Faculty & Staff


Kent Blansett
  • Interim Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
  • Langston Hughes Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies and US History


Former Staff

Sara Bishop, Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, Associate Director, Hall Center for the Humanities

Arienne M. Dwyer, Director of Research and Founding Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, Professor, Linguistic Anthropology

Kaylen Dwyer, Digital Media Specialist

Sylvia Fernández, Public and Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Hall Center for the Humanities

Bryce Heesacker, Hall Center for the Humanities Applied Summer Fellow

Élika Ortega, Post-Doctoral Researcher

Pam LeRow, Program Assistant

Philip Stinson, Interim Co-director of IDRH, Associate Professor of Classics

David Tamez, Graduate Research Assistant

Dhanashree Thorat, Postdoctoral Researcher

Clarisse Barbier, Program Assistant

Joshua McMullen, Program Assistant

Carolina Pardo, Program Assistant

Patrick Flor, Digital Humanities Instructor

DaMaris Hill, Program Assistant

Brendan Allen, Intern

Katie Sparks, Program Assistant

Former Advisory Board Members

Perry AlexanderInformation and Telecommunication Technology Center

Clarisse Barbier, PhD Candidate, Department of French and Italian

Jamene Brooks-Kieffer, KU Libraries

Tanya Clement, School of Information, University of Texas, Austin

Tamara Falicov, Associate Dean for Research, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Matthew Garret, KU Information Technology

Richard Godbeer, Hall Center for the Humanities

Matthew Gold, CUNY Graduate Center

Kip Haaheim, School of Music

Germaine Halegoua, Film and Media Studies

Anne D. Hedeman, History of Art

Jonathan Lamb, English

Andrew Lison, Postdoctoral Researcher, Hall Center for the Humanities

Matt Menzenski, PhD Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures

Joshua Miner, Film and Media Studies

Geoffrey Rockwell, Philosophy/Humanities Computing, University of Alberta 

Jeff Rydberg-Cox, Director of Classics & Ancient Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City

An Sasala, Graduate Student, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Greg Smith, KU Information Technology 

Kevin Smith, Dean of Libraries

Phil Stinson, Classics

Whitney Sperrazza, Postdoctoral Researcher, Hall Center for the Humanities

Doug Ward, School of Journalism