Organizers + Presenters
Program Organizers
Dr. Joanna Brooks
Associate Vice President for Faculty Advancement and Student Success, Co-Founder of the Digital Humanities Initiative, SDSU
Dr. Pam Lach
Digital Humanities Librarian, Director of the Digital Humanities Center & Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Initiative, SDSU
Plenary Speakers
Barry Lam is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Vassar College. He went to UC Irvine as an undergraduate, and received his PhD in Philosophy at Princeton University. His early career research was in epistemology and in the philosophy of language. In recent years, he has become attracted to philosophy that is connected to moral, political, or public policy issues. In addition to publishing in peer-reviewed journals directed toward other academics, he aims to disseminate his thinking about these issues in narrative audio form for a wider audience. He executive produces and hosts Hi-Phi Nation, a show about philosophy that turns stories into ideas. He has also started work in philanthropy as Associate Director of the Marc Sanders Foundation.
Hannah McGregor is an Assistant Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, where her research primarily focuses on podcasting as a form of non-traditional scholarly communication. She is the co-director of the Amplify Podcast Network, Canada's first peer-reviewed podcast network, and the creator of its pilot podcast, Secret Feminist Agenda. She currently hosts The SpokenWeb Podcast, a collaborative project of the SpokenWeb research team, and co-hosts Witch, Please, a feminist re-reading of the Harry Potter series through the lens of critical theory.
Tech Team and Instructors
Lead instructor and cohort tech team support: Pam Lach (she/her) is the Digital Humanities Librarian at San Diego State University. She is Director of the Library’s Digital Humanities Center and Co-Director of SDSU’s Digital Humanities Initiative. Pam’s work explores how new and emerging technologies transform humanistic scholarship and pedagogy. Her areas of interest include data visualization, information retrieval, user experience design, digital pedagogy, surveillance, critical librarianship, and anti-racist digital humanities. She has a PhD in U.S. Cultural History with an emphasis on gender and film history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a MS in Information Science from UNC’s School of Information and Library Science.
Recording/sound engineer: Patrick Flanigan (he/him) is the Lead Cataloging Specialist at the SDSU Library where he catalogs materials in both print and digital formats. His focus is on improving the discovery of library resources and collections. Patrick is an alumnus of SDSU and has spent the last 30 years combining his passion for music with his enjoyment of working in libraries. As a student working at the SDSU Library he was in many bands and frequently recorded his musical efforts both in professional and home studios. After graduating from SDSU he worked as a cataloger at National University by day and pursued his music career by night, eventually leaving the library world to work in the booming internet industry. Years later with the emergence of digital resources and technology, he received a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Missouri with a focus on digital resources. He continues to record music today for his project Punk Rock Drum Machine, using an 8 track digital recorder with analog controls and mastering the WAV files using Audacity. He supports Arsenal Football Club.
Cohort tech team support: Marisol Fila (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation explores how Black female and male writers, artists and intellectuals in the twenty-first century Black presses of Buenos Aires, Argentina, São Paulo, Brazil, and Lisbon, Portugal use digital and print media to navigate distinct articulations between diasporic and national Black identities. Marisol is also interested in Critical Pedagogy and Public Digital Humanities and in the ways in which technology and digital media can serve as a tool to share her research and work to a wider audience, but also to develop digital projects in partnership with Afro-descendant organizations across Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries. Marisol is the 2021-2022 A. Bartlett Giamatti Graduate Fellow for the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and a 2021-2022 Imagining America PAGE Fellow.
Cohort tech team support: Stephanie Narrow (she/her) is a history PhD Candidate at the University of California, Irvine. She is currently a fellow at the British Library’s Eccles Centre for American Studies, as well as a Career Diversity Fellow for the American Historical Association. An avid DH scholar with a public history background, Stephanie's most recent DH project is the Krieger Hall Chronicles podcast. She was part of the first cohort of graduate students to participate in the National Humanities Center/SDSU podcast institute (summer 2019). @HER_storian
Cohort tech team support: Cassie Tanks (she/her) is an MSLS graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Carolina Academic Library Association fellow. Currently she is leading the UNC Story Archive- a program that collects and preserves audio recordings of UNC students and alumni from historically underrepresented and silenced communities. She is also a research assistant for the digital humanities project Apartheid Heritage(s) at Northeastern University. Her interests focus on participatory metadata, intersectionality in the archives, transnational Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 20th century, and critical digital humanities. Cassie’s first job doing community outreach and dance instruction at a recreation center has profoundly impacted her to this day.