Digital Borderlands

View of the border between Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora along International Street.
Arizona, Southwestern, and Borderlands Photograph Collection
(Courtesy of University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections)
Digital Borderlands is a three-year grant project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Our goal is to produce and disseminate new, open-access humanities scholarship on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by integrating library services into a collaborative research process that emphasizes data-intensive, digital storytelling. For details about the project, review our initial proposal narrative.
The project has disbursed two rounds of funding to research teams at the University of Arizona through a competitive process. Funded projects employ a portfolio of University Libraries services and expertise encompassing scholarly communication, open access, data management and curation, data science, text and data mining, GIS, and distinctive archival collections on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Each team was funded up to $60,000 and has one year to complete their project.