Andrew W. Mellon Fellows at Price Lab for Digital Humanities

Javier R. Ardila

Ph.D. Student, History

Javier R. Ardila is a historian from the National University of Colombia. He is in the third year of his PhD in history at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a researcher for the...

Emily Brooks
Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities (Price Lab)

 

Emily F. Brooks is an Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities at the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. As her academic persona, the “makeademic,” she emphasizes...

Jim English

John Welsh Centennial Professor of English, Penn

Jim English is the founder of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities...

Arianna Fognani

Lecturer (Italian)

Arianna Fognani teaches Italian language and courses on translation and cinema in the Department of Francophone,...

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Emily Hammer

Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, Archeology and Anthropology of the Ancient World, Penn

Emily Hammer is an archaeologist and Assistant Professor in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department. She has worked in Turkey, Azerbaijan, the UAE, Afghanistan, and Iraq on both...

Matthew Hunter

Head of Digital Scholarship, Penn Libraries

As Head of Digital Scholarship, Matt supports scholars across the Penn community through collaboration, consultation, and program building for digital publication, digital humanities, public...

Will Kelly

Senior majoring in English

Will Kelly is a rising senior majoring in English with minors in Economics and Urban Real Estate and Development. As a Summer Fellow, he will be working with Dr. Jim English on the...

Marc Kohlbry

Independent writer, editor, and educator

Marc's research centers on the relationships between literature and media, histories of technology, and capitalism. His dissertation, "Noise Index: Cybernetic Poiesis in Postwar France," rethinks...

Mohamud Mohamed

PhD candidate, History

Mohamud Awil Mohamed is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Islamic thought and social memory in the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Indian...

Mélanie Péron

Senior Lecturer (French), Penn

Mélanie Péron is a Senior Lecturer in French. She teaches French History and Culture courses. In Fall 2016, she created the course "Paris during the German Occupation and its Places of [Non-]...

Rupa Pillai

Senior Lecturer, Asian American Studies (Penn)

Rupa Pillai is a senior lecturer in the Asian American Studies program at the University of Pennsylvania. A cultural anthropologist, she investigates the intersections of religion, race, and...

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J.D. Porter

Digital Humanities Specialist

J.D. Porter specializes in text mining, American literature, and the intersection of literature and philosophy. His digital work often involves natural language processing, network analysis, and...

Farrah Rahaman

Ph.D. Candidate, Annebnberg School for Communication

Farrah Rahaman is a cultural worker whose inquiry and meaning-making processes is activated through a scaffolding of scholarly research, cultural organizing, curation, and filmmaking. Farrah’s...

Liz Rose

Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature

Liz Rose studies mixed media approaches to theorizing racialized gender across the Americas, using translation, oral...

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Jordan Ross

Ph.D. student, Department of History & the Graduate School of Education

Jordan Ross is a joint Ph.D. student in the Department of History and the Graduate School of Education. His research centers on the history of African American education, texts, and archives...

Lia Schifitto
Manager of Research Initiatives, The Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites (CPCRS)
Weitzman School of Design

 

Lia supports digital humanities and multi-modal heritage preservation research at The Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites (CPCRS, Weitzman School of Design). Before arriving at Penn...

Lisa Servon

Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professor, Weitzman School of Design

Lisa Servon was previously Professor of Management and Urban Policy at The New School, where she also served as Dean at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy....

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Whitney Trettien

Assistant Professor, English, University of Pennsylvania

Whitney Trettien researches the history of the book and other text technologies from print to digital. Her work is invested in exploring the past to better understand our present media environment...

Eleanor Webb

PhD Candidate, History

Eleanor Webb is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History. She is currently...

Nadejda Webb

Assistant Director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for Digital Humanities, Johns Hopkins

Nadejda I. Webb (she/her/they) is the Assistant Director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the...