About
I analyze, develop, and apply multimodal AI to the study of media, drawing on Computational and Digital Humanities, American Studies, Media Studies, Public Humanities, and Data Science. I am committed to interdisciplinary, collaborative, and open access scholarship, and my research takes multimodal forms including articles, books, data, exhibitions, public humanities projects, and software. I am the inaugural Director of the Center for Liberal Arts and AI (CLAAI), which works with 17 liberal arts colleges in the Associated Colleges of the South to build capacity for AI teaching and research. I served as President of the national and international DH scholarly associations: the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). I earned my PhD in American Studies from Yale University.
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Upcoming Travel & Talks/Workshops
- Oct 13–16, 2026“AI Analysis of Film and TV.” 2026 Schmidt Sciences HAVI Awardee Convening. London (UK).
- Oct 29, 2026Digital Humanities Talk. University of Virginia.
- Nov 25, 2026“Digital Humanities and Image Analysis.” AI Social Sciences Seminar, Computational Social Sciences team, CREST / Institut Polytechnique de Paris (France).
- Nov 28, 2026Keynote Address. Korean Association for Digital Humanities (KADH) (Korea).
Projects
Selected Honors & Recognition
- Computational Humanities Research Best Short Paper Award, 2024 — for “Automated Image Color Mapping for a Historic Photographic Collection”
- Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI) Open Scholarship Award Honorable Mention, 2024 — for Layered Lives: Rhetoric and Representation in the Southern Life History Project
- American Studies Association’s Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities, 2022 — for Photogrammar.org
- 2022 Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Award for Best Edited Collection — contributor, Deep Mediations
In the Media
“Students and AI: Attitudes, Concerns, and What Colleges Need to Know.” D. Wheeler. The Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle Intelligence. 2026. Quoted. — Link
“How 5 Colleges Are Approaching AI.” J. Bay. Inside Higher Ed. April 3, 2026. Quoted. — Link- “Integrating AI Across the Liberal Arts.” J. Bay. Inside Higher Ed. March 26, 2026. Quoted. — Link
“Doppelganger, le nouvel outil polémique pour trouver des sosies sur OnlyFans.” Radio France, L’œil de Julie. March 14, 2026. Quoted. — Link
“Doppelgänger, le moteur de recherche qui vous propose des modèles OnlyFans ressemblant à votre crush.” F. Montcorbier. Slate.fr. February 23, 2026. Quoted. — Link