in research questions focused on Africana futures in ways that integrate or extend practices in Black Digital Humanities and discipline-specific topics, theories, methods, and pedagogies.

The CAF Teaching Fellowships support course design. Fellows develop a course that explores topics from one or more Black studies fields (Communication, History, Sociology, English, Political Science, and other allied fields) and digital humanities. Courses that include community-engaged components are especially welcome. CAF Teaching Fellows receive a stipend of $5,000 to support their course development. This stipend will be paid based on reports submitted to the CAF Project Director discussing progress and final submission of course development.

CAF Teaching Fellows will also meet regularly with the CAF Project Director and Research Director, who will support course development within Black Digital Humanities and Texas Southern University protocols.

The deliverable for this program is a syllabus for the course, assignment materials, and submission to the Department, College/School, and University Curriculum Committees. In addition, these materials will be deposited with the Center for Africana Futures for use and delivery within the development of the academic program(s) and/or certificate(s).

Application Deadline: March 31, 2024

Notification: April 20, 2024

Deliverable Due: November 1, 2024

Stipend Disbursement: December 2024

Eligibility: Faculty (contingent and tenure-line) and librarians at Texas Southern University. Graduate Students are not eligible for this program.

Recipients must agree to share their work with the Center for Africana Futures and the Texas Southern Community. Research Fellows must also agree to serve as reviewers and mentors for future research fellows.

CAF is part of DEFCon

DEFCon is a consortium that supports the growth of the digital ethnic studies field, which brings together critiques of racial capitalism, community-engaged approaches to research, and digital humanities methodologies. Complementing work in discrete fields like Black and Latinx digital humanities, digital ethnic studies draws on the affordances of ethnic studies, an interdisciplinary examination of difference that foregrounds race, ethnicity, and indigeneity through a comparative framework. Through digital methods, digital ethnic studies explore connections and divergences between people of color and Indigenous people in the U.S., articulated through various digital genres, including digital archives, social media, and data visualization. Moreover, digital ethnic studies places community-engaged research practices integral to ethnic studies at the forefront and its commitment to research with (not on) communities.

Please direct questions to Dr. Toniesha L. Taylor (CAF Director) at toniesha.taylor@tsu.edu