[UCR-DS] On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance, Call for Proposals

[Rachel Lynne Starry]

Please find details below about a Mellon-funded digital scholarship fellowship opportunity for graduate and faculty fellows. An information session about the opportunity is being held next week (June 28)!

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The University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is excited to announce a call for proposals to expand the project On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance (OTB).  OTB has created two publicly accessible, plain-text corpora: one of all North Carolina Session Laws from 1866/67-1967, and a second one composed of laws likely to be Jim Crow laws, based on machine learning. Other outputs include a GitHub repository of documented scripts created for the project, a methodology white paper, and a website<https://onthebooks.lib.unc.edu/> for educators and researchers interested in Southern and African American history. Now we're excited to see all the ways scholars will use it!



OTB has received support from The Andrew W. Mellon foundation to fund three graduate fellows ($2,500 each) and two faculty fellows ($10,000 each) to design and execute a research project using products from On the Books. Scholars and researchers from all disciplines are invited to submit proposals for a project that meaningfully utilizes any of the products created by On the Books. Graduate Research Fellows will have 6 months to complete their projects and Faculty Research Fellows will have 12 months. A combination of fellowships may be used for a single project.



 The call for proposals will go through July 15, 2022. The project team is interested in workshopping ideas and providing feedback, so please feel free contact us with any questions, thoughts, or ideas. For more information, see the Call for Proposals [https://onthebooks.lib.unc.edu/get-involved/research-fellows] and register to attend our (optional) information session June 28, 2022, at 10:30 am [https://calendar.lib.unc.edu/event/9290906?f=h].



Questions may be directed to Brianna Nunez, On the Books<On%20the%20Books> Program Manager, UNC-Chapel Hill, bynunez at unc.edu.

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