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Faculty Affiliates – Current Students

Faculty Affiliates

Sheena Erete

Associate Professor

📍 School of Information

Jason Farnam

Professor of American Studies and Associate Dean of the Graduate School, American Studies

📍 Department of American Studies

Quint Gregory

Director, Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture, Art History and Archaeology

📍 Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture

Matthew Kirschenbaum

Distinguished University Professor, English

📍 Department of English

Hayim Lapin

Professor, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies; Professor, Classics; Professor, History

📍 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies

Alexis Lothian

Associate Professor, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

📍 Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Matthew T. Miller

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Director and Principal Investigator of PersDig@UMD, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies; Assistant Professor, Persian Literature & Digital Humanities, Persian

📍 Roshan Institute for Persian Studies

Marisa Parham

Director, African American Digital Humanities project, Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, and Professor of English.

📍 Department of English

Damien Smith Pfister

Associate Professor of Communication and Interim Director of the Digital Studies Certificate Program.

📍 Department of Classics

Catherine Knight Steele

Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the Black Communication and Technology Lab.

📍 Department of Communication

Victoria Van Hyning

Assistant Professor of Library Innovation; Director, Center for Archival Futures (CAFe); College of Information Studies (iSchool).

📍 School of Information

Jessica Vitak

Associate Professor; Faculty Director, PhD in Information Studies; Director of the HCIL.

📍 School of Information

Rianna Walcott

Assistant Professor of Communication, Associate Director of the Black Communication and Technology (BCaT) Lab.

📍 Department of Communications

Current Students

Himadri Agarwal - English

Brice Bowrey - History

Jin Choi - Communication

Caitlin Christian-Lamb - College of Information Studies

Alex Glass - Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership

Nery González - Spanish

Matré Grant - Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS)

Alexandra Grimm - Communication

Alisa Hardy - Communication

Dani Hernández - Spanish

Jodi Friedman - Journalism

Victoria Herrera Arvay - Spanish

Diana Proenza - English

Sean Rhodes - Communication

Matthew Salzano - Communication

Mehdy Sedaghat Payam - Comparative Literature

Alex Thomas - Communication

Phil Tompkins - College of Information Studies