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...
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...
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...
Merve Tekgürler is a historian and digital humanist whose research bridges computational methods and early modern history. They are a PhD candidate in History and an M.S. student in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. Their dissertation, Crucible of Empire: Danubian Borderlands in the Long 18th Century, investigates how news and information networks shaped imperial governance in the Ottoman-Polish borderlands during a period of geopolitical crisis. The project employs an interdisciplinary methodology that combines historical research with digital tools—including handwritten text...
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...
