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Julia Flanders

Co-Director

Julia Flanders is a professor of the practice in English and the director of the Digital Scholarship Group and the Centers for Digital Scholarship in the Northeastern University Library. She also directs the Women Writers Project and serves as editor in chief of Digital Humanities Quarterly, an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal of digital humanities. Her apprenticeship in digital humanities began at the Women Writers Project in the early 1990s and continued with work on the development of digital humanities organizations such as the Text Encoding Initiative and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. She has served as chair of the TEI Consortium and as President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. She has also taught a wide range of workshops on text encoding and served as a consultant and advisor on numerous digital humanities projects. Her research interests focus on data modeling, textual scholarship, humanities data curation, and the politics of digital scholarly work. She is the co-editor, with Neil Fraistat, of The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship, and the co-editor, with Fotis Jannidis, of The Shape of Data in Digital Humanities: Modeling Texts and Text-based Resources (Routledge, 2019).

Dan Cohen

Co-Director

Dan Cohen is the Vice Provost for Information Collaboration, Dean of the Library, and Professor of History at Northeastern University. His work has focused on the impact of digital media and technology on all aspects of knowledge and learning, from the nature of libraries and their evolving resources, to twenty-first century research techniques and software tools, to the changing landscape of communication and publication. He has directed major initiatives that have helped to shape that future. Prior to his tenure at Northeastern, he was the founding Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America, which brought together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and made them freely available to the world. Before DPLA, Dan was a Professor of History in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. There he oversaw projects ranging from PressForward to the September 11 Digital Archive to the popular Zotero research tool. He also founded Digital Humanities Now, which highlights the best work in digital humanities.

Colleen Nugent McLean

Project Manager

Colleen Nugent McLean is a PhD candidate in World History at Northeastern University. She is also the Centers for Digital Scholarship Coordinator in Snell Library at Northeastern. She has graduate certificates in Digital Humanities, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Public History. She has worked for the Women Writers Project as the Interim Project Manager and the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science as the Principal Coordinator. Her research interests lie broadly in how the colonial relationship colors the modern interaction between the British state and their migrants from majority Muslim former colonies. Her dissertation uses digital methods, specifically word embedding models, to chart the construction of modern British anti-Muslim racism, specifically the idea that Islam is inherently ‘fanatical’ and ‘violent.’ She earned her BA in History and Political Science from Union College in 2016 and her MA in World History from Northeastern in 2019.

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