The ASA DH Caucus Ángel David Nieves Book Awards memorialize the profound scholarly, social justice, and personal impacts of Dr. Nieves on his colleagues and the field of digital humanities. The Ángel David Nieves 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 these awards, we seek submissions that:

• promote the development of interdisciplinary research on U.S. culture and history in a global context
• grapple with the most urgent questions and issues in studying at the intersection of American Studies and Digital Humanities, and
• feature anti-racist, anti-/de-/postcolonial, feminist, collaborative, and/or activist modes and methods. 

Book projects published via open access, and through small, independent, or not-for-profit presses are especially encouraged. If submissions are not open access, a digital copy must be submitted to be considered for the award.

Monograph Award

For the monograph award, we seek single-author or collaborative endeavours offering extended discussion on theory and/or praxis at the intersection of American Studies and Digital Humanities. If submissions are not open access, digital copies of the monograph must be submitted with the nomination for review. 

Edited Collection Award

The ASA DH Caucus seeks to recognize the vital work of edited collections across the academic and institutional landscape. Edited collections represent important epistemological, theoretical and practical innovations, and is a genre that can provide field-defining terminology. At the same time, edited collections, by their very structure, place authors in conversation with a theme and or invite polyvocality.  Edited collections offer an opportunity to showcase a wide variety of methodological approaches and terrains. Making edited collections more legible for career progression across academe is also a goal of this award.     

For the edited collection award, we seek submissions that recognise the epistemological value of the collection; provide field-defining or field-transforming terminology, methodology, and/or praxis; invite multiple perspectives on a theme; and engage in ethical collaborative labor processes.

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

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:

• model ethical and equitable collaborations that responsibly reflect on the politics of collaborative research in the digital humanities
• participate in transparent and open scholarly practices
• 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)
• address these topics through anti-racist, feminist, community-led, and/or activist modes and methods.

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.

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.

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