The Communication team advises on ADHO’s overall communications strategies and manages public communications channels via the ADHO website, social media, and related email lists. They also provide guidance on how to improve its web site, social media presence, and visibility as an inclusive, diverse organization.
Communications Officers
- Communications Officer: Nadezhda Povroznik is currently a Research Associate at the Humanities Data Science and Methodology (HDSM) in the Institute for History at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Her areas of interest include Digital Humanities, Digital History, and Virtual Museology. She brings over 15 years of relevant academic experience, encompassing international collaborations and publications. Nadezhda Povroznik is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Digital History, which is issued by C2DH at the University of Luxembourg and published by De Gruyter. Additionally, she serves as a guest editor for the Journal of Internet Histories, particularly for the Special Issue on Museums on the Web. From 2021 to 2023, she was a co-chair of CenterNet, an international network of Digital Humanities Centers affiliated with ADHO.
ADHO Communications Fellows
ADHO’s Communications Fellowship is offered annually for 2 students, early career scholars, and/or practioners in digital humanities. Fellows work several hours per week to promote information shared by ADHO, its COs, Journals, and SIGs. They also take on special projects as identified by the COB and/or EB.
2024:
- Lavanya Dahiya is a sociologist by training working at the intersections of society and technology. She completed her master’s in Digital Humanities from the Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India. Her research interests are digital sociology, interrogating dominant technologies, gender studies, digital cultures and new media, and DH pedagogy. Her previous research includes understanding how misogyny and hindutva ideology are operationalised via new media platforms, unpacking socio-technical aspects of digital dating platforms using a mixed-methods approach and deeping her knowledge on the politics and functionalities of social media platforms and digital cultures at large. She has also presented her research at multiple international conferences, like ACH’s DHUNBOUND 2022, MIT, Data and Society, and HASTAC.Currently, she is working as a Communication manager at a not-for-profit organization. She is also the communications and outreach editor at DHQ and an active member of DHARTI. She, along with her colleagues, is a proud joint recipient of the prestigious Paul Fortier Prize at the DH2023 annual conference of ADHO held at the University of Graz, Austria for their work on the current Digital Humanities curricula and pedagogical trends in Indian higher education institutions. They are also the first team [also all-women] from the Global South to ever be awarded this prize.
- Giulia Taurino, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Khoury College of Computer Sciences (Northeastern University). Her research focuses on forms of content organization on online platforms and digital archives, cultural implications of algorithmic technologies, and applications of AI in the arts, cultural heritage and museum sectors. She is currently a member of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, where she works on AI toolkits for media and cultural studies (projects: Boston Globe Archive Project), and of the AI & Arts interest group at The Alan Turing Institute. Past affiliations include Brown University’s Virtual Humanities Lab, metaLAB (at) Harvard, MIT Data + Feminism Lab. From 2019 to 2022, she developed a series of computational art projects, exploring the intersection between AI and curatorial practices in museums. Previous residencies and awards include MITACS Award, FIAT/IFTA Grant, S+T+Arts x Nesta Italia – City of the Future, Unreal Engine x Zú Atrium – Creative Showcase. Giulia holds a doctoral degree in Media Studies and Visual Arts from the University of Bologna and the University of Montreal. She has served as a Director of Research and Innovation at AI Impact Alliance, where she worked on project design and implementation research for AI ethics and sustainable development goals. On the side, she works as editor for The Programming Historian and VIEW Journal
2023 & 2024:
- Alexandra Núñez (since January 2023) is currently a PhD candidate in German linguistics at the Technical University of Darmstadt and has a wide range of research interests. Her doctoral thesis is in the field of critical discourse analysis and focuses on the racial hygiene discourse in Germany around 1900. As part of an interdisciplinary DH team and funded by the Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF), she has conducted DH research on automatic metaphor detection and classification in historical and contemporary texts. In addition to research in cognitive linguistics and digital humanities, she also conducts research in medical education and assessment research. At the German Institute for State Examinations in Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Psychotherapy (IMPP), she was a research coordinator in the Department of Psychotherapy responsible for the piloting, testing and implementation of new practical high-stakes assessments. Previously she worked as a principal research associate in the Department of Assessment and Information Technology and was responsible for several software development projects which included the use of natural language processing and medical knowledge bases. She holds a Magistra Artium (M.A.) (eq. BA+MA) degree in Art History and German Philology, is a certified AI product manager, and also works as a scientific reviewer, advisory board member and AI consultant.
- Isabel Rocío Rentería Galicia (January-April 2023)
- Damir Padieu (June 2023-June 2024) is a master’s student in Digital Humanities with a bachelor’s degree in Chinese studies. He is currently completing his master’s degree at Trier University and working as a research assistant at Trier Center for Digital Humanities. His DH research interests include network analysis, linked open data and TEI. He is passionate about open source principles and self-hosting.
2021 & 2022:
- Erdal Ayan is currently a PhD candidate in the department of English and American Studies at University of Kassel and a part-time master student in the Web Science Master Program at TH-Koeln. He is holding two bachelors (English Language and Literature and Sociology) and two masters degrees (English Language Teaching (ELT) & Computer Education and Instructional Technologies). He has got a broad research interest and/but his main focus is on data/text mining, sentiment analysis (opinion mining), topic modeling, network analysis (community detection), web development. He worked as teacher and lecturer for English before moving to Germany in 2017. He completed his voluntary internship in the Computing Centre at Philipps University Marburg between 2018 and 2019. Mr. Ayan worked as an academic assistant at Herder Institute from 2017 to 2020. He was part of REDE Project as an IT staff in Sprachatlas at Philipps University Marburg until June, 2021. He is the founder of Digital Humanities Turkey.
- Anna Sofia Lippolis is a Research Fellow at Italy’s National Research Council (CNR)’s Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC). After her BA in Philosophy, she received her MA in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge at the University of Bologna with a project on the quantitative analysis and visualization of authorial corrections. Her interests include cultural analytics, quantitative approaches in literature studies and semantic technologies. Before joining ADHO communications team, she took part in organising two conference cycles about the present and future of Digital Humanities, ‘Digital WHOmanities’.
2020:
- Mariana Zorkina is a PhD student at the Asien-Orient-Institut at the Zurich University. She received her MA in Asian and African Cultures at the St. Petersburg State University with a project on reflection of Daoism in Chinese literature. Currently she studies Tang dynasty “poems on things” and is applying computational methods to the study of language patterns in poetry. She is actively promoting quantitative approaches in literature studies, has introduced courses on Digital Humanities to two universities and has given several public talks on the topic. Before joining ADHO communications team, she acted as editor-in-chief in a Russian online media on Digital Humanities, ‘Sysblok’.
- Nabeel Siddiqui is an Assistant Professor of Communications at Susquehanna University. His research focuses on the digital humanities, the history of information science, communications, new media rhetoric, and science and technology studies. Currently, he is completing a manuscript entitled Byting Out the Public: Personal Computers and the Private Sphere, which analyzes the personal computer’s domestication during the 1970s and 1980s.
2017-18:
- Randa El-Khatib
- Anna-Maria Sichani
2016-17:
- S.E. Hackney
- Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja
2015-16:
- Candice Lanius
- Pietro Santachiara
2014-15:
- Hannah Jacobs
- Jesica Jayd Lewis