Price Mellon Research Fellow
2023
2024

Jessica Mack

Assistant Professor of Digital History, Rowan University

Jessica Mack is a historian and assistant professor of digital history at Rowan University. She specializes in digital public history, Latin American history, and the history of higher education. Her current book project, ​Building University City: Knowledge, Power, and Publics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, examines the campus construction for Mexico's national university (UNAM) in mid-twentieth-century Mexico City. She uses archival aerial imagery and digital methods to spatially analyze this campus building project and the politics of land surrounding it. Her digital scholarship focuses on uses of digital technology in the historical research process and multilingual digital humanities. At Rowan, she is a founding co-director of the new Center for Digital Humanities Research and organizer of the annual Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, she was a co-Principal Investigator on grant-funded digital history projects such as Mapping the Un​iversity and education lead on bilingual training content for the archival research management software Tropy. Mack is the creator of In​to the Archive, an open-access asynchronous online course on historical research methods. She holds a PhD in History from Princeton University and a BA in History from Wesleyan University.