Rachel is a PhD student in Education Policy & Organizations with a specialization in Higher Education Administration. Using a Black feminist epistemology, Rachel evaluates the political economy of public higher education. Her work employs a number of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and utilizes a range of conceptual frameworks, but at the heart of Rachel's work is a deep commitment to uplifting agency and equity for historically marginalized students and communities.
In the twilight of his undergraduate career, Christopher Lee is very excited to graduate this fall from U.C. Berkeley with a degree in English and Art History. His work deals with medieval culture in both literature and art, with a particular interest in relics and cult images. His latest projects have considered the grammar analogy in Piers Plowman, the juxtaposition of image and text in The Lancelot Prose, and Louis IX’s dispersal of thorns from Christ’s crown from the Sainte-Chapelle. This last project was his introduction to the digital humanities.
Cody Hennesy is the E-Learning and Information Studies Librarian at UC Berkeley, where he leads the Library's digital literacy initiative. His focus in academic libraries is on the intersections of information technology and scholarly research methods, and current interests include computational text analysis. He worked previously as the Systems & Services Librarian at California College of the Arts in Oakland.
Janet is a PhD student in the department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning focusing on the mechanisms required to create resilient landscapes and adaptive societies. Their background is in urban & regional planning, hydrology, and international development. Their dissertation focuses on the planning and implementation roles of regions in the Republic of Cuba. This research integrates Geographic Information Systems (GIS), socio-economic analysis, and environmental science.
I just started as an Assistant Professor in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. I have held positions as a postdoctoral research fellow at Digital Humanities @ Berkeley, the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, and the Management and Organizations Department in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and was also a resea
Dr. Adam G. Anderson (admndrsn@berkeley.edu) joined UC Berkeley in 2017 as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Digital Humanities at Berkeley. Since then he has worked as a post-doc lecturer in Digital Humanities and in Data Science. As an academic coordinator for Digital Humanities at Berkeley, Adam is co-author and designer of the Theory and Methods and Archives curriculum for the DigHum Minor and Certificate Program.
Teddy Roland holds an MA in English from the University of Chicago. There he studied circuits of capital in American modernist poetry and their intersection with questions of poetic form. His humanistic work depends on natural language processing tools and machine learning in order to rethink and trace out the proliferation of poetic forms in magazine corpora. Teddy also works as a research assistant for a project on the American novel in the long Twentieth Century. He scrapes and curates the data and metadata of a textual database shared among researches at several institutions.
Brandon Schneider is the Outreach Coordinator for Digital Humanities at Berkeley, where he earned his PhD in Italian Studies with a Certicate in New Media. Schneider is also the Assistant Director of The Program for the Study of Italy at Berkeley.