Dr. Scott Caddy is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities at UC-Berkeley and a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech, where he teaches multimodal composition classes. Dr. Caddy's research focuses on the intersection of literary studies and data science, particularly with genre studies and style in 19th century British literature. He has published scholarship on web adaptations of Jane Austen and forthcoming work reimagining The Mystery of Edwin Drood through stylometric analysis and data visualizations of rhetorical themes. Dr. Caddy has previous taught at Arizona State University...
Catherine Kerton-Johnson graduated with her MA in Early European History at Ball State University and is currently a PhD Candidate at Purdue University. Cathy’s research focus is the changing nature of faith practices over the English Reformation, with a particular concentration on discovering aspects of material and embodied expressions in the Early Modern corpus using digital methods. Born and raised in South Africa, she lived with her family in England for seven years before moving to Indiana. She lives on a homestead farm in Upland, Indiana with her husband, a flock of sheep and...
Matthew Kollmer is a digital humanities scholar and information scientist with a background in U.S. literary history and creative writing. He has an MA in Literary Studies from Washington State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the International Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is currently completing his PhD in Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. He has taught undergraduate courses for over a decade. His research applies NLP and machine learning methods to study U.S. history and culture...
Dr. Xiao Li is an assistant professor of history at Florida Gulf Coast University whose work bridges emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and humanistic inquiry. She designs and teaches interdisciplinary courses on archival design, visual and data analysis, and inclusive digital pedagogy. Drawing on a robust background in digital project development, Dr. Li has led major initiatives such as creating the Chinese Students at Andover digital archive and advancing cultural heritage preservation with the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative....
Andressa Maia is a PhD candidate in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. She holds a certificate in Digital Humanities, and for her dissertation, she explores novel methodologies to analyze literary texts, particularly from Brazil and Colombia, through the intersection of literary and cultural studies with digital and environmental humanities to investigate how environmental devastation is portrayed in contemporary cultural production from both countries. Her research interests lie in how artistic productions...
Cassie Tanks is an archivist, digital humanist, public historian, and first-generation student originally from San Diego, California. She is pursuing a PhD in World History at Northeastern University, has an MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and earned a bachelor’s in History from San Diego State University after achieving an AA at San Diego Mesa Community College. Tanks served as Dean’s Appointed Community Archiving and Oral History Liason for the Reckonings Project and worked closely with the late digital humanist scholar Angel David Nieves, the Director of...
Curriculum Director and Lecturer, D-Lab and Digital Humanities at Berkeley
Tom van Nuenen is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Curriculum Director at UC Berkeley’s Social Sciences Data Lab. His teaching and research explore the intersection of computational methods and cultural interpretation, with a focus on AI ethics, digital hermeneutics, and online discourse. He has led initiatives in data science for social justice, designed workshops on language bias in AI, and helped grow Berkeley’s Digital Humanities program through research, instruction, and community outreach. He has written two books on tourism in the digital age: Scripted Journeys (De...
