The Institute will be co-directed by: Todd Presner (UCLA, Chair, Digital Humanities Program, Professor of Germanic Languages; Founder and Director of the HyperCities platform), Diane Favro (UCLA, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design; Assistant Vice Chancellor of Research, past President of the Society of Architectural Historians, and Digital Humanities faculty), and Chris Johanson (UCLA, Assistant Professor of Classics and Digital Humanities, Co-Director of the Laboratory for Digital Cultural Heritage, and Associate Director of the Experiential Technologies Center).
Guest Lecturers:
• Janice Reiff is Associate Professor of History and Statistics at UCLA. Reiff has pioneered the use of digital technologies in history, teaching in NEH-sponsored summer institutes at the Newberry Library and with her Structuring the Past: The Use of Computers in History (1992). One of the editors of the Encyclopedia of Chicago, Reiff served as the lead editor on the online version of the Encyclopedia and has served as co-PI of HyperCities since 2007.
• Philip Ethington is Professor of History and Political Science at the University of Southern California and North American and Multimedia Editor of the journal Urban History (Cambridge University Press). He is co-PI of the HyperCities project and is currently completing a large-format graphic book and interactive online publication, Ghost Metropolis: Los Angeles, since 13,000 BP.
• Nancy Levinson is a founding editor of Harvard Design Magazine and since 2009 the editor of the multimedia, digital journal, Places, an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to urban history, architectural history, and design.
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Director of Scholarly Communication at the Modern Language Association and Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College (on leave) and author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy.
• Tara McPherson is Associate Professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and founding editor of the on-line journal, Vectors. She is co-Director of USC’s Center for Transformative Scholarship (with Philip Ethington).
• Kazys Varnelis is Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and Multimedia Editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.
• Mary Francis is Humanities Publisher + Music and Cinema Studies Editor at UC Press and is also involved in digital strategy for the Press.
Additional UCLA Participants:
• Yoh Kawano is Campus GIS Coordinator at UCLA’s Institute for Digital Research and Education and affiliated faculty with UCLA’s Digital Humanities Program.
• David Shepard is a doctoral candidate in UCLA’s English department and the technical lead of the HyperCities platform. He is also the lead developer for “Geo-scribe,” a Google-funded extension to HyperCities that links user-generated maps with Google books.
• Elaine Sullivan is adjunct Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Digital Humanities. She was the lead developer of the Digital Karnak project and has an extensive track-record of developing innovative geospatial humanities courses and research publications.
• Marta Brunner is subject specialist librarian and Head of Collections, Research, and Instructional Services at UCLA’s Charles E. Young Research Library. She is also on the steering group for the Open Humanities Press (http://openhumanitiespress.org) and will discuss the challenges of preservation, sustainability, standards, and open environments for digital humanities scholarship.
• Zoe Borovsky is Librarian for Digital Research and Scholarship at UCLA and Adjunct Professor of Scandinavian and Digital Humanities. She will present on analysis and visualization of complex corpora.