Applications due Wednesday, April 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM

Are you looking for a fellowship that will challenge you to enhance your existing technical skills? Do you enjoy working collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team? Do you like working with students, faculty, and staff to help them learn new digital tools and methods? If learning new open-source technologies and helping others to integrate them thoughtfully and productively into their research sounds exciting to you, consider applying to become a GC Digital Fellow. 

Based in the GC Digital Scholarship Lab, the program operates as an in-house think-and-do tank, connecting fellows to digital initiatives throughout The Graduate Center. They utilize a team-based approach as they explore creative solutions for projects and implement them collaboratively, building out “The Digital GC” — a vision of the Graduate Center that incorporates technology into its core research and teaching missions. In the process, fellows contribute to and implement a strategic vision for public digital scholarship by leading week-long digital research institutes, teaching workshops on technical skills, creating resources for GC students and faculty, and building digital projects that make use of the affordances of emerging technology while considering the ethical, social, and political stakes. GC Digital Fellows foster community around digital projects and explore new ways for faculty, students, and staff to share their academic work through emergent digital tools during consultations, working group meetings, and events. In fact, the fellows have been recognized twice by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for their leadership in digital pedagogy. The group is particularly invested in the ways in which questions of race, gender, and social justice intersect with technology.

Graduate Center doctoral students within their first 7 years of GC funding are eligible to apply. 

To get a better sense of our work, you can read the GC Digital Fellows’ blog, Tagging the Tower, and our semesterly blog post “What is GCDI?” You might also read through the GCDI Annual Reports on our website.

Compensation

GC Digital Fellows work a total of 450 non-teaching hours during the academic year (two 15-week semesters). The initial DF appointment is for one year (exact dates vary and will be specified upon appointment). Determinations of re-appointments will be made on an annual basis up to three years, depending on individual eligibility and GC needs. Please note that students may not hold this Fellowship and a GTF concurrently. Compensation for the fellowship will be approximately $31,141 for the academic year. The fellowship is paid in two parts. Fellows will be appointed to the Graduate Center payroll as Graduate Assistant Bs (GAB) at their own current rate (the minimum GAB salary is currently $14,982) and also receive a Provost’s Award in the amount of $16,159 that will be paid through the Office of Fellowships and Financial Aid in two equal lumps sum payments. One payment will come towards the beginning of the Fall 2026 semester, and the second will come towards the beginning of the Spring 2027 semester. The GAB title provides eligibility to purchase the low-cost NYSHIP health insurance as well as in-state tuition remission for fellows who are within their first ten registered semesters of doctoral study. Fellows who are past their ten registered semesters of doctoral study will be eligible to receive in-state tuition remission at the Level III rate as per the 2017-2023 PSC-CUNY contract (this benefit provides for this tuition remission for a maximum of four semesters past the student’s 10th registered semester).

Application Instructions

To apply, please complete our online application form, which includes uploading a letter of interest (no more than 1-2 pages), a CV, a list of digital projects undertaken and/or completed, and the name and contact information for a faculty reference. (NOTE: Faculty reference letters are not requested at this point of the application process). 

Note on AI Use: We value the application and interview process as a means of getting to know each applicant. We request that you refrain from using AI generated text in your letter of interest or CV and only submit materials that reflect your original work. Use of AI for projects in your digital portfolio will be accepted, but it should be documented with process statements that clearly define what tools were used, what they were used for, and how AI helped achieve the project’s goals. For more information on developing AI process statements see https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/26548/34482. 

Applications must be received by April 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM to be considered.

Apply here: https://cuny.is/gcdf26cfp