Xiao Li

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Dr. Xiao Li is a digital humanist and historian whose work bridges technology and the humanities. She teaches digital humanities courses on archival design, visual analysis, and public humanities, drawing on extensive experience in research, teaching, and digital project development. Dr. Li is a Digital Humanist at UC Santa Cruz and has led major digital humanities initiatives at institutions including Phillips Academy Andover—where she created the Chinese Students at Andover digital archive—and the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative, where she worked on cultural heritage preservation with digital means. As an editor of H-Asia (a network of the H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online), she helps develop and evaluate digital humanities projects with a focus on Asian studies. She holds a PhD in History and is a certified Carpentries instructor in Python for data science.

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