Lauren Klein | Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Digital Humanities

Following her public lecture as part of the Digital Horizons series, Klein will offer a short overview of the Data by Design project followed by a Q&A session. Additional members of the Data by Design project team will join via Zoom.
 

About the Speaker

Lauren Klein is Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Professor in the departments of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English at Emory University. She also directs the Digital Humanities Lab there. Before moving to Emory, she taught in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech.

Klein works at the intersection of data science, AI, and the humanities, with an emphasis on research questions of gender and race. She has designed platforms for exploring the contents of historical newspapers, modeled the invisible labor of women abolitionists, and recreated forgotten visualization schemes with fabric and addressable LEDs. She is the author of An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and, with Catherine D’Ignazio, Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020), which was named one of the “must-read books for Spring 2020” by WIRED magazine. With Matthew K. Gold, she edits Debates in the Digital Humanities, a hybrid print-digital publication stream that explores debates in the field as they emerge.

She is currently completing a digital project, Data by Design: A History in Five Charts, forthcoming from the MIT Press, and envisioning the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network with colleagues at Clark Atlanta and Georgia Tech.  

This event is open to all Stanford affiliates and to others by invitation. Please note that space is limited. Contact SHC Events Manager Eric Ortiz (erortiz [at] stanford.edu (erortiz[at]stanford[dot]edu)) with any questions.