Ramaesh J. Bhagirat-Rivera is a Caribbean historian and Assistant Professor of Critical Mixed Race Studies in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University. His research focuses on the intersection of Asian and African diasporas in the Americas, race and racism, transnationalism, and cultural history. He is completing his book manuscript – Inventing Indigeneity: Performing Race and Nation in the Modern Caribbean, c. 1950-1980 – which analyzes how contested festivals were used to create national cohesion in racially divided Caribbean countries. His manuscript argues that the multiracial societies of Guyana and Trinidad looked to each other to construct shared visions of nationhood by inventing indigeneity through festival culture.

Katherine Bouman has worked as Senior Associate Director of the Binghamton University Scholars Program since 2014.  Her academic background and training is in anthropology and art history.  She received a BA from Vassar College and a MSEd in Museum Education from Bank Street College of Education in 2004.  She has worked at the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.  Her academic and professional areas of expertise in relation to museums and exhibitions include exhibition design, audience research, program assessment, ethnography, natural history collections and art historical curation.  Prior to working in museums, she also studied non-human primates in zoos conducting research on the cognitive development of spatial intelligence and language cognition in orangutans and gorillas at the Bronx Zoo and National Zoo.  She and her spouse also run a commercial apple orchard in Brackney, PA.  When she is not mothering her three children, she enjoys gardening, swimming, and any activity that does not involve temper-tantrums. 

Vanessa Cañete Jurado joined the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Binghamton University in 2021. Her research and teaching interests include Hispanic cultural production, audiovisual translation, transmedia fiction, adaptation studies, and discourse analysis. 

Zoraya Cruz-Bonilla has been an affiliate of Binghamton University for over 16 years. Currently, she works as a Data Research Analyst in the Division of Student Affairs. Many of her projects call upon extracting, manipulating, or collecting student-level data to uncover meaningful insights. Often, colleagues rely on her to transform large volumes of data into visual representations that are easier to interpret. For example, developing dynamic dashboards to demonstrate bus ridership patterns visually; designing infographics to communicate food pantry service impact, and finding creative solutions to make data more engaging.

In 2019, Zoraya was selected as a guest curator for the Binghamton University Libraries. For the exhibit, titled, “Contributions and Insights from the Museum of Cognitive Art,” she curated the works of Edward Tufte, David McCandless, and Giorgia Lupi which have influenced her approach to information storytelling. 

Liyang Dong is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in English at Binghamton University. Her focused areas of research include Asian American literary and cultural studies, Chinese diaspora, digital humanities, feminist theories, race theories, gender and sexuality studies, composition rhetorics and practice, and poetry. She has taught Asian American Literature and Cultural Productions at Lyceum of SUNY Binghamton, From Inquiry to Academic Writing at Binghamton University, English Composition I at Auburn University at Montgomery, and English Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Translation at universities in China. She is teaching Asian/American Women & Film in Spring 2023. She has published poems in Modern Language Studies, Filibuster, and has led multiple poetry workshops for the Mentor Now program with the NYS Greater Binghamton public schools. She is a Public Humanities New York Fellow in Fall 2022 - Spring 2023.

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the department of political science at Binghamton University. My research interests are in public policy and political economy, and causal inference. Specifically, I am working on a project in which I dig out the nexus of intra-part elites relations and the inter-governmental task sharing in the disaster management during Covid-19 pandemic. 

I am a first-generation college graduate from Western Pennsylvania. Prior to my time as a PhD student, I spent about eight years at Bucknell University as a Technology Support Specialist. These two roles have forced me to think seriously about the uses (and abuses) of technology. 

Caitlin Holton serves as the Digital Initiatives Assistant for Binghamton University Libraries, where she works on digitization, digital preservation and the Open Repository at Binghamton (The ORB). Caitlin holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Roger Williams University and a Master of Science in Book History and Material Culture from The University of Edinburgh. Her past projects and research have focused on a range of topics from the print history of children’s literature to archiving the creative work of incarcerated people in the United States. Her hope in attending the DHRI is to gain more skills that will elevate her work related to the creation and dissemination of digital collections and digital humanities projects. Motivated by storytelling and innovative thinking, Caitlin looks for opportunities to share information through accessible means.

Shruti Jain is a PhD student at SUNY Binghamton. She is interested in Enlightenment and the networks of relationalities it enables and obstructs between caste and race in the global eighteenth-century. She is also the co-host and co-producer of the podcast “Immigrants Wake America”, which helps her explore the role that podcasts play in digital archiving in the Eighteenth century and beyond.

Yue Liang is a Ph.D candidate in History Department at Binghamton University. Her research interests include modern East Asia, environmental history, history of science, technology, and medicine.

Yijun Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Translation Research and Instruction Program at Binghamton University. Her research focuses on the circulation of science fiction, both into and from Chinese, and the critical role of the translator in the historical development of Chinese science fiction as well as the building of SF communities in more profound ways. 

Grace Miller is a PhD student in English, General Literature, and Rhetoric with graduate certificates in GMAP and AAAS. Prior to starting her PhD, Grace received her MA in Comparative Literature at SUNY Binghamton. Her research focuses around the creation of historical narrative, US imperialism, American Pluralism, 21st Century fiction, and trauma studies. 

Giovanna Montenegro, PhD, is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program at Binghamton University. A former BFA in Photography,  she is an advocate for public-facing digital humanities projects and is the former co-PI of Broadcasting World Literature podcast project. A scholar of colonial Latin America, she has published  German Conquistadors in Venezuela:  The Welsers’ Colony, Racialized Capitalism, and Cultural Memory with the University of Notre Dame Press (2022).  She is currently working on a second book project that considers participatory mapping projects of Saamaka maroons and indigenous peoples in Guiana Shield countries. Her research has been supported by a number of external fellowships including Fulbright Scholar Program, the Newberry Library, the Herzog August Bibliothek, the Omohundro Institute, and the American Association of University Women.

Dr. Skye Naslund is a geographer whose research examines geographic imaginaries of health and disease and how they impact health communication and community-formation, particularly across digital space.  Skye was hired as an adjunct lecturer in the Geography Department at SUNY Binghamton in March 2023 where she teaches classes related to population and health geography.  She earned her PhD in Geography in 2019 from the University of Washington and has taught at both the University of Washington and Cornish College of the Arts on topics such as cartography and GIS, health geography, geodemographics, and globalization.  In her free time, Skye enjoys sailing, gardening, and going on walks with her dog, Mawson.  

Jerome Nenger is an accomplished Lawyer from Nigeria. He was called to the Nigerian bar in 2007. Jerome obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Benue State University Makurdi, a Master of Laws (LLM) from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, and another Master of Laws (LLM) from University at Buffalo. He has commendable research and analytical skills in his legal training and have utilized them to practice law in Nigeria and teach law in several universities in East Africa including Uganda and Tanzania. With several years of law practice in civil and criminal litigation and collective experience as a Law Lecturer, he has successfully taught various law courses including local and international courses. His love for interdisciplinary work has inspired him to embark on an interdisciplinary PhD in Community Research and Action at Binghamton University and is interested in the interplay of climate change, climate justice and human rights. 

Amanda is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History Department. She studies colonialism, political economy, and the everyday economic life in colonial Latin America. Her dissertation studies credit in New Granada in the eighteenth century and explores how credit and other financial transactions shaped the everyday economic life and power dynamics between elites and non-elites. She is interested in using Digital Humanities methods to explore the social and spatial dynamics of credit in colonial Latin America. . 

Matthew O'Ryan is a Senior Academic Advisor in Harpur Advising. He became interested in the digital humanities after the proliferation of the Digital and Data Studies minor in Harpur College. While he is not an active participant in any research currently, he is hoping that the DHRI will give him the tools to manage data within Harpur College, so we can alter our services to best suit the needs of the Harpur College community.

I am a trained natural and social scientist with expertise in dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH). My research encompasses my teaching in its emphasis on the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus in the Anthropocene as a universal point of introduction to the interdisciplinary nature. I wish to engage through the DHRI on creating opportunities for our student to develop meaningful connections to society around them while also addressing planetary challenges and managing diverse resources by creating innovative solutions. I have a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from Cornell University and have been recognized several times for excellence in teaching award and excellence award for innovative teaching through the provost excellence teaching award from Rutgers University. Additionally, I have been recognized with an award for my excellence in teaching, character, service, and advocacy for belonging across traditionally underrepresented populations and first-generation students enrolled in instructional program(s) focused on environment and biology.

Hello, I'm Anne, the User Experience Coordinator at Binghamton University Libraries. I have a hybrid background in tech, visual arts, communications, and academia. After receiving my PhD in Linguistics from the University of Delaware, I worked as a designer and communications specialist in e-commerce, the video game industry, and the nonprofit sector. Currently at the Libraries, I am collaborating with staff and faculty to improve the usability and user experience of the Libraries' digital platforms. I have a BA in Linguistics from Stony Brook University and a BFA in Interaction Design from CUNY Queens College. My hobbies include arts & crafts, Arduino hacking, and studying Japanese. I have an embarrassing love for romance visual novels and I run a questionably legal Etsy shop on the side.

Xinyuan Qiu is currently a PhD candidate in the English department. Her research interests include body and sentimentality in eighteenth-century British fiction, book history, medievalism in modern literature, and gender studies. Her current project focuses on embodied sentimental "truths" in eighteenth-century British novels. She takes an interdisciplinary approach that studies literary texts and visual arts comparatively. Pronouns: she/her

Timur Saitov is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. His interests include but are not limited to the study of refugees, migration, identity formation, multicultural coexistence in empires and nation states, history of the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. His dissertation title is Russian Exiles in post-WWI Istanbul: Modern Refugees and the Transition from Ottoman Imperial to Turkish Republican Rule.  He earned an M.A. degree in History from Binghamton University, and a B.A. degree in Modern Middle Eastern and North African History & Political Sciences from Tel Aviv University. He frequently presents his findings in national and international conferences and published two articles: Istanbul – Constantinople – Tsargrad: The First Capital of Russian Emigration and Constructing a Refugee Through Producing a Refugee Space: Russian Migrants in Occupied Istanbul (1919-1922).

Ethan Sims is a Lecturer in the Spanish Division of the Department of Romance Languages here at Binghamton University. His research focuses on language contact and change in the Spanish-speaking world, with a specific focus on non-traditional sites of language contact, computer-mediated communication, and discourse analysis. His interests also extend to cultural studies and the broader intersection between language and culture.

Ryan Stears is a doctoral candidate in English and has accumulated a wide variety of teaching experience. He has served as a teaching assistant for Shakespeare, Globalization and Literary Culture, and British Literature II. Stears was also an instructor for From Inquiry to Academic Writing in 2019, Let’s Talk About K-pop! for five consecutive Winter/Summer sessions beginning in 2021 and, most recently, Early American Literature to 1865, which he designed himself. He endeavors to guide his students to think critically about literature and its relationship to political and cultural history, so that they learn to question the why rather than the what. In 2022, he was awarded the Alfred Bendixen Prize for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student in English. In 2023, he was awarded the Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Kaushik Tekur is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of English, Binghamton University (SUNY). His research interest lies in studying the intersections of the long 18th century, its literary forms, and the British Empire’s evolving policing and surveillance practices. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Keats-Shelley Review, and The LA Review of Books

I am a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Binghamton University. My research focuses on the intertwined histories of slavery, capitalism, and settler colonialism in what is now Ontario, Quebec, and Upstate New York from roughly 1763-1820. 

Wendy Wall is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Her publications include her award-winning book, Inventing the "American Way": The Politics of Consensus from the New to the Civil Rights Movement, as well as essays on topics ranging from federal Indian policy to cultural diplomacy to civil religion. Her current research focuses in two areas: neo-Malthusianism and postwar politics of immigration reform, and the long-term social and political reverberations of the 1980s farm crisis.  In 2023-24, Professor Wall is introducing a course, "Mapping American Prejudice," that will examine the changing parameters of racial, religious, and ethnic prejudice across time by focusing on Broome County. The course will also explore the ways that private actions and public policy embed discrimination in the landscape even after overt expressions of intolerance fade.

I am a PhD English Literature (course work complete) student at Binghamton University. I am interested in Digital Humanities, and Indigenous, Postcolonial and Environmental Literature. I am working on a website archiving micro-histories of  re-migrating Pakistani immigrants from NYC to the Broome County Area. I have also translated a novel Zeenat from Sindhi to English published by Sindh University, Pakistan.