About

The Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities (Summer DH) supports a small interdisciplinary cohort of Cornell Ph.D. students who together investigate approaches to digital scholarship through collaborative workshops, readings, discussion, and co-work on independent projects. The fellowship is a project of the Digital CoLab, sponsored by Cornell University Library and the Society for Humanities. To read more, see the Summer DH webpage.

People

  • Eliza Bettinger (she/her) leads Olin Library’s research and teaching services for digital scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences. Throughout the year, she collaborates with scholars and students on projects in mapping, visualization, text analysis, and digital exhibits and publishing. She also teaches students and consults with researchers across the university about issues related to digital privacy and surveillance and is a member of the Library Freedom Project. Uniting all her work is a concern for helping people make meaning from, and exercise control over, data, information, and narratives.

  • Iliana Burgos (she/her) is the emerging data practices librarian at Olin Library. She first explored digital scholarship in graduate school, studying social inequality in U.S. cities through digital map-making and researching the community engagement practices of open data government and nonprofit programs in North Carolina. These days, she’s focused on supporting researchers in building skills with text data mining and computational text analysis methods. She is passionate about promoting critical approaches to digital scholarship and data management. A Ronald E. McNair Scholar and American Library Association Spectrum Scholar, Iliana previously supported community engagement work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Wilmington Institute Free Library of Delaware.

  • Kiran Mohammadi-Williams (she/her) is the collections as data librarian at Olin Library. Her first digital humanities project was during her undergraduate studies at Oberlin College, studying urban spaces, art production, and enslavement at Pompeii and Constantinople through public-facing scholarship. At the CoLab, Kiran focuses on teaching and supporting researchers in developing skills and projects using public-facing methods, like web-building, developing digital collections and exhibits, and data viz. She believes in the power of accessible and comprehensive documentation for software, and the importance of using digital methods for decolonial means.

  • Matt Connolly (he/him) is an application developer in the Library’s IT department and has been at the LIbrary for 17 years. He works on the library catalog, websites, and long-term digital repository. He is interested in user privacy, creating good user interfaces, and innovative search systems. He has also created experimental offline collections of digital resources for the Cornell Prison Education Program.

Additional instructors and guests

  • María Paula Corredor Acosta is a PhD student in the Department of History. Since the spring of 2023, she has been engaged in a digital humanities project with the support of her advisor Ernesto Bassi, the Barnard College through the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective (CDSC) and the Digital Humanities CoLab at Cornell. This project involves the development of a digital archive centered on the Caribbean Sea, named the “Atlantic Seascapes Project.”

  • Ambre Dromgoole is an assistant professor of Africana religions and music in the Africana Studies & Research Center. Her work centers the composition, perception, and projections of Black sacred soundings across different social contexts, the ways that gender is (re)constituted in these spaces, and the artistic innovation that occurs outside the purview of traditionally recognized social, educational, and ecclesial institutions. Among her projects, she developed the digital exhibition project “Live Right, Die Right: The Life and Times of Gospel Songwriter, Roxie Ann Moore,” made possible in part by the Crossroads Project at Princeton University.

  • Lencia McKee is a Research Data Librarian in Cornell University Library’s Research Data and Open Scholarship department (based in Mann Library). Lencia and RDOS support researchers throughout all stages of the data lifecycle, including data curation and publishing.

  • Lindsay Thomas is an associate professor in the Department of Literatures in English. Her research and teaching focus on the contemporary US literature, cultural studies, and the digital humanities. She was co-director of WhatEvery1Says, a multi-institutional public humanities project funded by the Mellon Foundation that used computational text analysis to examine public discourse on the value of the humanities on a large scale. Among other projects, she is currently leading the CIVIC Task Force on Digital Humanities, which is investigating pathways for building institutional infrastructure for digital humanities, broadly defined, at Cornell.

  • Matt Thomas is a Statistical Consultant at the Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit. Matt’s enthusiasm for statistics springs from the diversity of methods he has applied to his own research, including item response theory and psychometric methods for evaluating student performance in calculus, qualitative and mixed methods approaches to understanding how mathematicians and learners use algorithmic thinking, and using machine learning techniques to make predictions about the composition date of American folk dances. Matt is interested in issues of measurement and causal inference and appreciates the nuance and challenges of data manipulation and management. Matt has an M.S. and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Arizona, where he focused on quantitative mathematics education, and held faculty positions at the University of Central Arkansas and Ithaca College.

  • Matt Wilkens is an associate professor of information science. He uses quantitative and computational methods to study large-scale developments in literary and cultural history. His work has focused in particular on literary text mining, geolocation extraction, genre detection, and the cross-pollination of critical and social-scientific methods. He is a co-director of the AI for Humanists project, the director of the Textual Geographies project, a co-investigator of the Text Mining the Novel project, a founding editorial board member of the Journal of Cultural Analytics, and the author of Revolution: The Event in Postwar Fiction.