Education

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MS in Library and Information Science, August 2009
  • University of Chicago, BA/MA in Slavic Linguistics, June 2006; BA paper: "Palatalizations in the Old Novgorod dialect: Comparing theory and data"
  • Henry Foss High School (Tacoma, WA): International Baccalaureate Program (diploma recipient)

Work experience

  • Academic Technology Specialist; Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Stanford University, September 2018 - present
  • Service Manager; Berkeley Research Computing Consulting; Research IT, UC Berkeley, July 2017 - September 2018
  • Developer; Agile Humanities, July 2017 - March 2020
  • IT Analyst; Research IT, UC Berkeley, January 2016 - September 2018
  • Research Applications Developer / Digital Humanities Coordinator; Research IT, UC Berkeley, August 2012-December 2015
  • Digital Scholarship Specialist; IT Services, University of Chicago, May-July 2012
  • Manager, Scholarly Technology; IT Services, University of Chicago, May 2010-May 2012
  • Coordinator, Emerging Technologies; NSIT Academic Technologies, University of Chicago, 2009-2010
  • Communications Specialist/Workshop Findings Editor; Project Bamboo, 2008-2010
  • New Media Consultant; NSIT Academic Technologies, University of Chicago, 2007-2009
  • Assistant Site Developer; NSIT Web Services, University of Chicago, 2006-2007
  • Research assistant; Humanities Computing, University of Chicago, 2006-2007
  • Computing Assistant/Multimedia Computing Assistant; USITE computing cluster, University of Chicago, 2004-2007
  • Web site designer and/or webmaster, Slavic Languages & Literatures and various faculty members' home pages, 2005-2007
  • Technical director and project manager, various grant projects for University of Chicago faculty members (Medieval Slavic Database; Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian dictionary of aspectual pairs; digitizing Balkan and Caucasian course materials), 2004-2008
  • NSIT Student Advisory Committee member, 2006
  • ThoutReader/DotReader XML-based e-book creator, 2005-2007

Service

  • PC member, Computational Humanities Research conference, 2024
  • Co-President, Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), 2022-2024
  • ACH Constituent Organization Board representative to the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ACH), 2022-2024
  • Co-founder and organizer, ACH AI working group, 2023-present
  • Co-VP, ACH, 2020-2022
  • Digital Ethnic Futures mentor, 2022
  • Executive board member, Global Outlook::Digital Humanities, 2019-2021
  • Co-founder and group organizer, Multilingual DH, 2019-2023
  • Peer reviewer, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2019-present
  • Founder and group organizer, DH-WoGeM, 2018-2024
  • Executive council member, ACH, 2015-2019
  • Peer reviewer, ADHO Digital Humanities conference, 2010-present
  • Co-chair of Women in IT planning committee for UCCSC conference, 2018
  • Co-chair of ECAR/CNI working group on digital humanities, 2016-2017
  • centerNet Deputy Secretary, 2014
  • IT Services Library Liaison, 2011-2012
  • IT Services Humanities Divisional Liaison, 2010-2012
  • University of Chicago NITLE Liaison, 2009-2012
  • NSIT new employee mentor, 2009-2010

Awards

  • Europa Nostra Cultural Heritage Champion award winner (as part of SUCHO), 2023
  • Society of American Archivists Council Resolution Honoring SUCHO, 2022
  • DHSI 2021 Most Prolific Tweeter award.
  • DH 2019 innovative poster award for "Gender and Intersectional Identities in the Digital Humanities", with Rachel Hendery, Katie McDonough, and Tassie Gniady
  • UC Berkeley STAR Award recipient (for exceptional performance) 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Hazel C. Rediger Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 2010
  • Winner, Beer and Demo Jam at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009 (sponsored by Mark Logic)
  • Student Support Award, Balisage: The Markup Conference, 2009
  • 4th Year Winner, T. Kimball Brooker Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting, 2006
  • Dean's List, 2002-2006
  • Solomon-Manaster Scholarship, 2002
  • University of Chicago Honor Scholarship (full undergraduate tuition), 2002-2006
  • Nora Holdsworth Scholarship (tuition for the Summer Russian Program at University of Washington), 2002
  • Gold medal, International Olympiada of Spoken Russian; Moscow, Russia, 2001

Grants

  • Project director, DiRT directory extension and integration grant; $150,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Publications

Exhibitions

  • "Future Text" and "#CIDR-Coeur" weavings, and guestbook loom, at Thread Control pop-up exhibition. Roble Arts Gym, Stanford University. March 7-8, 2024.

Project Reviews

  • "The Data-Sitters Club", reviewed by Michelle Moravec. Journal of American History, Volume 111, Issue 2, September 2024, Pages 399–400, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaae174

Talks and Presentations

  • DH 2024 poster, "SILICON: Supporting Digitally-Disadvantaged Languages". August 7, 2024.
  • DH 2024 workshop, "#DHMakes Mini-Conference", with Claudia Berger, Gabriella Evergreen, Jojo Karlin, Anne Ladyem McDivitt, Amanda Visconti, and Jacque Wernimont. August 6, 2024.
  • DH 2024 workshop, "Teaching Machine Leaerning in the Digital Humanities", with Natalia Ermolaev, Melanie Walsh, Zoe LeBlanc, Andrew Janco, and Toma Tasovac. August 6, 2024.
  • DH 2024 workshop, "#DHRPG campaign" with Paige Morgan and Brandon Walsh. August 5, 2024.
  • University of Washington, "Shift Happens: Unlocking Old Corpora with Transkribus" lecture and workshop. May 23, 2024.
  • University of Illinois I-School, 2024 Windsor Lecture, "What Happens After the End? Crafting Sustainable Librarianship in an Age of AI". May 1, 2024.
  • University of Hong Kong, Guest lecture for CCCH9051: Digitizing Cultural Heritage in Greater China. "Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online: Socially Engaged Digital Humanities". March 27, 2024.
  • Global DH Symposium 2024, "Bridging the Gap for Digitally Disadvantaged Languages". March 20, 2024.
  • University of Central Florida, guest interview for "Critical Making for Humanist Scholarship" with Anastasia Salter. March 18, 2024.
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong DH Initiative Talk Series, "Who Did What? The Challenges of Multilingual Text Analysis, Grammar, and Copyright". September 25, 2023.
  • iPres 2023 closing keynote, "Takes All Kinds: Grassroots Digital Preservation in a Crisis and Beyond". September 22, 2023.
  • DH 2023 panel, "Readers, Tropes, and Translations: Directions for Digital Research into Youth Literature", with Agnieszka Backman, Joanna Byszuk, Anouk Lang, and Nichole Nomura. July 14, 2023.
  • DH 2023 panel, "Legal Issues in Digital Humanities: Analysis of Recent Advocacy and Continuing and Emerging Issues", with Erik Ketzan, Kim Nayyer, Lauren Tilton, Koenraad de Smedt, Paweł Kamocki, Benito Trollip, and Kiyonori Nagasaki. July 14, 2023.
  • DH 2023 poster, "Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online: Responsive Emergency DH at Scale", with Anna Kijas, Anna Rakityanskaya, and Alex Wingate. July 12, 2023.
  • DH 2023 panel, "Exploring the Borderlands: A Revolutionary Potential for DH", with Luise Borek, Sarah Lang, Domenico Fiormonte, Danielle Metilli, Padmini Ray Murray, Dibyadyuti Roy, and Melissa Terras. July 12, 2023.
  • DH 2023 workshop, "Multilingual taxonomy initiative - TaDiRAH as community of practice", with Luise Borek, Canan Hastik, Daan Broeder, Annika Rockenberger, Kiyonori Nagasaki, Ryo Mochizuki, Shumpei Katakura, Drahomira Cupar, and Ikki Ohmukai. July 10, 2023.
  • ACH 2023 panel, Digital (Humanities) Trace Data: Critical Approaches to Platforms, APIs, and Metrics for Studying DH Communities, with Jennifer Isasi, Riva Quiroga, Zoe LeBlanc, Jeri E. Wieringa, and Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara. July 1, 2023.
  • ACH 2023, "#DHMakes Alternate Format Presentation", with Claudia Berger, Alix Keener, Jojo Karlin, Anne Ladyem McDivitt, Amanda Visconti, and Jacque Wernimont. July 1, 2023.
  • Carleton College, Day of DH 2023 keynote, "Seriously Fun: Building Resilience Through Play in DH Praxis". June 2, 2023.
  • Hong Kong University, "Multilingual Cultural Analytics Workshop", with Melanie Walsh. June 1, 2023.
  • Hong Kong University, "Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) and the Stakes of Digital Humanities". June 1, 2023.
  • CESTA, Stanford University, lunchtime talk series. "Socially-Engaged Digital Humanities", with Anna Kijas, Sebastian Majstorovic, Andreas Segerberg, Ulia Gosart, and Sam Dombrowski. May 9, 2023.
  • IIPC WAC 2023. "Empowering Bibliographers to Build Collections: The Browsertrix Cloud Pilot at Stanford Libraries", with Ed Summers, Laura Wrubel, and Peter Chan. May 3, 2023.
  • IIPC WAC 2023. "What Next? An Update from SUCHO", with Anna Kijas, Sebastian Majstorovic, and Andreas Segerberg. May 3, 2023.
  • San Jose State University, Ukrainian libraries during the wartime: A year in review event. "Preserving Digital Cultural Heritage: Lessons and Perspectives from SUCHO", with Anna Kijas and Sebastian Majstorovic. April 5, 2023.
  • DHNB 2023. "Våran klubb, Barnvaktsklubben or The Baby-Sitters Club: The Data-Sitters Club as an International Community", with Agnieszka Backman. March 10, 2023.
  • DHNB 2023 workshop Challenges of long-term sustainability of DH projects: the LAM (Libraries, Archives and Museums) perspective. "(Re)Considering Digital Preservation 10 Years after Bamboo". March 7, 2023.
  • University of Tennessee, Ready for the World Series Program: Ukraine. "Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)". February 24, 2023.
  • University of Buffalo, Digital Scholarship Studio & Network (DSSN): “We've been here all along.”: DH and invisible labor. "The Currency of DH". February 16, 2023.
  • Comics: More Than Words DLCL working group. "Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online and SUCHO Memes". February 14, 2023.
  • Panelist, "Digital Archives", with Anna Kijas, Andreas Segerberg, Naya Sucha-xaya, and K.J. Rawson. Association of Canadian Archivists Student Chapter at the University of British Columbia, 14th Annual International Seminar. February 10, 2023.
  • Jewish Historical Society of Michigan, "Warrior Librarians for Ukraine: Saving Jewish & Ukrainian Cultural Heritage", with Kiley Jolicoeur and Anna Kijas. January 12, 2023.
  • Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), "Reactive and Proactive Archiving of Crisis". December 13, 2022.
  • Цифровая среда lecture series, DHRI @ Сибирский федеральный университет. "Directories as Utopian Infrastructure". November 16, 2022.
  • Reframing Failure seminar, Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Panelist for "Setting the Failure Agenda" with David De Roure and Jane Winters. November 15, 2022.
  • Building Digital Humanities, Western Sydney University speaker series. Panelist on "Designing user-friendly Platforms and Toolkits for Digital Humanities", with Tim Sherratt, Ruth Mostern, Michael Haugh, Martin Schweinberger, and Ian Johnson. November 14, 2022.
  • Animating Text, Newcastle University speaker series. "Computational Analysis of Youth Fiction with the Young Readers Database of Literature", with Nichole Nomura. November 9, 2022.
  • Stanford Literary Lab. "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Coreference", with Mark Algee-Hewitt, Nichole Nomura, and Matt Warner. October 31, 2022.
  • Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage. "SUCHO: Protecting Digital Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis", with Anna Kijas, Sebastian Majstorovic, Andreas Segerberg. October 18, 2022.
  • Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage. Presenter at <em>ACDH-CH Tool Gallery 8.2: Teaching Digital Humanities</em>. October 18, 2022.
  • University of Gothenburg, public lecture, "Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online", with Anna Kijas, Sebastian Majstorovic, Andreas Segerberg. October 14, 2022.
  • European Summer University in Digital Humanities, public lecture, "Collaborative Volunteering in the Digital Humanities: Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)", with Sebastian Majstorovic. August 8, 2022.
  • FCSI 2022 closing keynote, "Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) and the Future of Archivable Scholarly Communication". July 29, 2022.
  • DH 2022 panel, "The (Im)Possibilities of Multilingual DH in Theory and Practice: Translation, Metadata, Pedagogy", with Cecily Raynor, Lidia Ponce de la Vega, Marie-France Guénette, Eric Kim, and Samya Brata Roy. July 27, 2022.
  • DH 2022 short paper, "Quantifying Representation of Asian Identity in 21st-century Anglophone Fiction", with Nichole Nomura. July 27, 2022.
  • Coherent Digital ALA Breakfast presentation, "The extraordinary story of SUCHO: Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online", with Anna Kijas and Sebastian Majstorovic. June 26, 2022.
  • IIPC Web Archiving 2022 conference. "Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online" panelist. May 25, 2022.
  • CIFNAL speaker series. "Corpus Hebdo: Building Infrastructure for Multilingual Digital Humanities". May 20, 2022.
  • DH Unbound 2022. "My Tags, Your Avvertimenti, Their Предупреждения: Self-Censorship and Metadata Across Fanfic Archives", with Steele Douris and Masha Gorshkova. May 19, 2022.
  • DH Unbound 2022. "Checking In: Digital Humanities Librarian Staff Summer Chat" discussion panel with Alex Gil, Claudia Berger, and Scott Weingart. May 18, 2022.
  • DH Unbound 2022. "Rip it! New Developments in US Copyright Law to Enable Text and Data Mining" panel with Lauren Tilton, Erik Stallman, and Rachael Samberg. May 17, 2022.
  • Charleston In-Between. Speaker on "In the News" panel on the Ukraine Conflict and its chilling impact on the conduct of research, scholarship, education. May 11, 2022.
  • CUDAN Open Lab Lecture, Tallinn University. "Coding, Childcare, and Badly-Behaved Tools: Adventures in Multilingual 'Data-Sitting'". May 5, 2022.
  • Day of DH 2022 keynote, University of North Texas. "Taking Fun Seriously." April 29, 2022.
  • An IFAR Evening in the Afternoon. Panelist for presentation on "Ukrainian Cultural Heritage: What's Damaged; Destroyed; Documented; and Being Done". April 27, 2022.
  • Fiesole Retreat 2022. "Nimble Tents and Bunkers: Safeguarding Digital Cultural Heritage". April 6, 2022.
  • Internet Archive all-staff meeting. "SUCHO, the IA, and the Future of Preserving Digital Cultural Heritage". March 25, 2022.
  • Internet Archive's Library as Laboratory series. "Libraries, Laboratories, Back Alleys". March 16, 2022.
  • DHARTI 2022. "Diasporic Depictions: India in 21st Century Anglophone Fiction for Young Readers", with Nichole Nomura. February 22, 2022.
  • Digital Approaches to Multilingual Text Analysis, Australian National University. "Non-English DH is Not a Thing". January 27, 2022.
  • EADH 2020-2021. Poster: "Leveraging Computational Methods for Comparing Low-Prestige Translations", with Lee Skallerup Bessette, Katherine Bowers, Mariia Gorshkova, Isabelle Gribomont, Courtney Hodrick, Jennifer Isasi, Maria Massucco, Cosima Wagner, Ella Elbaz, Ona Ona Bantjes-Rafols. September 23, 2021.
  • Max Weber Foundation DH Working Group. Roundtable participant, "Discussing the Seven Seas of DH - A Global Fishbowl". September 17, 2021.
  • JADH 2021. "Virtual Communities and Post-Pandemic Possibilities: Animal Crossing New Digital Humanities", with Liz Grumbach and Merve Tekgürler. September 8, 2021.
  • ACH 2021. Roundtable: "Who Needs Tool Directories?: A Forum on Sustaining Discovery Portals Large and Small", with Lisa Spiro, Geoffrey Rockwell, Frank Fischer, Edward Gray, and Alex Gil. July 22, 2021.
  • ACH 2021 alternate format. "Animal Crossing: New Digital Humanities: A Special Report from the 'Field'", with Liz Grumbach and Merve Tekgürler. July 21, 2021.
  • Huizinga summer school 2021. Keynote: "Infrastructure, labor, collective action: putting the 'human' in 'digital humanities'". July 7, 2021.
  • DHSI 2021 Open/Social/Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Training, and Mentorship workshop. "Serious Play: Exploring Time, Power, and Vocational Awe through the DH RPG", with Agnieszka Backman and Sabrina Grimberg. June 17, 2021.
  • DHSI 2021 Institute Lecture. "Graceful Degradation in Collaborative Relationships", with Erica Cavanaugh. June 9, 2021.
  • !!Con 2021. "Tropes! Cliches! Made-Up Slang! It's the Data-Sitters Club!". May 17, 2021.
  • INTELE webinar. "Computational Text Analysis for Spanish". GitHub repo. May 17, 2021.
  • 3rd Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities. "Tools for Text Mining and Analysis: Practical Approaches". May 11, 2021.
  • CSDH-SCHN 2021. "From Spaghetti-O’s to Osso Bucco: Francophone Translations of Suburban America", with Lee Skallerup-Bessette and Isabelle Gribomont. May 30, 2021.
  • Digital Frontiers: Realizing Resistance Episode II: Uncharted Galaxies. "'Whatever You Do, Don't Stare': Modeling Representation of Otherness in the Star Wars Expanded Universe", with Mark Algee-Hewitt, Nichole Nomura, and Matt Warner. May 3, 2021.
  • DARIAH "DH Goes Viral" Digital Workshop. Lightning talk: "Adventures in COVID Corpus Building". April 26, 2021.
  • DH Long View lecture series, UCL DH / CESTA. "Humanités numériques, цифровые гуманитарные науки, デジタル・ヒューマニティーズ: Histories and Futures of Linguistic Diversity in DH". April 14, 2021.
  • Global DH Symposium 2021. "Multilingual Pedagogy in the Digital Humanities Classroom: Case Studies from 2020", with Courtney Hodrick, Lakmali Jayasinghe, Eric Kim, Victoria Rahbar, Cecily Raynor, Merve Tekgürler.
  • El'Manuscript 2021. Keynote: "From Annotation to Modeling: Computational Horizons for Medieval Slavic Studies". April 12, 2021.
  • Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Panelist for "Critical Digital Pedagogies for Modern Languages in Higher Education". March 3, 2021.
  • Stanford Literary Lab. "The Data-Sitters Club", with Lee Skallerup Bessette, Katherine Bowers, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Anouk Lang, and Roopika Risam. February 18, 2021.
  • DH webinar for Seshadripuram Evening Degree College, Bangalore, India. "Multilingual DH". February 15, 2021.
  • DHARTI Speaks lecture series. "Beyond Defaults: Multilingual DH meets Cultural Analytics. January 15, 2021.
  • TextXD 2020. Lightning talk, "Language is a Domain: Use the Bender Rule". December 10, 2020.
  • Nicholas S. Sawchen Lecture Series in Slavic Studies, University of British Columbia. "Computational Methods for Russian Literature : Current State and Future Directions", with Andrew Janco. November 17, 2020.
  • Spectrums of DH lecture series, McGill University. "What's a 'word': Multilingual DH and the English Default". October 15, 2020.
  • Digital Frontiers Flyover Comics Symposium 2020. "Layered Adaptation and Warped Nostalgia in Francophone Translations of the Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels", with Lee Skallerup Bessette. September 24, 2020.
  • DH 2020. Organized an Animal Crossing: New Horizons lightning talk series with Shawn Moore and presented on ACNH humor. July 24, 2020.
  • DH 2020 Digital Literary Stylistics SIG Tool Criticism 3.0 workshop. "It Doesn't Work:" Failure and DH Tools. July 21, 2020.
  • DHSI 2020 project management workshop. "Rolling the Dice on Project Management". June 20, 2020.
  • Disrupting Digital Monolingualism. Co-organized a weeklong asynchronous discussion of multilingualism and NLP with Kalika Bali. June 15-19, 2020.
  • UC Berkeley DH Reading Group. "The Continuing Adventures of Гаррик, Рон, и Гермиона: Harry Potter Fanfic Across the Globe", with Steele Douris, Masha Gorshkova, and Antonio Lenzo. May 6, 2020.
  • CMEMS lunch talk series. "The Novgorod Birchbark Letters and the Power of the Ordinary". April 15, 2020.
  • DARIAH Twitter Conference. "DH in the Time of Virus". April 2, 2020.
  • Feminist DH Symposium, Scholars' Lab, University of Virginia. "The 2040 Plan". February 28, 2020.
  • University of Virginia Slavic department. "The Continuing Adventures of Гаррик, Рон, и Гермиона: Harry Potter Fanfic Across the Globe", with Steele Douris, Masha Gorshkova, and Antonio Lenzo. February 27, 2020.
  • Stanford Literary Lab. "Translation", with Yulia Ilchuk and J.D. Porter. February 18, 2020.
  • CESTA lunchtime talk series. "Multilingual Fanfic", with Steele Douris, Masha Gorshkova, and Antonio Lenzo. January 1, 2021.
  • DHARTI Twitter Conference 2020. "Multilingual DH". January 19, 2020.
  • Fantastic Futures 2019. "OCR with Transkribus" workshop. December 9, 2019.
  • Stanford Literary Lab presentation. "Multilingual Fanfic: Metadata Edition", with Steele Douris, Masha Gorshkova, Antonio Lenzo. December 9, 2019.
  • ASEEES 2019. "Digital Migrations: Diasporas, Transnational Circulations, and Border Crossings through the Lens of Digital Humanities" roundtable presenter with Natalia Ermolaev, Philip Gleissner, Yasha Klots, and Jessie Labov.
  • Trending at Stanford University Libraries. "Multilingual DH". October 17, 2019.
  • ACH 2019. "Whose Infrastructure Is It Anyway?" With Thea Lindquist and Abigail Potter.
  • ACH 2019. "Lived Experiences: Gender and DH Roundtable". With Andie Silva, Tassie Gniady, and Jen Guiliano.
  • Digital Humanities 2019. Poster: "Gender and Intersectional Identities in the Digital Humanities". With Rachel Hendery, Katie McDonough, and Tassie Gniady.
  • Digital Humanities 2019. Poster: "DARIAH Beyond Europe", with Frank Fischer, Jennifer Edmond, Toma Tasovac, Marco Raciti, Sally Chambers, Joke Daems, Piraye Hacigüzeller, Kathleen Smith, Glen Worthey, Abigail Potter, Meghan Ferriter, Kylie Brass, Rowan Brownlee, and Alexis Tindall.
  • Digital Humanities 2019. Roundtable: "Methodology as Community: Fostering Collaboration Beyond Scholarly Societies."  With Peter Haslinger, Antonina Puchkovskaia, Seth Bernstein, Katherine Hill Reischl, Thomas Keenan, and Yuliya Ilchuk.
  • Women and Gender Minorities in DH (Workshop, Stanford University). "Bridges". 2019. 
  • Workshop on Digital Humanities to Preserve Knowledge and Cultural Heritage (Stanford University). "Linguistic Fingerprints on Translation’s Lens". With J.D. Porter, Antonio Lenzo, and Yulia Ilchuk. GitHub repo
  • On the Benefits of Failure (University of Alberta workshop), "Towards a Taxonomy of Failure". March 2018.
  • Digital Humanities 2017. Paper: "A Capacity Building Framework for Institutional Digital Humanities Support", with Joan Lippincott and Karen Wetzel.
  • Digital Humanities 2017. Panel: "Research Computing’s Demand for Humanists, and Vice Versa", with Tassie Gniady, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Jeff Tharsen, and Lee Zickel.
  • Digital Humanities 2017. Workshop: "High Performance Computing for Photogrammetry and OCR Made Easy", with Tassie Gniady, Megan Meredith-Lobay, and John Simpson.
  • UCLA DH Infrastructure Symposium. "Supercomputing Meets Cultural Heritage: Supporting Photogrammetry at Scale". 2017.
  • UCLA DH Infrastructure Symposium. "OCR: Precision and Scale". 2017.
  • DH-CASE II (DocEng pre-conference workshop), "Digital Humanities Development without Developers: Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition", with Ronelle Alexander. September 2014.
  • ROHO Advanced Oral History Summer Institute, "Digital humanities and oral history". August 2014.
  • Digital Humanities 2014, "Scholarly primitives revisited: towards a practical taxonomy of digital humanities research activities and objects" (short paper). July 2014. abstract
  • Digital Humanities 2014, "Spreading DiRT: Extending the Digital Research Tools Directory" (poster). July 2014. abstract
  • DARIAH pre-conference workshop at Digital Humanities 2014, "Who cares about infrastructure?" (keynote). July 2014. slides
  • Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Colloquium, "Organizing DiRT: On developing a digital humanities taxonomy" (poster). June 2014.
  • BADCamp 2013, "Drupal for Humanists: Lessons Learned in Teaching Scholars to Build Drupal Sites for Research". October 2013.
  • Digital Humanities 2013, "What Ever Happened to Project Bamboo?". July 2013.
  • Learning Mode: Critical Issues in Online Education, panel presenter on "Experiences, Outcomes and Continuing Education". UC Berkeley, March 2013.
  • American Theological Library Association guest speaker, "Project Bamboo: the Rise and Fall of a Humanities Cyberinfrastructure Project". March 2013.
  • PNC 2012, "Communicating Culture: Bulgarian Dialectology as a Living Tradition", with Ronelle Alexander. December 2012.
  • ASEEES 2012, roundtable speaker, New Frontiers in Slavic Studies: Digital Humanities in Theory and Practice. November 2012.
  • ASEEES 2012, "Research Without Travel: Independent Scholarship in the Digital World", as part of Boundaries: the Challenges for Independent Scholars in Slavic and East European Studies. November 2012.
  • BADCamp 2012, "Drupal and Digital Humanities". November 2012.
  • 7th Annual Slavic Linguistics Society Conference, "Digital Publication without Code: the Evolution of the Sofia-Berkeley Archive of Bulgarian Dialectal Speech" with Ronelle Alexander. August 2012.
  • FASL 21: "XML Markup of the Novgorod Birchbark Letter Corpus: Etymology, Morphology, and Sociolinguistic". With Andrew Dombrowski, Rafael Abramovitz, and Anton Melnikov. May 2012.
  • 15th Annual Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop: “Etymological markup of the birchbark letter corpus: Methodologies and results.” With Andrew Dombrowski, Rafael Abramovitz, and Anton Melnikov. April 2012.
  • Carbs & Computation lecture series (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "A Bamboo Overview of Tools for Digital Humanities Research" (inaugural talk). 17 February 2012. video
  • AATSEEL 2012: panel organizer/chair, "Digital Slavic Linguistics"; talks "Etymological Markup of the Birchbark Letter Corpus", "Bulgarian Dialect Analysis as an Evolving Tradition" and "Student-Driven Collaborative Reference in Slavic Linguistics" were joint projects presented by collaborators.
  • MLA 2012: pre-convention workshop co-organizer, "Getting Started in Digital Humanities with DHCommons".
  • HASTAC V: "Project Bamboo: Building Applications and Shared Infrastructure for Humanities Research".
  • 2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science: poster, "DHCommons and Bamboo DiRT: integrating digital humanities directories". With Ryan Cordell. poster
  • University of Chicago Medical Education Day 2011: poster, "Integration of the "Virtual Human Embryo" into the First Year Anatomy Curriculum". With Callum F. Ross, Jim C. O'Reilly, and Sam Quinan. poster
  • 14th Annual Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop: "From Theory to Practice: An Update on the Medieval Slavic Wiki". With Monica Vickers, The Ohio State University. slides
  • 2010 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science: "A 'Wikipedia model' for modernizing scholarly reference" Slides
  • 2010 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science: poster, "Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur: an examination of university library graffiti"
  • 5th Annual Slavic Linguistic Society Conference, "Modernizing Research through Collaborative Reference Tools: The Medieval Slavic Linguistics Wiki". 2010.
  • International Symposium on XML for the Long Haul: Issues in the Long-term Preservation of XML (at Balisage 2010), "A formal approach to XML semantics: implications for archive standards".
  • 17th Balkan and South Slavic Conference 2010, "An XML-based approach to dialectological data: The development of syllabic liquids in Bulgarian" presentation materials
  • Midwest Slavic Conference 2010, "Adventures in Digital Filigranology: A new digital edition of N. P. Likhachev's watermark album"
  • NITLE summit 2010, poster presentation, "Wikifying Reference: How Students Can Help Modernize Scholarship"
  • AAASS 2009, "Old Church Slavonic dictionaries: two approaches to data models and standards"
  • Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009, poster and impromptu talk, "Visualizing Bulgarian Dialect Data"
  • NITLE summit 2009, poster and Three Minutes of Fame presentation, "Project Bamboo: Explore, Innovate, Create" slides

Current Projects

  • Founder of The Data-Sitters Club, a feminist DH pedagogy project to write a fun, colloquial guide to computational text analysis using Ann M. Martin's series "The Baby-Sitters Club", 2019-present
  • Founder of the Stanford Textile Makerspace, 2018-present

Selected Past Projects

  • Co-editor of Coding for Humanists book series, published by Texas A&M Press, 2015-2020.
  • Director and developer of the DiRT (Digital Research Tools) Directory, a centerNet initiative, 2011-2017.
  • Co-founder and developer of the DHCommons project directory, a centerNet initiative, 2011-2017.
  • Technical editor of the DHCommons journal, centerNet's publication that provided peer review for mid-stage digital projects, 2012-2017.

Professional Development

  • HathiTrust Research Center workshop series, fall 2021
  • Stanford ICME Fundamentals of Data Science summer workshop certificate, August 2020
  • Building Legal Literacies for Text and Data Mining NEH institute, June 2020
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), May 2018
  • UC IT Leadership Academy, 2017-2018 (6-day intensive training sponsored by UCOP for IT leaders throughout the UC system)
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), May 2018.
  • Research Facilitation training; UCSD; April 2017
  • ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management; June 2016; PeopleCert GR750248625QD.
  • EDUCAUSE Management Institute; Boulder, CO; July 2010
  • Virtual World Librarianship: Your Second Life, University of Illinois, May-July 2007
  • Slavic Digital Text Workshop, University of Illinois, June 2007
  • International Seminar on Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture; Ohrid, Macedonia; August 2006
  • Ohio State University, Medieval Slavic Summer Institute, June-July 2006

Teaching

  • Princeton Center for Digital Humanities. Instructor for NEH-funded institute "New Languages for NLP". 2021-2022.
  • Stanford University, DLCL 205/305: Project Management and Ethical Collaboration for Humanists, winter 2020.
  • Stanford University, DLCL 204: Digital Humanities Across Borders, winter 2019. 
  • Stanford University, CIDR workshops on research data management, data modeling, Cytoscape, Tableau, and Zotero/Tropy. 2018-present.
  • Drupal for Digital Humanities Projects workshop, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, 2014-2016 
  • Workshops on Drupal for digital research projects at UC Berkeley's D-Lab, 2013-2014 academic year
  • THATCamp LAC workshop: "If Google Can’t Find Your Project, Does It Exist? or, How to Build a Website in 90 Minutes", June 2011
  • THATCamp Chicago workshop: "Pointy brackets and you: a practical introduction to web design and XML/TEI", November 2010
  • Guest lecturer on XML, TEI and XSLT for Digital Humanities course at the University of Puget Sound, April 2010
  • Lecturer, 1st year Russian, fall 2006
  • Drill instructor, 4th year Russian, fall 2006

Professional Organizations

  • Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH)

Languages

  • English (native), Russian (advanced), Spanish (intermediate)

Media

Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online

The Humanities

Data-Sitters Club

Textile Makerspace

Graffiti