HASTAC gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Graduate Center CUNY. Without this support, and the labor and leadership of faculty and doctoral students in the Futures Initiative, HASTAC would not exist. We also thank everyone at the Knowledge Commons for hosting and overseeing the HASTAC Commons online network.

HASTAC’s Administrative Team

Futures Initiative, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Cathy N. Davidson, HASTAC CoFounder and CoDirector
Shelly Eversley, HASTAC CoDirector
Adashima Oyo, Director of Programs and Administration (on leave Fall 2024)
Roderick Hurley, Interim Director of Programs and Administration (Fall 2024)
Tysean Bucknor, HASTAC Scholars Co-Director and Futures Initiative Fellow (GC CUNY)
Tatiana Bertolucci Peixoto, HASTAC Scholars Co-Director and Futures Initiative Fellow (GC CUNY)

HASTAC Interdisciplinary Area Directors
Jade E. Davis, Director of Digital Learning Impact and Libraries (University of Iowa)
Kevin Healey, Director of Experimental Pedagogies and Arts-Based Research (University of New Hampshire)

Executive Board, Steering Committee, and Council of Advisors

HASTAC is guided by a dynamic Executive Board as well as a Steering Committee consisting of innovators from a variety of disciplines. These colleagues inspire HASTAC intellectually, diversify its initiatives, provide a foundation for the dynamic HASTAC Scholars community, and support events and initiatives including the annual HASTAC conference. We also retain a Council of Advisors, past members of the Steering Committee who have agreed to stay on as occasional consultants as needed.

This page lists our current leaders as well as previous leadership.

Executive Board

Anne Balsamo, Arts and Humanities Distinguished University Chair, University of Texas at Dallas
Simone Browne, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Chamberlain, Associate Dean of Libraries, Research & Digital Strategies, Dartmouth College
Cathy N. Davidson, HASTAC Co-Founder and Co-Director; Distinguished Professor of English and Founding Director of the Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center, CUNY
Caitlin Fisher, Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture; Director, Augmented Reality Lab; Associate Professor of Film, York University
David Theo Goldberg, HASTAC Co-Founder; Director Emeritus of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine
Daniel Herwitz, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, History of Art, University of Michigan
Tara McPherson, Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California
Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Cornell University
Jentery Sayers, Associate Professor, English, University of Victoria
Jacqueline Wernimont, HASTAC Co-Director (2016-2024); Distinguished Chair, Digital Humanities and Social Engagement; Associate Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Kathleen Woodward, Professor of English, Director of the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington

Steering Committee

Moya Bailey, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
Fiona Barnett, Director Emerita of HASTAC Scholars, Independent Scholar
Julian Chambliss, Professor of English; Val Berryman Curator of History at the MSU Museum at Michigan State University
Anita Say Chan, Associate Professor of Communication, Department of Media and Cinema Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marcia Chatelain, Professor of History and African American Studies, Georgetown University
The Colored Conventions Project Team, represented by Jim Casey, Assistant Research Professor of African American Studies at Penn State University, and Gabrielle Foreman, Professor of English, African American Studies and History at Penn State University and Paterno Chair in Liberal Arts; founding co-director of the Center for Black Digital Research
Anne Cong-Huyen, Director, Digital Scholarship, Columbia University Libraries
Tressie McMillan Cottom, UNC School of Information and Library Science; Senior Faculty Researcher, Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
T.L. Cowan, Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Digital Media Cultures) in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media (UTSC; Faculty of Information (iSchool) at the University of Toronto
Alex Gil, Senior Lecturer II & Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities, Yale University
Sheryl Grant, Director of Research, Community Success Institute
Stefka Hristova, Associate Professor of Digital Media, Michigan Technological University and Director of the Institute for Policy, Ethics, and Culture
Bruce Janz, Professor of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida
Purdom Lindblad, Georgetown University
Marisa Parham, Professor of English and Digital Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park; Director of African American Digital Humanities initiative (AADHUM); Associate Director for the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
Miriam Posner, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Studies,University of California, Los Angeles
Karyn Recollet, Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto
Dean Rehberger, Director of MATRIX Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Michigan State University
Anastasia Salter, Assistant Professor of Digital Media, University of Central Florida
Danica Savonick, Assistant Professor of English, SUNY Cortland
Michael Simeone, Director of Data Science and Analytics for ASU Libraries, Arizona State University
Victoria Szabo, Associate Research Professor, Co-Director, PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge, Duke University
T.L. Taylor, Professor of Comparative Media Studies and Director of the MIT Game Lab, MIT
Stephanie E. Vasko, Senior UX Researcher, Office of Research in the College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University
Kalle Westerling, Digital Humanities Research Software Engineer with Living with Machines, a collaboration between the British Library, the Alan Turing Institute
Zac Zimmer, Associate Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

Council of Advisors

Rachel Arteaga, Assistant Director, Simpson Center for the Humanities and Associate Program Director, Reimagining the Humanities Ph.D. and Reaching New Publics, University of Washington
Ruzena Bajcsy, Director Emerita of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at the University of California, Berkeley
John Seely Brown, Visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost at University of Southern California (USC), and Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge
Dixie Ching, Ph.D. Student, Educational Communication and Technology, New York University
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Professor and chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University
Allison Clark, Founder and Director of AMedia1.com, LLC
Dan Cohen, Executive Director, Digital Public Library of America
Sharon Daniel, Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Jade Davis, HASTAC Scholars representative from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jorge Duran, Chief of Office of Science, Technology, and Innovation; Department of Economic Development, Trade, and Tourism; Organization of American States (OAS)
Mary Flanagan, Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professorship in Digital Humanities, Dartmouth College
Matt Gold, Director, CUNY Academic Commons; Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center
Geraldine Heng, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Director of Medieval Studies, and Perceval Fellow in Medieval Culture at the University of Texas at Austin
Adeline Koh, Director of the Digital Humanities Center and Associate Professor of Literature, Stockton College
Elizabeth LaPensée, Narrative Director at Twin Suns
Elizabeth Losh, Director of Academic Programs, Sixth College, University of California, San Diego
Tom MacCalla, Executive Director, National University Community Research Institute (NUCRI) and University Vice President, National University
Richard Marciano, Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, Director, Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC)
Mark C. Marino, Associate Professor of Writing, University of Southern California
Terry Mills, Dean of Research, Morehouse College
Nick Montfort, Assistant Professor of Digital Media, Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lisa Nakamura, Professor of American Cultures and Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress
Mark Olson, Assistant Professor of Visual & Media Studies, Duke University and former HASTAC Director of New Media
David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor and Professor and Director of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Joyce Rudinsky, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), Associate Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC-CH, and Domain Scientist for Digital Arts and Humanities at Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI).
Nishant Shah, Director – Research, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, and Knowledge Partner, Hivos, Netherlands
Patrik Svensson, Professor in the Humanities and Information Technology and Director of HUMlab, Umeå University
Brendesha Tynes, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Southern California
S. Craig Watkins, Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Sociology, and the Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Wouters, Director of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies and professor of Scientometrics at Leiden University

Archive: Past Leadership

2013-2014 Leaders

Executive Board:
Anne Balsamo, Dean, School of Media Studies, New School of Public Engagement, The New School
Cathy Davidson, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, and Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University
Kevin Franklin, Executive Director, Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (ICHASS), Research Professor Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and Professor of Comparative Literature, Anthropology, and Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine
Daniel Herwitz, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, History of Art, University of Michigan
Julie Thompson Klein, Professor of Humanities in the English Department and Faculty Fellow for Interdiscipinary Development in the Division of Research, Wayne State University
Tara McPherson, Editor, Vectors, and Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California
Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Director of the Society for the Humanities, Curator of The Rose Goldsen Archive for New Media Art, Cornell University
Kathleen Woodward, Professor of English, Director of the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington

Steering Committee:
Simone Browne (’08 and renewed in ’11), Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin
Dixie Ching (’10, renewed ’13), HASTAC Scholars representative from New York University (two-year term)
Daniel Chamberlain (’11), Director, Center for Digital Learning and Research, Occidental College
Jade Davis (’11), HASTAC Scholars representative from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (two-year term)
Jorge Duran (’13), Chief of Office of Science, Technology, and Innovation; Department of Economic Development, Trade, and Tourism; Organization of American States (OAS)
Caitlin Fisher (’10, renewed ’13), Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture; Director, Augmented Reality Lab; Associate Professor of Film, York University
Mary Flanagan (’11), Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professorship in Digital Humanities, Dartmouth College
Matt Gold (’13), Director, CUNY Academic Commons; Associate Professor, New York City College of Technology (English) and CUNY Graduate Center
Adeline Koh (’13), Director of the Digital Humanities Center and Associate Professor of Literature, Stockton College
Elizabeth Losh (’11), Director of Academic Programs, Sixth College, University of California, San Diego
Richard Marciano (’13), Professor, School of Information and Library Science and Affiliated Professor, American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill; Director, Sustainable Archives & Leveraging Technologies group (SALT)
Mark C. Marino (’13), Associate Professor of Writing, University of Southern California
Lisa Nakamura (’11), Professor of American Culures and Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Alondra Nelson (’13), Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
David Palumbo-Liu (’13), Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor and Professor and Director of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Joyce Rudinsky (’09, renewed ’12), Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), Associate Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC-CH, and Domain Scientist for Digital Arts and Humanities at Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI).
Jentery Sayers (’11), Assistant Professor, English, University of Victoria
Nishant Shah (’11), Director – Research, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, and Knowledge Partner, Hivos, Netherlands
S. Craig Watkins (’10, renewed ’13), Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Sociology, and the Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Council of Advisors:
Ruzena Bajcsy, Director Emerita of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at the University of California, Berkeley
John Seely Brown, Visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost at University of Southern California (USC), and Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Professor and chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University
Allison Clark, Founder and Director of AMedia1.com, LLC
Dan Cohen, the newly named Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America
Sharon Daniel, Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Geraldine Heng, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Director of Medieval Studies, and Perceval Fellow in Medieval Culture at the University of Texas at Austin
Tom MacCalla, Executive Director, National University Community Research Institute (NUCRI) and University Vice President, National University
Nick Montfort, Assistant Professor of Digital Media, Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mark Olson, Assistant Professor of Visual & Media Studies, Duke University and former HASTAC Director of New Media
Patrik Svensson, Professor in the Humanities and Information Technology and Director of HUMlab, Umeå University
Brendesha Tynes, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Southern California
Paul Wouters, Director of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies and professor of Scientometrics at Leiden University

2012-2013 Leaders

Steering Committee:
Simone Browne (’08 and renewed in ’11), Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin
Dixie Ching (’10), HASTAC Scholars representative from New York University (two-year term)
Daniel Chamberlain (’11), Director, Center for Digital Learning and Research, Occidental College
Jade Davis (’11), HASTAC Scholars representative from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (two-year term)
Caitlin Fisher (’10), Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture; Director, Augmented Reality Lab; Associate Professor of Film, York University
Mary Flanagan (’11), Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professorship in Digital Humanities, Dartmouth College
Elizabeth Losh (’11), Director of Academic Programs, Sixth College, University of California, San Diego
Lisa Nakamura (’11), Professor of American Culures and Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Joyce Rudinsky (’09, renewed ’12), Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), Associate Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC-CH, and Domain Scientist for Digital Arts and Humanities at Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI).
Jentery Sayers (’11), Assistant Professor, English, University of Victoria
Nishant Shah (’11), Director – Research, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, and Knowledge Partner, Hivos, Netherlands
Patrik Svensson (’10), ‘docent’ in the Humanities and Information Technology and Director of HUMlab, Umea University
S. Craig Watkins (’10), Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Sociology, and the Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Council of Advisors:
Ruzena Bajcsy, Director Emerita of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at the University of California, Berkeley
John Seely Brown, Visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost at University of Southern California (USC), and Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Professor and chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University
Allison Clark, Founder and Director of AMedia1.com, LLC
Dan Cohen, the newly named Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America
Sharon Daniel, Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Geraldine Heng, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Director of Medieval Studies, and Perceval Fellow in Medieval Culture at the University of Texas at Austin
Tom MacCalla, Executive Director, National University Community Research Institute (NUCRI) and University Vice President, National University
Nick Montfort, Assistant Professor of Digital Media, Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mark Olson, Assistant Professor of Visual & Media Studies, Duke University and former HASTAC Director of New Media
Brendesha Tynes, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Southern California
Paul Wouters, Director of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies and professor of Scientometrics at Leiden University

2011-2012 Leaders

Executive Board:
Anne Balsamo, Dean, School of Media Studies, New School of Public Engagement, The New School
Cathy Davidson, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, and Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University
Kevin Franklin, Executive Director, Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (ICHASS), Research Professor Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and Professor of Comparative Literature, Anthropology, and Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine
Daniel Herwitz, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, History of Art, University of Michigan
Julie Thompson Klein, Professor of Humanities in the English Department and Faculty Fellow for Interdiscipinary Development in the Division of Research, Wayne State University
Tara McPherson, Editor, Vectors, and Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California
Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Director of the Society for the Humanities, Curator of The Rose Goldsen Archive for New Media Art, Cornell University
Kathleen Woodward, Professor of English, Director of the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington

Steering Committee: (three-year terms, elected)
Simone Browne (’08 and renewed in ’11), Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin
Dixie Ching (’10), HASTAC Scholars representative from New York University (two-year term)
Daniel Chamberlain (’11), Director, Center for Digital Learning and Research, Occidental College
Dan Cohen (’09), Associate Professor of History and Art History, and Director, Roy Rosenzweig Center for New Media and History, George Mason University
Sharon Daniel (’09), Professor of Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Jade Davis (’11), HASTAC Scholars representative from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (two-year term)
Caitlin Fisher (’10), Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture; Director, Augmented Reality Lab; Associate Professor of Film, York University
Mary Flanagan (’11), Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professorship in Digital Humanities, Dartmouth College
Elizabeth Losh (’11), Director of Academic Programs, Sixth College, University of California, San Diego
Lisa Nakamura (’11), Professor of American Culures and Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Joyce Rudinsky (’09), Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), Associate Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC-CH, and Domain Scientist for Digital Arts and Humanities at Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI).
Jentery Sayers (’11), Assistant Professor, English, University of Victoria
Nishant Shah (’11), Director – Research, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, and Knowledge Partner, Hivos, Netherlands
Patrik Svensson (’10), ‘docent’ in the Humanities and Information Technology and Director of HUMlab, Umea University
S. Craig Watkins (’10), Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Sociology, and the Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Wouters (’09), Professor of Scientometrics; Director for the Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University

Council of Advisors:
Ruzena Bajcsy, Director Emerita of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at the University of California, Berkeley
John Seely Brown, Visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost at University of Southern California (USC), and Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Professor and chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University
Allison Clark, Founder and Director of AMedia1.com, LLC
Geraldine Heng, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Director of Medieval Studies, and Perceval Fellow in Medieval Culture at the University of Texas at Austin
Tom MacCalla, Executive Director, National University Community Research Institute (NUCRI) and University Vice President, National University
Nick Montfort, Assistant Professor of Digital Media, Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mark Olson, Assistant Professor of Visual & Media Studies, Duke University and former HASTAC Director of New Media
Brendesha Tynes, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Southern California

2010-2011 Leaders

Executive Board:
Anne Balsamo, Professor, Interactive Media and Gender Studies and Managing Director, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California
Cathy Davidson, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, and Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University
Kevin Franklin, Executive Director, Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (ICHASS), Research Professor Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and Professor of African-American Studies and of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine
Daniel Herwitz, Director of the Institute and Mary Fair Croushoure Professor
Julie Thompson Klein, Professor of Humanities in the English Department and and Faculty Fellow in the Office for Teaching and Learning at Wayne State University; Fall 2011 Mellon Fellow in Digital Humanities in the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan
Tara McPherson, Editor, Vectors, and Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California
Kathleen Woodward, Professor of English, Director of the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington

Steering Committee: (three-year terms, elected)
Simone Browne (’08), Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin
Dixie Ching (’10), HASTAC Scholars representative, from New York University (one-year term)
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (’08), Associate Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University
Dan Cohen (’09), Associate Professor of History and Art History, and Director, Center for New Media and History, George Mason University
Sharon Daniel (’09), Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Caitlin Fisher (’10), York University
Geraldine Heng (’08), Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Director of Medieval Studies, and Perceval Fellow in Medieval Culture at the University of Texas at Austin
Nick Montfort (’09), Assistant Professor of Digital Media, Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Timothy Murray (’08), Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Director of the Society for the Humanities, Curator of The Rose Goldsen Archive for New Media Art, Cornell University
Joyce Rudinsky (’09), Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), Associate Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC-CH, and Domain Scientist for Digital Arts and Humanities at Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI).
Patrik Svensson (’10), Umea University
Brendesha Tynes (’08), Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, Child Development Division, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
S. Craig Watkins (’10), University of Texas at Austin
Paul Wouters (’09), Professor of Knowledge Dynamics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Programme Leader, The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

2009-10 HASTAC Steering Committee

Ruzena Bajcsy, Director Emerita of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at the University of California, Berkeley
Anne Balsamo, Professor, Interactive Media and Gender Studies and Managing Director, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California
Simone Browne, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Associate Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University
Allison Clark, Founder and Director of AMedia1.com, LLC
Dan Cohen, Associate Professor of History and Art History, and Director, Center for New Media and History, George Mason University
Sharon Daniel, Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Cathy N. Davidson, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, and Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University
Kevin Franklin, Executive Director, Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (ICHASS), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and Professor of African-American Studies and of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine
Geraldine Heng, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Director of Medieval Studies, and Perceval Fellow in Medieval Culture at the University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Herwitz, Director and Mary Fair Croushore Professor of Humanities, University of Michigan
Julie Thompson Klein, Professor of Humanities in Interdisciplinary Studies, and Faculty Fellow in the Office of Teaching & Learning and Co-Director of the University Library Digital Media Project, Wayne State University
Thomas Maccalla, Executive Director, National University Community Research Institute (NUCRI) and University Vice President, National University
Tara McPherson, Editor, Vectors, and Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California
Nick Montfort, Assistant Professor of Digital Media, Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Director of the Society for the Humanities, Curator of The Rose Goldsen Archive for New Media Art, Cornell University
Mark Olson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Studies, Duke University and former HASTAC Director of New Media
Joyce Rudinsky, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), Associate Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC-CH, and Domain Scientist for Digital Arts and Humanities at Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI).
Jentery Sayers, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English, University of Washington
Brendesha Tynes, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, Child Development Division, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kathleen Woodward, Professor of English, Director of the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington
Paul Wouters, Professor of Knowledge Dynamics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Programme Leader, The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

2008-09 Steering Committee

Ruzena Bajcsy, Director Emerita of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at the University of California, Berkeley
Anne Balsamo, Professor, Interactive Media and Gender Studies and Managing Director, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California
Simone Browne, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Associate Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University
Allison Clark, Associate Director, Seedbed Initiative for Transdomain Creativity, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sharon Daniel, Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Cathy N. Davidson, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, and Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University
Kevin Franklin, Executive Director, Center for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (CHASS), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and Professor of African-American Studies and of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine
Geraldine Heng, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Director of Medieval Studies, and Perceval Fellow in Medieval Culture at the University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Herwitz, Director and Mary Fair Croushore Professor of Humanities, University of Michigan
Julie Thompson Klein, Professor of Humanities in Interdisciplinary Studies, and Faculty Fellow in the Office of Teaching & Learning and Co-Director of the University Library Digital Media Project, Wayne State University
Thomas Maccalla, Executive Director, National University Community Research Institute (NUCRI) and University Vice President, National University
Tara McPherson, Editor, Vectors, and Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California
Nick Montfort, Assistant Professor of Digital Media, Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Director of the Society for the Humanities, Curator of The Rose Goldsen Archive for New Media Art, Cornell University
Mark Olson, Director, New Media and Information Technologies, John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Duke University
Joyce Rudinsky, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UN-CH), Associate Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UN-CH, and Domain Scientist for Digital Arts and Humanities at Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI).
Douglas Thomas, Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
Brendesha Tynes, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, Child Development Division, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kathleen Woodward, Professor of English, Director of the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington

Leadership