FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Recovering the US Hispanic Heritage Program

The University of Houston’s US Latino Digital Humanities Center is once again offering grants-in-aid through its Recovering the US Hispanic Heritage Program / US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. These grants provide a stipend of up to $7,500 to scholars for research and development of digital scholarship in the form of a digital publication and/or a digital project. From the call:

Proposals must draw from recovered primary and derivative sources produced by Latinas/os in what is now the United States, dating from the Colonial Period to 1980 (such as Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage collections, other repositories and/or the community).

The Grants-in-Aid program is designed to provide a stipend to scholars for research and development of digital scholarship in the form of a digital publication and/or a digital project. The grant covers any expense connected with research that will advance a project to the next stage or to a successful conclusion. Grantees are expected to present as part of the 2024 cohort virtual panel and produce a public-facing digital deliverable by December 2024.

Scholars will have the opportunity to publish their digital scholarship on Arte Público Press’ APPDigital publication platform.

Scholars at different stages of their careers (academics, librarians, advanced graduate students, independent scholars, etc.) are encouraged to apply for a stipend of up to $7,500 for investigative work. Grantees are expected to attend virtual trainings (dates to be announced). We welcome applications in the following areas:

• Identification, location and recovery of any wide variety of historical documents and/or literary genres, including conventional literary prose and poetry, and such forms as letters, diaries, memoirs, testimonials, periodicals, historical records and written expressions of oral traditions, folklore and popular culture. Any documents that could prove relevant to the goals of the program will also be considered. The emphasis is on works by Mexican/Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Spanish, Central and South American and other Latina/o residents of what has become the United States, from the Colonial period to 1980.
• Bibliographic compilations, indexing projects pertaining to any of the above. Compilation of reference works, e.g. bibliographic dictionaries, thematic datasets, linguistic corpus, etc.
• Study of recovered primary source(s) for potential digital publication, including: text analysis, thematic dataset creation, visualization, metadata creation, etc.
• US Latina voices.
• Underrepresented archives, such as Afrolatinidad, Indigenous, gender, LGBTQI+, etc.

To apply, please submit a letter of interest, project description (2-3 pages), proposed budget and CV as a single PDF document via email to apprec@central.uh.edu by Monday, January 8, 2024. Two letters of recommendation should be sent directly to apprec@central.uh.edu by the recommenders. All documentation (including letters) are due on January 8, 2024.