Emerging priorities and strategies for digital humanities funding

Slides used for presentation at the Virtual Symposium on Information and Technology in the Arts and Humanities, held April 22 and 23, 2015. The Symposium was co-sponsored by the ASIS&T (Association for Information Science and Technology) Special Interest Group for Arts and Humanities (SIG AH) and the Special Interest Group for Visualization, Images, and Sound (SIG VIS).

Perry Collins is a Senior Program Officer in the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities. At the NEH, Perry is responsible for managing and developing grant programs, administrating the application review process, and providing guidance to NEH awardees throughout the course of their projects. In this position, she has overseen major awards to initiatives such as the Digital Public Library of America. Perry also manages NEH’s fledgling digital repository, a new effort to preserve materials that document the history of the Endowment. She holds a M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a M.A. in American Studies from the University of Kansas.