Matthew Thomas Miller Matthew Thomas Miller | Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Digital Humanities at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland; Director, Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities (PersDig@UMD); and affiliate faculty of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) & the Religious Studies and Comparative Literature Programs

Matthew Thomas Miller

Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Digital Humanities at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland; Director, Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities (PersDig@UMD); and affiliate faculty of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) & the Religious Studies and Comparative Literature Programs

Matthew Thomas Miller Matthew Thomas Miller | Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Digital Humanities at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland; Director, Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities (PersDig@UMD); and affiliate faculty of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) & the Religious Studies and Comparative Literature Programs

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The Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities (PersDig@UMD) is proud to announce that we have received a Level III Digital Humanities Advancement Grant in the amount of $324,571 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for our project entitled, “Automatic Collation for Diversifying Corpora: Improving Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Arabic-script Manuscripts.” Matthew Thomas Miller will serve as the Principal Investigator of this project, with David Smith serving as the co-Principal Investigator.

For more information on the ACDC project and how it fits in with PersDig@UMD and the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative’s other projects, please see PI Miller’s Twitter thread here.

Also, please see the official NEH announcement.