Amy Gay is the Assistant Head of Digital Initiatives for Digital Scholarship in the Libraries, where she provides consultations and instruction, and develops resource materials on digital and computational methods that are of interest to the campus community. She manages the pilot Digital Scholarship Center and the Open Repository @ Binghamton (the ORB). She is also the Director of the Binghamton Codes! Program. Her research interests include digital literacy, computational literacy, digital pedagogy, primary source literacy, and methods for successful self-learning. To learn more about digital scholarship at the Libraries, visit https://www.binghamton.edu/libraries/services/digital-scholarship/

Graduate Assistant

Kira Moodliar is a recent graduate of the MS Data Analytics program at Binghamton University's School of Management. They specialize in spatial analytics with a focus towards environmental health and the built environment. Kira is also an open data enthusiast and has engaged in transdisciplinary approaches to human health questions.

Amanda Ortiz is a PhD student in History at Binghamton University. Her research focuses on colonial Latin American social and economic history. Since her studies in Economics in Colombia, she has been interested in exploring data-driven projects from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective. At Binghamton University, she expanded her skills in the Digital Humanities in the Historical GIS graduate class led by Professor Bradley Skopyk and at the first Digital Humanities Research Institute in 2019 led by Amy Gay and Nancy Um.

Brad Skopyk is Associate Professor of History at Binghamton University, focusing on colonial Mexican environmental and spatial history. Currently, he is working on the Ecology of Crisis project, a historical and soon-to-be crowdsourced GIS database of 12,000+ reports of crisis events in colonial Mexico. In 2019, he spearheaded the Spatial Humanities Working Group, an active and growing collective of scholars at Binghamton that seeks to foster and support spatial humanities digital scholarship on campus.

Nancy Um is Professor of Art History and Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Inclusion at Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, Binghamton University. Her research explores the Islamic world from the perspective of the coast, with a focus on material, visual, and built culture on the Arabian Peninsula and around the rims of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. She has led workshops on various topics related to digital art history, such as data visualization for humanists, approaches to digital mapping, and issues in digital publishing. For more information, visit her website: http://nancyum.com