Announcing 2026-2027 Scholars’ Lab Fellows

We are thrilled to announce the 2026-2027 Scholar’s Lab fellows for the Praxis Program and the Graduate Fellowship in the Digital Humanities. We are welcoming 7 fellows from 4 disciplines from the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Our graduate fellows are joining a robust and vibrant community of past students!

Praxis Program

We are delighted to welcome 5 team members to the 16th (!) year of the Praxis Program, our flagship introduction to digital humanities by way of collaborative, project-based pedagogy:

• Slenka Botello (Art and Architectural History)
• Catherine Fan (Art and Architectural History)
• Sena Kaplan (Sociology)
• Ruth Kramer (History)
• Kaarin Percy (Art and Architectural History)

Look forward to more details about the Praxis Program’s work in the fall!

Critical Making Fellow

The Scholars’ Lab Makerspace Critical Making Fellow is a year-long, paid graduate fellowship that supports a student in creating a physically grounded scholarly project connected to their academic research using Makerspace and UVA fabrication resources. We are excited to welcome Jessica Gómez (English) as our 2026-2027 Critical Making Fellow. The Fellow works about 10 hours per week, collaborates with the Makerspace community, documents their process, teaches two workshops, and presents the completed project publicly at the end of the spring semester.

Graduate Fellows in the Digital Humanities

Finally, we are looking forward to working with Ganiyu Jimoh (Jimga), our 2026-2027 Graduate Fellow in the Digital Humanities. Jimga’s (Art and Architectural History) dissertation is titled “Digital Art in Nigeria 1990 – 1999.”

Jimga will work with our team throughout the year and over the summer on substantial research projects related to his dissertation. He joins a vibrant community of students working in the lab in the coming year.

Special thanks to everyone who served on the application committees that selected these fantastic students. We are looking forward to working with all of them in the coming year!