Tatiana Bryant is the Co-Director of California Digital Humanities Research Institute and Research Librarian for Digital Humanities, History, and African American Studies at UC Irvine. At UC Irvine she co-leads the Digital Humanities Exchange, which organizes dh programs, trainings, and skill shares for campus community building. She holds an MPA in Public and Nonprofit Policy from New York University, an MS in Information and Library Science from Pratt Institute, and a BA in History from Hampton University. She has taught Black digital humanities, Global Studies, and information literacy courses at the undergraduate level.
Dr. Zoe Borovsky is the Co-Director of California Digital Humanities Research Institute and UCLA’s Librarian for Digital Research and Scholarship. She works within the User Engagement department as a liaison to the Digital Humanities Program and the Anthropology department. Zoe has a background in the humanities (PhD in Scandinavian Literature from UC Berkeley) and joined UCLA’s Center for Digital Humanities in 2000. She moved to the UCLA Libraries in 2011 to launch the Research Commons and was instrumental in establishing UCLA’s Digital Humanities minor and certificate program. She works to integrate digital tools, collections, and methods into research workflows by creating services and programs.
Instructors
Yoh Kawano came to Los Angeles and UCLA after living across the globe, in 5 different countries. At UCLA he works at the GIS and Visualization Sandbox as a member of the Research Technology Group for the Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC), serving as a Lead Computation Scientist for GIS and Spatial Data Science. He has supervised projects in urban planning, emergency preparedness, disaster relief, volunteerism, archaeology, social justice, and the digital humanities. Current research and projects involve the geo-spatial web, visualization of temporal and spatial data, and creating systems that leverage data science methods. In the summer of 2020, Yoh completed the PhD program at UCLA’s Department of Urban Planning, submitting his dissertation titled “Human Error and Human Healing in a Risk Society: The Forgotten Narratives of Fukushima.”
Yoh is on the faculty in both the Urban Planning Department and the Digital Humanities Program. In Urban Planning, he teaches “GIS and Spatial Data Science” in the Master program, and in the Digital Humanities, he teaches “Introduction to Digital Mapping: Web GIS.”
Eleanor Koehl is the Sr. Program Manager for Research Facilitation in the Office of Advanced Research Computing at UCLA. Previously she was Associate Director for Outreach and Education Services for the HathiTrust Research Center and Digital Scholarship Librarian at HathiTrust. She led training and outreach for the HathiTrust Research Center, which facilitates computational text analysis of the HathiTrust Digital Library. She was one of the key personnel on an IMLS-funded project called Digging Deeper, Reaching Further, which developed a train-the-trainer curriculum for librarians to develop skills to support TDM.
Wendy Perla Kurtz is a lecturer and project scientist with the Program in Digital Humanities at UCLA, where she teaches courses and supports Digital Humanities projects through the Digital Research Consortium. Dr. Kurtz holds a doctorate in Hispanic Literature from UCLA and her research lies at the intersection of cultural memory, digital mapping, and human rights. Her current project explores the ritualistic aspects of mourning practices represented in textual and visual media pertaining to the disinterment of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship.
Nick Schwieterman is a PhD student in the Information Studies department at UCLA and a Research and Instructional Technology Consultant with Humanities Technology and Digital Research Consortium. Nick holds an MLIS with a Digital Humanities certificate from UCLA and his research explores measure, the relationship between information and self, and corresponding concepts such as doubt, risk, and opacity. He has worked in several information institutions including libraries, archives, and museums, and has experience with the command line, topic modelling, mapping, network analysis, website design, and scripting/programming.
Andy Rutkowski is currently the Visualization Librarian at USC Libraries. In this role he works with students, faculty, and other researchers to create visualizations using a variety of different types of data and software/tools/methods. He is presently a co-PI on an IMLS National Forum grant that is focused on creating a community of practice around visualization literacy and pedagogy in libraries. He regularly teaches a course in USC’s Dornsife School, Images of Los Angeles: Visualizing Data, which explores LA through civic data and analog and digital visualization methods as well as a Big Data for Planning and Development through USC’s Price Executive Master in Urban Planning program. Most recently he began teaching a Research Methods course in USC’s MMLIS program.
His research interests include collections as data, minimal computing, digital humanities, and advocating for ethically and critically using data and tools in academic research. Andy has extensive experience with GIS, map librarianship, and government information. He graduated from New York University with an M.A. from the Draper Program in Humanities and Social Thought and an M.A. in Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies. He also holds an MLIS from the Palmer School at Long Island University.
Stacy R. Williams is the Librarian for the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a librarian, she works with students, faculty, staff, and other researchers to access collections, archives, images, and databases that will support scholarly interests in African American/Black Diaspora Studies. She received her MLS in Library Science from Queens College/CUNY, a BA in Social Sciences from New York University, and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Heritage Conservation from the School of Architecture at USC.
sam carter received her B.A. in Modern Culture & Media from Brown University. She went on to get her M.A. in New Media & Digital Cultures from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where she had the experience of executing collaborative research with computer scientists, artists, and humanists from around the world. Currently, sam is a Ph.D. candidate in the Visual Studies program at University of California, Irvine, researching marginalized cultural production.
Joy Guey is an emerging technologies advocate at the Social Sciences Center for Education Research and Technology. She directs the Bridge Innovation Studio where she enjoys working with faculty, staff, and students on leveraging online tools and using immersive technologies to explore various research topics in the social sciences. She received a BA in Psychology and minored in Digital Humanities before completing the Master of Social Science program at UCLA in 2019.
Stacey Shin is a Ph.D. candidate in English and a Research and Instructional Technology Consultant at UCLA. She earned an A.B. in English at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include late 20th and 21st Century American literature, speculative and science fiction, and race and ethnicity. Her dissertation examines the intersection of time, space, and race in Afrofuturist cultural production. During her graduate career she has taught several service learning courses, and she has coordinated research programs to support FGLI scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts.
Pradeep Kannan is a Research and Instructional Technology Consultant at UCLA HumTech, and is a doctoral candidate in musicology at UCLA. He studied music at the University of Oxford and musicology at King’s College London. He is also an alumnus of the Mellon-funded UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative.
Jesslyn Whittell is a PhD candidate in English at UCLA and a Research and Instructional Technology Consultant at Humtech. Her dissertation examines the rise of radical didactic literature in the Romantic period, focusing on the relationship between information and imperialism in Romantic poetry. She has a BA in computer science and experience with data structures, systems, and HTML. Outside of UCLA, she is a poet interested in digital and multi-sensory poetry.