Matthew K. Gold is assistant professor of English at New York City College of Technology. He is a faculty member in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Doctoral Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he also serves as Advisor to the Provost for Masterrsquo;s Programs and Digital Initiatives.

Matthew K. Gold is assistant professor of English at New York City College of Technology. He is a faculty member in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Doctoral Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he also serves as Advisor to the Provost for Masterrsquo;s Programs and Digital Initiatives.

The Graduate Center at CUNY, Emory University

Matthew K. Gold is assistant professor of English at New York City College of Technology. He is a faculty member in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Doctoral Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he also serves as Advisor to the Provost for Masterrsquo;s Programs and Digital Initiatives.

The Graduate Center at CUNY, Emory University

Kelly Baker Josephs specializes in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Digital Humanities. Josephs was the 2016-17 Sterling Brown Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College and a Spring 2019 Scholar-in-Residence at the NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Lisa Spiro serves as the Executive Director of Digital Scholarship Services at Rice University's Fondren Library, where she oversees the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive, the Digital Media Commons, and the Kelley Center for Government Information, Data and Geospatial Services.

Stephen Ramsay is Susan J. Rosowski Associate University Professor of English and a Fellow at the Center. He specializes in philosophical issues related to the use of technology in digital humanities, and teaches courses in programming and software engineering to humanities students in both the Department of English and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Dr. Kim Gallon joins Purdue University as an assistant professor of history from Muhlenberg College. She is also the founder and director of the Black Press Research Collective (http://blackpressresearchcollective.org) and an ongoing visiting scholar at the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on discourses and representations of gender and sexuality in the early twentieth century Black Press. She is completing a manuscript titled, “We Are Becoming a Tabloid Race: The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in the Black Press, 1925-1945.” Her future research focuses on cultural Pan-Africanism in African American and Ghanaian newspapers in the twentieth century. She is also a Digital Humanist and was recently awarded a NEH Digital Humanities Level 1 Start-Up grant for her work on digitizing scholarship on the Black Press. Her work has been published in History Compass, Journalism History, Transformations, Pennsylvania History and Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Her writing on Black popular culture and romance is featured on the “Popular Romance Project” web site (http://popularromanceproject.org).

Kelly Baker Josephs specializes in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Digital Humanities. Josephs was the 2016-17 Sterling Brown Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College and a Spring 2019 Scholar-in-Residence at the NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Catherine D'Ignazio is an American professor, artist and software developer who focuses on feminism and data literacy. She is the director of the Data + Feminism lab at MIT. D'Ignazio is best known for her hackathons, such as "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck" and her book, Data Feminism.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emory University

Todd Presner is Chair of UCLA’s Digital Humanities Program and Ross Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature. Since 2018, he is Associate Dean of Digital Innovation in the Division of Humanities and Adviser to the Vice Chancellor of Research for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences research. From 2011-2018, he was the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. He serves as faculty co-PI on the “Urban Humanities” initiative at UCLA. His research focuses on European intellectual history, the history of media, visual culture, digital humanities, and cultural geography. He is the author or co-author of five books: The first, Mobile Modernity: Germans, Jews, Trains (Columbia University Press, 2007), maps German-Jewish intellectual history onto the development of the railway system; the second, Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration (Routledge, 2007), analyzes the aesthetic dimensions of the strong Jewish body; the third, Digital_Humanities (MIT Press, 2012), co-authored with Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, and Jeffrey Schnapp, is a critical-theoretical exploration of this emerging field; the fourth, HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities (Harvard University Press, 2014), with David Shepard and Yoh Kawano, explores digital cultural mapping using the HyperCities project as a starting point — click here for the downloadable version of the HyperCities book in e-scholarship; the fifth, Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture, co-edited with Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner (Harvard University Press, 2016), explores the history of representations of the Holocaust and contemporary debates in the field.

Mark Stephen Monmonier is a Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He specializes in toponymy, geography, and geographic information systems. His popular written works show a combination of serious study and a sense of humor.

Specialization: Geography
Research Interests: Critical geographies of education, racial capitalism, production of scale, social reproduction.
Dissertation Topic: My research broadly explores the history of local control over k-12 public education in the United States. In particular, my dissertation focuses on the current "opt out" movement against state-mandated standardized testing.
Advisor: Dr. Marianna Pavlovskaya

Olivia is an anti-racist activist whose research and activism focuses on addressing school segregation in New York. Between 2010 and 2013, Olivia worked for ERASE Racism, a racial justice nonprofit based on Long Island, as the organization's Inclusive Housing Coordinator and Communications Coordinator. Since beginning her Ph.D. at the Graduate Center in 2013, she has worked for ERASE Racism as a part-time consultant. Since 2013, Olivia has served on the Board of Directors for S.T.R.O.N.G Youth, a gang prevention and community development organization on Long Island.

Yarimar Bonilla is a Puerto Rican political anthropologist, author, columnist, and professor of anthropology and Puerto Rican studies at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Mayukh Sen is a New York-based writer who covers food and film. His writing on food has appeared in The New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and elsewhere, while he has written about film for The Atlantic, Film Comment, the Criterion Collection, and a number of other publications.

Dr. Guiliano has served as a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant and Program Manager at the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (2008-2010) and as Associate Director of the Center for Digital Humanities (2010-2011) and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of South Carolina. She most recently held a position as Assistant Director at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland where she also served as an adjunct instructor in the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Digital Cultures program in the Honor’s College. Dr. Guiliano currently serves as President of the Association for Computing in the Humanities (ACH) Executive Council (2016-2018), as co-director with Trevor Muñoz of the Humanities Intensive Teaching + Learning Initiative (HILT: www.dhtraining.org/hilt), and as co-author with Simon Appleford of DevDH.org, a resource for digital humanities project development. Dr. Guiliano completed her 2015 monograph Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America, which traces the appropriation, production, dissemination, and legalization of Native American images as sports mascots in the late 19th and 20th centuries. She is also completing her co-authored work Getting Started in the Digital Humanities with Dr. Appleford.

Lev Manovich is an author of books on new media theory, professor of Computer Science at the City University of New York, Graduate Center, U.S. and visiting professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

Tressie McMillan Cottom is an American writer, sociologist, and professor. She is currently an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, and is also an affiliate of the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Jessica Marie Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University. An historian of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic African diaspora, she is the author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2020).

Johanna Drucker is an American author, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic. Her scholarly writing documents and critiques visual language: letterforms, typography, visual poetry, art, and lately, digital art aesthetics.

Jessica Marie Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University. An historian of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic African diaspora, she is the author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2020).

Cameron Blevins is an assistant professor of history at CU Denver where he studies digital humanities, spatial history, and the nineteenth-century United States and is a former Assistant Professor of history at Northeastern University and NU Labs. Cameron’s work has appeared in the Journal of American History, Modern American History, and Digital Humanities Quarterly. His current project, Gossamer Network, is under contract with Oxford University Press and uses spatial analysis to reinterpret the nineteenth-century American state. Some of his broader interests include geography, gender history, and information visualization.

Marlene L. Daut has a B.A. in English and French from Loyola Marymount University, and she earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame in 2009. She is currently Professor of African Diaspora Studies in the Carter G. Woodson Institute and the Program in American Studies at the University of Virginia. Before joining the faculty of UVA, Daut was Associate professor of English and Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University. She has also been the recipient of fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). She is the author of two books: Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave, 2017) and Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (Liverpool, 2015); and the forthcoming edited collection, An Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions. Her articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals such as, Studies in Romanticism, L'esprit createur, Small Axe, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Comparative Literature, South Atlantic Review, Research in African Literatures, and J19. She is also co-editor and co-creator of H-Net's scholarly network, H-Haiti and curates the websites, http://haitianrevolutionaryfictions.com and http://lagazetteroyale.com.

Deen Freelon is an associate professor in the School of Media and Journalism. His research covers two major areas of scholarship: 1) political expression through digital media and 2) data science and computational methods for analyzing large digital datasets. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 journal articles, book chapters and public reports, in addition to co-editing one scholarly book. He has served as principal investigator on grants from the Knight Foundation, the Spencer Foundation and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has written research-grade software to calculate intercoder reliability for content analysis (ReCal), analyze large-scale network data from social media (TSM), and collect data from Facebook (fb_scrape_public). He formerly taught at American University in Washington, D.C.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, New York University, University of Virginia

Stephen Brier is Professor in the Urban Education PhD program and founder and coordinator (2002-17) of the Graduate Center’s Interactive Technology & Pedagogy certificate program. He teaches courses in the history of public education and his research interests include race, class, and ethnicity in U.S. labor and public education history (including the history of CUNY), the Digital Humanities, and the impact of digital technology on teaching and learning. Brier was the founding director of CUNY’s American Social History Project and co-wrote and co-produced its award-winning multimedia U.S. history curriculum, Who Built America? He is co-author (with Michael Fabricant) of Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education (John Hopkins Univ. Press, 2016), which explores the negative impact of neoliberal policies on public higher education systems since the 1980s. Brier is currently working on a major study of the fight for community control over New York City’s K-16 public education system in the 1960s.

Bethany Nowviskie is Dean of Libraries and Professor of English at James Madison University. From 2015-2019, she directed the Digital Library Federation at CLIR (where she has also been a Distinguished Presidential Fellow) and served as a Research Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Virginia.

Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010) was an American sociologist. She specialized in the study of information in modern society; information worlds; information infrastructure; classification and standardization; sociology of science; sociology of work and the history of science, medicine, technology, and communication/information systems. She commonly used the qualitative methods methodology and feminist theory approach. She was also known for developing the concept of boundary objects and for contributions to computer-supported cooperative work.

I'm an assistant professor in the Information Studies department at UCLA. As a digital humanist, I consider myself a generalist, and my interests range widely, from mapping to network analysis. But I have a particular interest in thinking about and working with data from cultural institutions. A media scholar who's interested in science and technology, I'm working on a project related to data and supply-chain capitalism.

In my spare (?) time, I love sewing, spending time with my family, eating the foods of every nation, and exploring my beloved L.A. You can reach me at miriam.posner@gmail.com.

"Rethinking Repair", Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, edited by Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski, and Kirsten A. Foot, 2014

I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science and Department of Science and Technology Studies, with additional graduate field appointments in Communication and Public Affairs. I also serve as Chair of Information Science, and Dean of William Keeton House, a vibrant living-learning community that's part of Cornell’s West Campus housing system.

I teach and conduct research in the areas of scientific collaboration, technology policy, democratic governance, and global development. More specifically, I study how people organize, fight, and work together around collective projects of all sorts in which technology plays a central role. I also study how infrastructure – social and material forms foundational to other kinds of human action – gets built, stabilized, and sometimes undone. This brings me regularly into worlds of policy (especially technology, research, and development policy), organizational or institutional analysis, and occasionally into design. I spend much of my time doing ethnographic and sometimes historiographic research, where I study how shifting policies, emerging technologies, and cultural innovation meet complex and historically-layered fields of practice. I think a lot about governance – how order is produced and maintained in complex sociotechnical systems; time – how we experience, organize, design, and work around the temporal flows and patterns that shape and define individual and collective activity in the world; and breakdown, maintenance and repair – as sites of innovation, power, and ethics in complex sociotechnical systems. At the broadest level, I study how things change and how they stay the same, in a world that is furiously doing both (piece of cake, right?).

Alex Gil is a scholar of digital humanities and Caribbean studies and Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University. His research focuses on Aimé Césaire, global digital humanities, and experimental humanities.

My research traces the intersections of print narrative and new storytelling media. I’m particularly interested in how utopian and dystopian narratives from any given era represent and respond to narrative technologies, and in how the lessons of Utopian Studies might inform the new affordances offered by hypertext, video games and social media.

With colleagues at Carleton’s Hyperlab and elsewhere, I’m developing innovative locative media authorware for spatial storytelling. Our StoryTrek system makes it easy to create complex, “augmented reality” multimedia narratives that twist and turn depending on the reader’s geospatial position and style of navigation through real space. We’ve used the system for mobile stories and games, heritage conservation projects, and the critical study of social and literary spaces.

Currently, I’m using our software to layer city maps over fictional city narratives (in the form of novels, serialized stories and unpublished manuscripts), historical street maps, photographs, blueprints of landmark buildings (both extant and demolished), and visionary drawings of urban spaces. By using the city streets themselves as an interactive interface to historical representations of urban decline, destruction and renewal, I aim to create a speculative archive of the cities that were, and those that might have been.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick is an American scholar of digital humanities and media studies. She is currently the Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University and has previously served as an Associate Executive Director and Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association, Visiting Research Professor of English at New York University, co-editor of MediaCommons, and managing editor of PMLA.[1][2] She was Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College from 1998 to 2013.

Johanna Drucker is an American author, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic. Her scholarly writing documents and critiques visual language: letterforms, typography, visual poetry, art, and lately, digital art aesthetics.

Alex Gil is a scholar of digital humanities and Caribbean studies and Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University. His research focuses on Aimé Césaire, global digital humanities, and experimental humanities.

Ted Underwood is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Work of the Sun: Literature, Science, and Political Economy, 1760-1860 and blogs about digital approaches to literary history at The Stone and the Shell.

Lauren F. Klein is associate professor in the departments of English and Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University. She is coeditor of the Debates in Digital Humanities series at Minnesota.

“The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What You Do with a Million Books”, Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology edited by Kevin Kee, University of Michigan Press, 2014, pp. 111–20.

Stephen Ramsay is Susan J. Rosowski Associate University Professor of English and a Fellow at the Center. He specializes in philosophical issues related to the use of technology in digital humanities, and teaches courses in programming and software engineering to humanities students in both the Department of English and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Michael Witmore is a Shakespearean, scholar of rhetoric, digital humanist, and director of a library and cultural institution. In 2011, he was appointed the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, where he continues to serve.

Richard Jean So is assistant professor of English and cultural analytics at McGill University. He is the author of Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network (Columbia, 2016).

Ryan Cordell is associate professor of English at Northeastern University and a core founding faculty member in the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. His scholarship seeks to illuminate how technologies of production, reception, and remediation shape the meanings of texts within communities. Cordell primarily studies circulation and reprinting in nineteenth-century American newspapers, but his interests extend to the influence of computation and digitization on contemporary reading, writing, and research. Cordell collaborates with colleagues in English, history, and computer science on the NEH- and ACLS-funded Viral Texts project, which is using robust data mining tools to discover borrowed texts across large-scale archives of nineteenth-century periodicals. Cordell is also a primary investigator in the Digging Into Data project Oceanic Exchanges, a six-nation effort examining patterns of information flow across national and linguistic boundaries in nineteenth century newspapers. Cordell is also a senior fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School and serves on the executive committee of the MLA’s Forum on Bibliography and Scholarly Editing.

"Review of Puerto Rico Syllabus: Essential Tools for Critical Thinking about the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis", sx archipelagos, International Small Axe Project, 2019

Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert is a Puerto Rican academic who specializes in research of the Caribbean. She holds the Sarah Tod Fitz Randolph Distinguished Professor Chair at Vassar College.

Roopika Risam is an associate professor of Secondary and Higher Education and English and the Faculty Fellow of Digital Library Initiatives at Salem State University. She is a scholar of digital and postcolonial humanities.

Marta Effinger-Crichlow is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects in the mediums of film, theater, and literature highlight her mission to fuse social issues, culture, and history. She also brings her extensive experience as a researcher to all three mediums. Marta is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. She also received a Pittsburgh Multicultural Arts Initiative grant for her multi-media collage The Kitchen is Closed Startin' Sunday. For her produced work, Marta has collaborated with jazz saxophonist Billy Harper. She has served as a freelance dramaturg for theater productions in New York City, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Memphis, and Louisville. She is the author of Staging Migrations toward an American West: From Ida B. Wells