Provost Digital Innovation Grants (PDIGS)
The Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants support digital projects designed, created, programmed, or administered by doctoral students at the CUNY Graduate Center. Since 2012, the grants have supported a range of inventive projects across the disciplines. Learn more about PDIG-funded projects below.
Every spring, applications are accepted from matriculated doctoral students in good academic standing at the CUNY Graduate Center. Grants are awarded to projects that contribute to the mission of the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as to the larger scholarly community and to the public. In addition to encouraging ambitious thinking in new areas, the program seeks to create connections between student scholars working in the digital realm. In order to forge these ties, grantees present publicly on their work in progress during the academic year, take part in collaborative discussions with current and past grantees, and, at the end of the grant period, report on their work through this website.
This page includes a list of the PDIG-funded student projects organized by funding year. The ‘Learn more’ associated with each project will take you to a post with a project summary and a final grant report.
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2017/2018 | 2016/2017 | 2015/2016 | 2014/2015 | 2013/2014 | 2012/2013
2017/2018
Visual Earth: Exploring the Content of Image Sharing Around the World
Grantee: Agustín Indaco
Discipline: Economics
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BlabRyte
Grantee: Anna Alexis Larsson
Discipline: English
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The Walden Soundscape
Grantee: Christina Katopodis
Discipline: English
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Holographic Reading
Grantee: Andrew Dunn
Discipline: English
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Dictionary of Shyness
Grantee: Sophia Natasha Sunseri
Discipline: English
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Guerrilla Gallery
Grantee: Javier Otero Peña
Discipline: Environmental Psychology
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“Quantifying Kissinger”: Interactive Narratives
Grantee: Micki Kaufman
Discipline: History
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Refer Me NYC
Grantee: Anthony Freeman
Discipline: Social Welfare
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Our Mobility
Grantee: Jessica Murray
Discipline: Human Development / Psychology
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The Military Toxics Transparency Project: Exposing the Military Origins of Environmental Injustice
Grantee: Drake Logan
Discipline: Political Science
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Abolition Science: A Podcast Series
Grantees: Atasi Das, LaToya Strong
Discipline: Urban Education
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2016/2017
SexGenLab Network
Grantee: Patrick Sweeney
Discipline: Critical Social Psychology
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Wallace: a platform for modeling species niches and distributions, built for community expansion
Grantee: Jamie Kass
Discipline: Biology
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Our Mobility, A Mixed Methods Research Protocol for Studying Daily Mobility
Grantee: Jessica Murray
Discipline: Psychology
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Polyhymnia: Geometry for the Many
Grantee: John Connor
Discipline: Computer Science
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Visualizing Conflict: Situating Narratives in Their Sociohistorical Context
Grantees: Karyna Pryiomka & James Christopher Head
Discipline: Critical Social/Personality Psychology
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Social Media Inequality
Grantee: Agustín Indaco
Discipline: Economics
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The Philip C. Van Buskirk Archive
Grantee: Matthew Knip
Discipline: English
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Digital interludes: Re-representing teacher carework
Grantee: Victoria Restler
Discipline: Urban Education
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Teaching Bilinguals (Even if You’re Not One): A Video Webseries for K-12 Educators
Grantee: Sara Vogel
Discipline: Urban Education
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The Walden Soundscape
Grantee: Christina Katopodis
Discipline: English
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Research Tool for Historians
Grantee: Tahir Butt
Discipline: Urban Education
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2015/2016
Charm School: Dating Experts, Abject Masculinity, and the Immaterial Labors of Seduction
Grantee: Anders Wallace
Discipline: Anthropology
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Good Food for Grads: Mobile Recipes and Tips for Eating ‘Well’ on a Grad School Budget
Grantee: Rachel R. Bogan
Discipline: Sociology
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Futures Past Archive
Grantees: Patrick Smyth and Hannah Aizenman
Disciplines: English and Computer Science
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Calculating the Politics of Aesthetics
Grantees: Henry Alexander Wermer-Colan
Discipline: English
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Digital Storytelling for Change: Toward Sustainable Youth-inclusive Communities in New York City
Grantees: Jennifer M. Pipitone and Svetlana Jović
Discipline: Psychology
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Visualizing Conflict: Situating Narratives in Their Sociohistorical Context
Grantees: Karyna Pryiomka and James Christopher Head
Discipline: Critical Social/Personality Psychology
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The Linguist’s Kitchen: A web-based app for learning linguistics
Grantee: Ian Phillips
Discipline: Linguistics
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The Spanish-English Bilingual Youth Texting Corpus and Part-of-Speech Tagger: Spanish/English BYT Corpus
Grantees: Joanna Birnbaum and Michelle Johnson McSweeney
Discipline: Linguistics
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Cappadocia on the Commons
Grantee: Alice Lynn McMichael
Discipline: Art History
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Spatializing / Sonifying Kissinger: New Perspectives in Space and Sound
Grantee: Micki Kaufman
Discipline: History
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Outcompeted: Mapping the Savings and Loan Crisis
Grantees: Erin Cully
Disciplines: History
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CUNY Syllabus Project
Grantees: Laura W. Kane, Andrew G. McKinney
Disciplines: Philosophy and Sociology
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Torreon, Mexican boomtown: A historical geography of Porfirian Mexico
Grantee: Hector Agredano
Discipline: Earth and Environmental Science
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2014/2015
The Linguist’s Kitchen
Grantee: Ian Phillips
Discipline: Linguistics
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Six Degrees of Occupation
Grantee: Eric A. Knudsen
Discipline: Psychology
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Narratives of Displacement: A Digital Storytelling Project
Grantee: Manissa Maharawal
Discipline: Anthropology
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The Writing Studies Tree
Grantee: Benjamin Miller and Amanda Licastro
Discipline: English
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Mapping Global Trafficking
Grantee: Daria Vaisman
Discipline: Criminal Justice
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Genoa: A Telling of Wonders, Annotated Edition
Grantee: Tayt Harlin
Discipline: English
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Clinical Research Tools for Rapid Assessment of Cochlear Health
Grantee: Joshua J. Hajicek
Discipline: Hearing Science
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Calculating the Politics of Aesthetics
Grantee: Alex Wermer-Colan
Discipline: English
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Networking Modern Prints in New York and Paris, 1880-1950
Grantee: Britany Salsbury and Christina Weyl
Discipline: Art History
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“Everything On Paper Will Be Used Against Me” – Quantifying Kissinger
Grantee: Micki Kaufman
Discipline: History
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Lazuri Talking Child Stories
Grantee: Peri Ozlem Yuksel-Sokmen
Discipline: Psychology, Training Area Human Development
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2013/2014
“Everything On Paper Will Be Used Against Me”: A Computational Analysis of Henry A. Kissinger’s Vietnam-Era Correspondence
Grantee: Micki Kaufman
Discipline: History
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The Writing Studies Tree: An Academic Genealogy
Grantee: Benjamin Miller and Amanda Licastro
Discipline: English
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Mapping Mythology: A Digital Archive of Classical Mythology in Post-Antique Art (Manhattan Architectural Sculpture and Relief Field Survey)
Grantee: Jared Simard
Discipline: Classics
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The Walking with Whitman Mobile Walking Tour
Grantee: Jesse Merandy
Discipline: English
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Site for Collaborative Forecasting of Secure Housing Needs
Grantee: Evan Misshula and Ligon M. Liu
Discipline: Criminal Justice and Computer Science
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Educational Policies and New York City Latinos in the Current Racial Political Economy
Grantee: Edwin Mayorga
Discipline: Urban Education
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Community IT Centers and Organizing Women Workers in Gujarat, India
Grantee: Natascia Boeri
Discipline: Sociology
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2012/2013
The Black Sea Fish and Mollusca Project
Grantee: Antonia Santangelo
Discipline: Anthropology
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Researching Contemporary Religion in the Age of Big Data: Mapping the Church-Planting Movement
Grantee: John Boy
Discipline: Sociology
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Street Medicine Apps
Grantee: Suzanne Tamang
Discipline: Computer Science
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Debunking the “Dropout” Stereotype
Grantee: Rondi Silva
Discipline: Urban Education
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eTLP: Digitizing Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Grantee: Kyle Ferguson
Discipline: Philosophy
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The Writing Studies Tree
Grantee: Ben Miller, Amanda Licastro, and Jill Belli
Discipline: English
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Urban Sociology Digital Mapping and Presentation Tool
Grantee: Jacob Lederman
Discipline: Sociology
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“Data Mining Diplomacy”: A Computational Analysis of the State Department’s Foreign Policy Files
Grantee: Micki Kaufman
Discipline: U.S. History
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Building a Virtual Museum: Creating an Online Database of 3D Primate Postcranial Models
Grantee: Justin Gladman
Discipline: Anthropology
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The Open Music History Project
Grantee: Naomi Barrettara
Discipline: Musicology
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