Alison Langmead – Principal Investigator
Alison Langmead holds a joint faculty appointment between the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. She teaches and researches in the field of the digital humanities, focusing especially on applying digital methods mindfully within the context of visual and material culture studies.
Alison serves as the Director of the Visual Media Workshop, the mission of which is to develop and encourage the creation of innovative methods for producing, disseminating, and preserving the academic work using digital technologies. To achieve these objectives, she directs a technologically-focused environment of collaboration and creativity where students and faculty come together to work on projects that apply digital methods and techniques with focus and intention.
Alison is also the principal contact for the DHRX: Digital Humanities Research at Pitt initiative, which represents a transdisciplinary network of scholars at the University of Pittsburgh who use digital methods to study the ways in which humans interact with their environments.
Jamaica Jones – Graduate Student Researcher
Jamaica Jones is a PhD student in the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh, pursuing research interests in science policy and research assessment. In addition to supporting this project, Jamaica is the Project Coordinator of the NASA TOPS (Transform to Open Science) Mission. In this role, she serves as the Executive Secretary of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Subgroup on the Year of Open Science.