The Center for Black Digital Research (#DigBlk)

Fellowship Opportunities for Graduate Students, Post-docs, and Faculty

This program provides a graduate research assistantship with the opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary cohort including graduate student leaders, undergraduate researchers, postdoctoral fellows, librarians, IT specialists, scholars, and community and university partners from within the institution and beyond.

#DigBlk projects are committed to Black archive-building and utilize digital methods and public engagement to introduce buried histories of Black organizing to scholarly and broader public audiences.

#DigBlk Scholars receive:

  • Enhanced funding packages

  • Summer support and digital training opportunities

  • Professional development funds to advance your research and training opportunities

  • Startup funds

  • Intellectual community and cohort support

#DigBlk Scholars Graduate Assistantships

#DigBlk Mellon Graduate Assistantship

Each year, the Center for Black Digital Research (#DigBlk) seeks two Graduate Assistants to support the CBDR and the Mellon Just Transformations (JT) grant. This is an opportunity to work with a vibrant Administrative team that manages the day-to-day operations of innovative scholarly and public-facing work in a collective, collaborative community.

The Penn State College of the Liberal Arts and the Center for Black Digital Research (#DigBlk) seek applications from Big Ten Alliance graduate students for a pre-doctoral fellowship focusing on digital research and Black organizing in the long nineteenth century.

Applicants should hail from historically underrepresented racial minority (URM) groups or be engaged in deep and demonstrated social justice and diversity work and be involved in research that directly overlaps with the Center’s central projects.

#DigBlk Mellon Big 10 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

Are you interested in learning more about graduate studies in African American literature, language, and culture? Do you want to learn about opportunities for enhanced funding packages to do digital research and public scholarship? Have you considered a dual-title PhD in African American Studies?

Join the next cohort of Cooper – Du Bois fellows and spend three days participating in programming to learn more about Penn State’s dual-title Ph.D. in African American and Diaspora Studies, opportunities for enhanced funding, and the new Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk.

Cooper-Du Bois Mentoring Program

The Center for Black Digital Research (#DigBlk) is committed to bringing Black organizing in the long nineteenth century to digital life. The Center’s graduate leaders, faculty directors, and team have been recognized not only for their projects’ scholarly interventions and work in digital arenas, but also for creating structures that foreground shared leadership and just compensation, citation, and acknowledgment practices.