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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