The Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship Pedagogy Fellowship is an opportunity for Notre Dame PhD students to build their teaching expertise, gain instructional experience, and engage in a community of practice. In addition to devising and delivering digital scholarship learning opportunities (including, but not limited to, geographic information systems, data analysis/visualization, natural language processing, and discipline-specific computational tools), fellows will gain experience in evidence-based and innovative instructional methods, collaborative teamwork, and communicating their research and scholarly interests outside of their discipline.
Check out our brochure that highlights the activities and accomplishments of the 2021-2022 cohort.
NFCDS Pedagogy Fellows will receive a stipend of $5,000 for approximately 5 hours per week of work over the course of an academic year.
[back to top]Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Wednesday, April 27, 2022, at 11:59pm
Thursday, April 28 – Monday, May 23, 2022
Friday, May 27, 2022
Friday, June 3, 2022
To be confirmed (targeting first week of fall 2022 term)
To be confirmed (targeting first week of fall 2022 term)
Applications are accepted from Wednesday, March 30, 2022, through Wednesday, April 27, 2022, at 11:59pm.
[back to top]Elizabeth is a fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Biology. Her research is focused on using genomics techniques to investigate the impact of environmental change on phenotypically divergent natural populations. It is her goal to deliver a workshop that leverages the experience that many researchers have in R programming to reinforce best practices in data analysis. This will lead to learning command line basics, and how the command line can be used with R and BASH scripting to develop custom data analysis pipelines.
Kenya is a third-year graduate student in the Sociology program. Her research focuses on school discipline, institutions, and the school-to-prison nexus. As a NFCDS fellow, Kenya aims to develop a workshop that encourages local high school students to think critically about data and how it shapes the world, through activities that focus on how students can start their own critical data analysis and visualization work. Her goal for the workshop series is for every participant to see themselves as a social scientist and critical consumer of data.
Jacob is a second-year graduate student in the Department of History. His research focuses on the entangled histories of people, animals, and commodities in the early modern Rio Grande Basin. Jacob also has broad interests in environmental history, the history of the North American West, and the digital humanities. During the 2021-2022 academic year, Jacob is excited about developing a workshop for humanities students who are interested in learning to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to conduct scholarly research and communicate with a variety of audiences.
Craig is a fifth-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He is currently working with William Schneider in the Chemical Engineering department, where they have been developing computational models to understand molecular structure and catalytic reactivity at the atomic level. His goal as a NFCDS fellow is to design and implement a workshop or workshop series that introduces students to the basics of LaTeX: How do you create a document? How can you change the document format? How do you compile (or export) your document? This workshop will provide introductory guidance that will help students create publications, resumes, and letters in LaTeX.
Wynona is a second-year graduate student in the Department of Physics, specializing in experimental particle physics. Her research work with professor Kevin Lannon and Randal Ruchti focuses on the CMS experiment at CERN and scintillating material studies for the hadron calorimeter. While academic life is not merely a unitary practice of course materials, Wan is also interested in enhancing her abilities as a speaker and instructor. The NFCDS fellowship provides a great opportunity to inspect, explore and learn. Through developing and delivering workshops, fellows are able to improve their instructing, lecturing, and communicating skills that are crucial to all career circumstances. Wan aims to design workshops that bring physics-related digital knowledge such as circuits, electromagnetic waves, optics, etc., to the Notre Dame non-physics community. It’s important to her that the subject she is passionate about can also bring excitement and change to her students’ view of the world.
[back to top]Email the 2022-2023 NFCDS Pedagogy Fellowship Team at nfcds-pedagogy-fellowship-list@nd.edu.
