Sarah Whitcomb Laiola is an assistant professor of Digital Culture and Design at Coastal Carolina University, where she specializes in new media poetics, visual culture, critical race and gender studies, and contemporary digital technoculture. Her recent peer-reviewed publications appear in Hyperrhiz (2019), Criticism (Jan 2019), American Quarterly (Sept 2018), and Television and New Media (July 2017).

Tom van Nuenen is an academically trained researcher, teacher and consultant with a PhD in media and culture. He has over seven years of experience in applying mixed methods to solve social, ethical and development questions related to big data and AI. I am passionate about the ethical impact of datafication on society, particularly in developing countries, and holds a special interest in travel and tourism. He has worked and taught courses across the world, including Berkeley, Shanghai, Copenhagen and Sydney and is currently investigating digital discrimination at King’s College London.

Jonathan Reeve is a PhD candidate in computational literary analysis at Columbia University and writes computer programs that help us understand novels and poetry. He is a researcher that specializes in computational literary analysis, including computational text analysis, natural language processing, and computational linguistics. I build software for digital literary analysis, design textual infrastructures, and work with digital literary archives.

Adam G. Anderson is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities. Serving on the Academic Advisory Board for Digital Humanities at Berkeley, he is co-author and designer of the Theory and Methods curriculum for the DIGHUM Minor. His work brings together the fields of computational linguistics, archaeology and Assyriology / Sumerology to quantify the social and economic landscapes emerging during the Bronze Age in the ancient Near East. His research interests include network analysis, archival studies, geospatial mapping and language modeling (NLP). He applies these mixed methods to large datasets of ancient texts and archaeological records, in order to better understand the lives of individuals and groups within ancient societies, and to relate these findings within the context of our lives today.

Evan Muzzall earned his PhD in Anthropology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2015 and is currently the D-Lab Instructional Services Lead. He designed and teaches the course “Practicing the Digital Humanities Practicum” (DIGHUM101) for the UC Berkeley DH Summer Minor and Certificate Program, has also developed in-person and online data science courses and workshops, and enthusiastically mentors D-Lab and DH instructors. He has published in Dental Anthropology, Medical Mycology, and The Bioarchaeology of Frontiers and Borderlands.

Claudia von Vacano received a Master’s degree from Stanford University in Learning, Design, and Technology. Her doctorate is in Policy, Organizations, Measurement, and Evaluation from UC Berkeley. She is D-Lab’s Executive Director and the Digital Humanities at Berkeley, and is on the boards of the Social Science Matrix and Berkeley Center for New Media. She oversees programs including 300 computational and data-intensive workshops and 1,400 consultations. She is the lead online course developer of the SAGE Campus course “Introduction to Applied Data Science Methods for Social Scientists.” She is also the P.I. of the Measuring Hate Speech project with financial support from Google Jigsaw and the Social Science Research Council.

Justin Berner is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley, where his studies focus on contemporary Spanish film and literature, new media, and environmental criticism.

James Corby is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English at the University of Malta. He is General Co-Editor of CounterText: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary, launched with Edinburgh University Press in 2015, and a founding member of the Futures of Literature Network. He has published widely on literature, philosophy, performance, and politics.