June 25, 2025
DH Practitioners Panel
Panelists
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.
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.”
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 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.