The highly competitive National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship supports exceptional research in the humanities and vital work that conveys the lessons of history. NEH Fellows pursue advanced humanities research that becomes award-winning books, digital materials, and other scholarly resources.
Department of Art
Professor of Art Marc Böhlen, MFA, aka RealTechSupport, is an artist-engineer who uses technology as his medium of artistic exploration. Böhlen, who has advanced degrees in computer science, robotics and art history, designs and builds information processing systems that critically reflect on information as a cultural values. Böhlen is the recipient of the 2004 Artificial Life/VIDA award and the 2014 Vilcek Digital Art Prize. His works have been exhibited in Germany, Switzerland, France, Austria, Spain, Croatia, Canada, the US, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Norway, and the UK. Böhlen has authored over 50 peer reviewed publications and was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities-Mellon Fellowship in 2023 in support of the project, “On the Logics of Artificial Intelligence and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analysis of Land Use.”
Department of Lingusitics
Associate professor of linguistics, Dr. Christian DiCanio, examines the tonal and accentual properties of words in a variety of languages, including many endangered languages of Mexico. Since 2004, DiCanio has been documenting three previously undescribed indigenous language communities in Southern Mexico. He conducts his research through extensive fieldwork, experimental phonetics, and state-of-the-art computational tools and statistical methods. A prolific scholar whose research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, DiCanio has delivered numerous keynote lectures and invited presentations at conferences and institutions around the world. In 2023, DiCanio received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to research and write a comprehensive reference grammar of Itunyoso Triqui, an endangered Native American language in Southern Mexico.
