U.S. History and Digital Historian, Vilja Hulden has been awarded an NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication.
Project Title: "A Computational Analysis of Group Representation at U.S. Congressional Hearings since 1877.”
Project Description: Research and preparation of a digital publication based on the computational analysis of congressional-hearing records to explore the history of group representation and lobbying between the mid-nineteenth and later twentieth centuries.
Like the regular NEH Fellowships, this is a $60,000 award, and Vilja is the only winner of any sort of NEH Fellowship in the state of Colorado this year.
Professor Vilja Hulden focuses on U.S. labor and social history, using traditional archival research as well as digital humanities approaches like text mining, machine learning, and social network analysis.