Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) is an association for cross-border collaboration on digital scholarship within academia and cultural heritage institutions across the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. We bring together a wide range of approaches — from interpretive and theoretical work to computational analysis and cultural analytics — within a shared regional community.
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, DHNB is introducing an annual best doctoral dissertation award. We invite our colleagues to nominate outstanding doctoral dissertations that reflect the organisation’s thematic and geographical scope. In addition to the main award, up to three honorary mentions will be granted.
The award committee, appointed by the DHNB Board, will consider all nominated dissertations. Selection will be based on the overall scientific quality of the dissertation and its innovativeness in combining humanities scholarship with digital methods, data, or research topics.
Eligible dissertations are those written in any Nordic or Baltic language, or in English, and defended in the given year. Nominations must be submitted to the DHNB Board no later than 15 December. At the time of nomination, the defence need not yet have taken place, but it must be completed by the end of the year.
The award committee will convene in early January and announce its decision by 15 January. The winning dissertation and any honorary mentions will be recognised at the subsequent DHNB conference in the spring. The recipient of the main award will receive a bursary to attend the conference and will be invited to present their work as an invited speaker in the doctoral consortium there.
We ask the proposals for the award to be submitted via the link below: