Digital Creators Awards

Project & Applicant Eligibility
Current BU undergraduates in any major are eligible to submit digital projects with strong humanistic content in the following four categories:

1. Web design
2. Audio
3. Visual
4. Game/App design

Applicants are limited to two submissions. Please complete a separate application form for each submission. If you are unsure as to which category best describes your project, please email the Center at buch@bu.edu.

All submissions should be submitted via link and hosted on an independent platform (i.e., Youtube, website, online portfolio). Please select a 15-minute highlight if your project runs longer than 15 minutes.

While the applicant(s) does not need to be majoring in a humanities discipline, funding will only be awarded to projects with demonstrably strong humanistic content. Humanistic content will be evaluated according to the following definition of humanities research:

Research that seeks to understand human society, culture, history, and values using philosophical inquiry and/or historical investigation and/or interpretation or analysis of cultural production (i.e. literature, visual art, music, material culture etc.)

The following departments are in the CAS Humanities Division: Classical Studies, English, History of Art & Architecture, Linguistics, Philosophy, Romance Studies, World Languages & Literatures

If you have questions about whether your project is sufficiently humanistic, please contact the BUCH staff at buch@bu.edu before applying.

Please click here to access the application form.

All submissions should be submitted via link and hosted on an independent platform.

Congratulations to the AY 23-24 Digital Creators Awards recipients, whose diverse projects creatively bridge the humanities and emerging digital technologies.

Audio Category
Nicole Ratmiroff, CAS ’27
Nicole’s podcast, The Idealist, addresses mental health and wellness through media trends. 

App Category
Cheryl Lai, COM/CAS ’26, Public Relations, Religion
Cheryl’s app, “Grow Your Spirit,” gamifies the process of building consistent rituals in users’ lives by tying their action logs to growing virtual plants. 

Visual Category
Iris Ren, CAS ’27, Computer Science
Iris’s comic draws connections between Kehinde Wiley’s painting, John, 1st Baron Byron, and literature that Iris studied through the Core Curriculum. 

Web Category
Ki Hang Cheung, COM ’24, Advertising, Japanese Language & Literature Minor
Ki Hang’s website explores the enduring literary legacy of Japan’s Asakusa Rokku theatre district as depicted in Japanese literature.

Congratulations to the AY 24-25 Digital Creators Awards recipients, whose diverse projects creatively bridge the humanities and emerging digital technologies.

Audio Category
Emily Bone, CAS ’25 & Cheryl Lai, CAS/COM ’26
Emily and Cheryl’s podcast, Mommy’s Issues, was created for a WR class themed around fairy tales. The two discuss two Maiden in the Tower tales, “Rapunzel” by the Brothers Grimm and “Petrosinella” by Giambattista Basile, and two versions of Snow White,  “The Young Slave” by Giambattista Basile and “Snow White” by the Brothers Grimm.

App Category
Theodore Sepulveda, ENG ’28
Theodore’s app, “Mind Over Batter,” is a short visual storytelling game where the player attempts to bake a cake while troubled by their past.

Visual Category
Gerry Hyunsun Hwang, CAS/COM ’25
Gerry’s short film, “The Lonely Jazz Singer”, follows a jazz singer through a city landscape while reflecting the practices and the genre conventions of  1940s film noir classics.

Remi Hayashi, CAS ‘265
Remi’s video essay on The Impact of Technology on Our Attention Span aims to capture the audience’s attention while discussing the very problem of shortened attention spans using Confucius’s wisdom.

Web Category
Sutton Faye, COM ’25
Sutton’s website explores how the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles became a hub for youth activism, music, and social change in the 1960s.