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current: digital humanities technology specialist @ nyu it & libraries
past: digital humanities developer @ columbia university libraries; post-baccalaureate technologist @ five college digital humanities

• Lab Participation
• HistoryLab: History as Data Science
  2017 – 2019
• xpMethod: Columbia's Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities
  2017 – 2019
• irlHumanities: Immersive Reality Lab for the Humanities
  2014 – present

• Committee Membership/Grant Advisory Roles
  Date
  Institution
• Archipelago Advisory Board
  2019 – present
  Metropolitan NY Library Council
• CollectionBuilder Advisory Committee
  2019 – present
  University of Idaho Libraries
• Strategic Directions: Digital Scholarship Steering Group
  2018
  Columbia University Libraries
• Digital Humanities Steering Committee
  2014 – 2017
  Five College Consortium

• Teaching and Talks
  Date
  Venue
• PANEL / User Friendly: The Future of DH Tools
  July 2022
  Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) 2021
• WORKSHOP / Minimal Computing: Nimble Projects for Shaping + Sharing Histories
  June 2021
  Digital Resources and Methods (DReAM) Lab @ University of Pennsylvania
• WORKSHOP / Minimal Computing: Nimble Projects for Shaping + Sharing Histories
  June 2019
  Digital Resources and Methods (DReAM) Lab @ University of Pennsylvania
• WORKSHOP / Research Computing with Python
  January 2019
  Foundations for Research Computing Bootcamp @ Columbia University
• TALK / Minimal Computing for Image Collections: The Case of Wax
  October 2018
  Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum
• WORKSHOP / Research Computing with Python
  August 2018
  Foundations for Research Computing Bootcamp @ Columbia University
• TALK / Wax: Minimal IIIF for Experiments, Exhibitions, and Pedagogy
  May 2018
  IIIF Conference @ Library of Congress
• WORKSHOP / Publishing Sites with GitHub Pages
  February 2018
  NYCDH Week @ Columbia University
• COURSE / P2P?: Democracy, Deregulation, and Discontents
  January 2015
  Hampshire College, sponsored by 5CollDH

• Recent Reads
  Author
• debt: the first 5,000 years
  david graeber
  
• the city we became
  n.k. jemisin
  
• the undying: pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care
  anne boyer
  
• the doomed city
  boris + arkady strugatsky
  
• the world goes on
  lászló krasznahorkai
  
• the island of dr moreau
  h.g. wells
  
• the antipeople
  sony labou tansi
  
• bobby fischer teaches chess
  bobby fischer
  
• duty free art: art in the age of planetary war
  hito steyerl
  
• critique of black reason
  achille mbembe
  
• hollow land: israel's architecture of occupation
  eyal weizman
  
• necropolitics
  achille mbembe
  
• the militarization of peace
  reza negarestani
  
• all of a twist
  reza negarestani
  
• babylon
  victor pelevin
  
• nuclear distaster in the urals
  zhores a. medvedev
• soviet science
  zhores a. medvedev
  
• in the shadows of the american century: the rise and decline of u.s. global power
  alfred w. mccoy
  
• the age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914–1991
  eric hobswam
  
• the curfew
  jesse ball
  
• how to start a fire and why
  jesse ball
  
• sleep, death's brother
  jesse ball
  
• roadside picnic
  boris + arkady strugatsky
  
• a collapse of horses
  brian evenson
  
• the arab apocalypse
  etel adnan
  
• the passion according to g.h.
  clarice lispector
  
• bloodcurdling tales of horror and the macabre
  h.p. lovecraft
  
• october
  china miéville
  
• omon ra
  victor pelevin
  
• in the dust of this planet
  eugene thacker
  
• the librarian
  mikhail elizarov
  
• the intuitionist
  colson whitehead
  
• cosmic pessimism
  eugene thacker
  
• death's end
  cixin liu
  
• 3 moments of an explosion
  china miéville
  
• conspiracy against the human race
  thomas ligotti
  
• stress and freedom
  peter sloterdijk
  
• flatland: a romance of many dimensions
  edwin abott
  
• fantomas versus the multinational vampires: an attainable utopia
  julio cortázar
  
• nietzsche apostle
  peter sloterdijk
  
• embassytown
  china miéville
  
• blood & guts in high school
  kathy acker
  
• crash
  j.g. ballard
  
• on ambivalence
  kenneth weisbrode
  
• from hell
  alan moore
  
• one human minute
  stanisław lem
  
• the city & the city
  china miéville
  
• the dark forest
  cixin liu
  
• this census taker
  china miéville
  
• three body problem
  cixin liu
  
• cybernetic hypothesis
  tiqqun
  
• this is not a program
  tiqqun
  
• introduction to civil war
  tiqqun
  
• to live and think like pigs
  gilles châtelet
  
• hard to be a god
  boris + arkady strugatsky
  
• cylonopedia: complicity with anonymous materials
  reza negarestani
  
• extrastatecraft: the power of infrastructure space
  keller easterling
• discourse networks, 1800/1900
  friedrich kittler
• the antelope wife
  louise erdrich