Alvaro de la Ossa
Alvaro obtained his Dr.rer.nat. diploma from the Artificial Intelligence Group of the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he developed an analogical reasoning model for the reutilization of diagnostic knowledge in technical domains. He is Associate Professor at the University of Costa Rica, where he teaches Artificial Intelligence-related courses for the undergraduate program of the School of Computer and Information Science and for the graduate program in Cognitive Science. He also currently chairs the National Collaboratory for Advanced Computing, an interdisciplinary collaboration space dedicated to the research and development of high-performance computing methods and algorithms to deliver scientific computing services for research projects from the Costa Rican state universities and their research partners. Moreover, Alvaro is the Executive Director of the Costa Rican Research and Education Network, RedCONARE, the Costa Rican member of the Latin American Cooperation for Advanced Networks, RedCLARA, and Vicepresident of RedCLARA’s Directive Council. He is also co-founder of the Advanced Research and Technology Collaboratory for the Americas, ARTCA, and member of its Steering Committee.
Anita Chan
Anita Say Chan is an Assistant Research Professor of Communications and an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research and teaching interests include globalization and digital cultures, innovation networks and the “periphery”, and science and technology studies in Latin America. Her manuscript on the competing imaginaries of global connection and information technologies in network-age Peru, Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism, is forthcoming with MIT Press. Her research has been awarded support from the Center for the Study of Law &
Culture at Columbia University’s School of Law and the National Science Foundation, and she has held postdoctoral fellowships at The CUNY Graduate Center’s Committee on Globalization & Social Change, and at Stanford University’s Introduction to Humanities Program.
Aryanne Quintal
Ms. Aryanne Quintal is the ARTCA Project Coordinator within the Section of Comeptitveness, Innovation and Technology of the Organization of American States in Washington D.C. Ms. Quintal was recruited after working for more then a year as a Consultant at the OAS in the Department of Human Development, Education and Culture. She previously served as a Public Relations Officer at the Embassy of Canada in Montevideo, Uruguay. She also worked for many years as a freelance journalist in Montreal, Canada. Her fields of interest include ICTs implementation and social and economic empowerment in developing countries, specifically in Latin America; citizenship education through the Internet; and media interactions with public opinion and governance.
Cathy N. Davidson
Cathy N. Davidson’s main contributions have been in the areas of history and theory of technology, including history of the book, history of industrialism and postindustrialism, and history of new technologies and society. As Vice Provost of Interdisciplinary Studies, innovative new cross-campus technologies for research and teaching were part of her charge and she has had an impact in this area both at Duke and nationally, including as a leader in national policy on digital media and learning. Her interest in issues of race, gender, and sexuality cross all her work, from eighteenth-century literature to envisioning the future of digital media and learning institutions in a digital age. She has published some twenty books including, most recently, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking, 2011); The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (with David Theo Goldberg, MIT Press, 2010); Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America (Oxford, 1986; Expanded Edition 2004). She is also the co-founder of HASTAC (“haystack”), the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, an 12,000+ network of digital visionaries committed to new forms of learning and education, and co-directs the annual John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitions. She is the first educator on the Mozilla Board of Directors, and received the 2012 Educator of the Year Award (with HASTAC cofounder Goldberg) from the World Technology Network. In 2011, President Obama appointed her to the National Council on Humanities.
Cesar Parga
Licenciado en Derecho-J.D., University of Guadalajara Law School; Certificate for the International Trade Law Post-Graduate Course, The University Institute of European Studies & The International Training Center of the ILO, Turin, Italy; LL.M., S.J.D. (candidate), George Washington University Law School. Professor Parga is Senior Trade Specialist at the Department of Trade, Tourism and Competitiveness of the Organization of American States (OAS). In this position, he conducts technical and analytical work in the fields of intellectual property rights and dispute settlement in the context of trade and integration agreements in the Western Hemisphere and Coordinates and delivers trade capacity building initiatives for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. He also served as a Trade Specialist in the OAS, where he provided technical assistance and expert support in the fields of intellectual property rights, dispute settlement and institutional issues to the negotiation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and he has taught as an adjunct professor of civil law at the University of Guadalajara Law School where he specialized in contracts and torts.
David Theo Goldberg
David Theo Goldberg, Ph.D., is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the University of California system-wide research facility for the human sciences and theoretical research in the arts. He also holds faculty appointments as Professor of Comparative Literature, Anthropology, and Criminology, Law and Society at UC Irvine, and is a Fellow of the UCI Critical Theory Institute.
Professor Goldberg’s work ranges over issues of political theory, race and racism, ethics, law and society, critical theory, cultural studies and, increasingly, digital humanities. Together with Cathy Davidson of Duke University, he founded the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) to promote partnerships between the human sciences, arts, social sciences and technology and supercomputing interests for advancing research, teaching and public outreach. Currently, with Mimi Ito he is leading the building of the MacArthur-UCHRI Research Hub in Digital Media and Learning at UC Irvine, an on-site and virtual research facility designed to promote field-building in the area.
Diana Taylor
Diana Taylor is Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at NYU. She is the author of Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America (1991), which won the Best Book Award given by New England Council on Latin American Studies and Honorable Mention in the Joe E. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama, of Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’, Duke U.P., 1997, and The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (Duke U.P., 2003) which won the ATHE Research Award in Theatre Practice and Pedagogy and the Modern Language Association Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for the best book in Latin American and Spanish Literatures and Culture (2004). She is editor of Stages of Conflict: A Reader in Latin American Theatre and Performance (forthcoming Michigan U. P.) and co-editor of Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform (Duke U.P., 2004), Defiant Acts/Actos Desafiantes: Four Plays by Diana Raznovich, Bucknell U. P., 2002, Negotiating Performance in Latin/o America: Gender, Sexuality and Theatricality, Duke U.P., 1994, and The Politics of Motherhood: Activists from Left to Right, University Press of New England, 1997. She has edited five volumes of critical essays on Latin American, Latino, and Spanish playwrights. Her articles on Latin American and Latino performance have appeared in The Drama Review, Theatre Journal, Performing Arts Journal, Latin American Theatre Review, Estreno, Gestos, Signs, MLQ and other scholarly journals. She has also been invited to participate in discussions on the role of new technologies in the arts and humanities in important conferences and commissions in the Americas (i.e. ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure). Diana Taylor is founding Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Perfo rmance and Politics, funded by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations.
Danny Powell
Danny Powell is the executive director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interests include the management of large, interdisciplinary, inter-institutional, collaborative academic research and development programs, making use of computational, data and information technology resources. He worked at Rice University from 1987 to 2001, where together with Ken Kennedy he was responsible for creating and managing three major, national computational science collaborations (an NSF-funded Center for Research on Parallel Computation, CRPC; the multiple source funded Computer and Information Technology Institute, CITI; and the DARPA-funded Los Alamos Computer Science Institute, LACSI). In 2001, Powell moved to NCSA where he took over the day-to-day operations (business, financial, administrative), including oversight of the Private Sector Program, the international partnership programs, and governmental relations. He is on the board of directors (2009-) for the LSST Corporation (a non-profit organization overseeing the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project). He is also a founding member and on the steering committee (2007 -) for the Advanced Research and Technology Collaboratory for the Americas (ARTCA), an organization formed to support and guide effective collaboration between universities, research centers, and industry in the interest of human and economic growth across South/Central/North America.
Danny Herwitz
Daniel Herwitz, professor of Comp. Lit, History of Art, Philosophy and Art & Design received the Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of Chicago in 1984, and has been teaching at the University of Michigan since 2002. He is the author of The Star as Icon Columbia Press, October, 2008, Key Concepts in Aesthetics, Continuum Press, 2008, Race and Reconciliation, University of Minnesota Press, 2003, Making Theory/Constructing Art: On the Authority of the Avant-Garde, University of Chicago Press, 1993, and Husain, Tata Press in India, 1987. He has also published Midnight’s Diaspora: Critical Encounters with Salman Rushdie, a book of essays co-edited with Ashutosh Varshney of the University of Michigan for UM Press, November 2008, Action, Art, History: Critical Engagements with Arthur Danto, Columbia University Press, March 2007, edited with Michael Kelly, and The Don Giovanni Moment, Columbia University Press, edited with Lydia Goehr, Columbia University Press, 2006. Additional publications include articles on a wide range of topics in philosophy, film studies, visual studies, avant-garde music, literature and architecture. Herwitz won a National Book Award in India for Husain. He was Mellon Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (1991-2) also courtesy of the ACLS, and Andrew Mellon Visitor Scholar at the University of Cape Town (2010). He has been invited to be a Fellow at the Australian National University during 2012.
Fernando Hernandez
Fernando Hernandez is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (ICHASS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. He is also Professor Emeritus of Education and Computer Science at the California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA). While at CSULA he served as a member of the Academic Senate, Chair of the Division of Educational Foundations and Interdivisional Studies and Assistant Dean of Education. He is a founding member of the Department of Computer Science at CSULA. During his tenure at Cal State Los Angeles he taught graduate courses in Educational Psychology, Research Methods, Advanced Learning theory, as well as courses in the uses of computers and technology in education. A psychologist he is interested in how to use technology to enhance human growth and development.
A major focus area of his work involves how to expand educational opportunities for under-represented groups. He is a founding member of the Educational Opportunities Program at California State University, Long Beach where he obtained his undergraduate degree. He also served as the Chairman of the California State Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
He has a PhD in Human Behavior, an MA in Urban Studies and a BA in Political Science and Public Administration.
Fernando Hernández es investigador mayor en el Instituto de Computación en Humanidades, Artes y Ciencias Sociales (ICHASS) de la Universidad de Illinois, Urbana Champaign. También es Profesor Emérito de Educación y Ciencia de la Computación en la Universidad Estatal de California, Los Angeles (CSULA). Mientras estancia en CSULA se desempeñó como miembro del Senado Académico, Presidente de la División de Fundaciones Educativo y Estudios interdivisional y Vicedecano de Educación. Él es un miembro fundador de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Computación en CSULA. Durante su estancia en Cal State Los Angeles fue profesor de cursos de posgrado en Psicología de la Educación, Métodos de Investigación, teoría de aprendizaje avanzado, así como cursos en los usos de las computadoras y la tecnología en la educación. Un psicólogo se interesa en cómo utilizar la tecnología para mejorar el crecimiento y desarrollo humano.
Un área de enfoque importante de su trabajo consiste en la forma de ampliar las oportunidades educativas para los grupos subrepresentados. Es miembro fundador del Programa de Oportunidades Educativas en la California State University, Long Beach, donde obtuvo su título de grado. También se desempeñó como Presidente del Estado de California del Comité Asesor de la Comisión de Estados Unidos sobre los Derechos Civiles.
El tiene su doctorado en Comportamiento Humano, una maestría en Estudios Urbanos y una licenciatura en Ciencias Políticas y Administración Pública.
Herbert Hoeger
Herbert R. Hoeger graduated in Systems Engineering in 1984 and got a Master’s of Science in Applied Statistics in 1988 from the Universidad de Los Andes (ULA), Mérida-Venezuela, and a Master’s of Science and PhD in Computers Science in 1991 and 1995, respectively, from the University of Iowa, Iowa-USA. He was a visiting Professor at Boise State University, Idaho-USA, between 1999 and 2001. Has been author/coauthor of electronic publications as well as in journals, has participated in various congresses and has lectured and been organizers of different workshops. He is the Director of the Centro de Simulación y Modelos, the coordinator of the Grid area and Professor at the Universidad de Los Andes. Participated as WP4 deputy manager in EELA, NA2 manager in EELA-2 and WP2 manager in GISELA , all projects co-financed by the European Commission. Currently he is supporting the SCALAC initiative.
Hilary Culbertson
Hilary Culbertson is Program Manager for HASTAC and the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition. She has communications and program management experience in university, nonprofit, and art museum settings, including UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Andy Warhol Museum. Hilary holds an MA in Art History from the University of Pittsburgh; her master’s thesis was on collecting, patronage, and gender in America during the Gilded Age.
Jessica Beard
Jessica Beard is a doctoral candidate in Literature at UCSC, finishing a dissertation about Emily Dickinson and the Archive. She is a general editor at the Dickinson Electronic Archives, former HASTAC scholar, and recently organized a THATCamp at UC Berkeley around Alternative Academic Careers.
John Eger
John M. Eger, Director of the Creative Economy Initiative at San Diego State University (SDSU) is the Lionel Van Deerlin Endowed Chair of Communications and Public Policy. He teaches in the School of Journalism and Media Studies, and the SDSU Honors Program.
Earlier, he was Legal Assistant to FCC Chairman Dean Burch, former Adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and Director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy, during which time he helped spearhead the restructuring of America’s telecom Industry. As Senior Vice President of CBS he was responsible for Worldwide Enterprises, and helped open China to commercial television, produced the award winning series WWWII with Walter Cronkite, and launched the concept of in-flight programming with Dan Rather and the Evening News.
He is an author and lecturer on the subjects of creativity and innovation, education and economic development, and formerly served as the President of Smart Communities, a research and educational organization dedicated to helping local communities connect to the global economy.
Recently he authored the seminal “Guidebook for Smart Communities”, a “how to” for communities struggling to compete in the age of the Internet; “The Creative Community: Linking Art, Culture, Commerce and Community”, a call to action to reinvent our communities for the Creative Age; and “Art Education and the Innovation Economy.”
While at SDSU he has served as Chair of California Governor’s first Commission on Information Technology; Chair of the Governors Committee on Education and Technology; and Chair of San Diego Mayor’s “City of the Future” Commission.
Julia Bello-Bravo
Dr. Julia Bello Bravo is the Assistant Director of Illinois Strategic International Partnership in the office of the Associate Provost for International Affairs International Programs and Studies. She is also the Co-Director Scientific Animations Without Borders, as University of Illinois based initiative focused on the development of educational content for low literate learners in their own languages. Dr. Bello holds a law degree from the University Complutense of Madrid, an MBA from IDE-CESEM, Madrid and an MS and PhD from Purdue University.
Julie Thompson Klein
Julie Thompson Klein is Professor of Humanities, English/Interdisciplinary Studies and Faculty Fellow in the Office for Teaching and Learning at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan (U.S.A.). Holder of a Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon, Dr. Klein is past president of the Association for Integrative Studies (AIS) and former editor of the AIS journal, Issues in Integrative Studies.
Joseph Zavala
Dr. Joseph Zavala is originally from Lima, Peru and has lived primarily in Southern California and other countries in Latin America. He has served as the Spanish Program Lead at National University since July 2008 and now as Vice President for Student Services at the same institution. He has also worked as Co-Chair of the Spanish Program and as Assistant Professor at Southwestern University (Georgetown, Texas). He holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Miami, and an M.A. in Spanish and B.A. in Economics from California State University, Long Beach. He has worked outside of academia in Advertising as Director of Strategic Planning for Leo Burnett and managed his own consulting firm for a number of years, Brand Solutions. His research specializes in Colonial Spanish American Literature and History. He is particularly interested on issues of cultural identity, social conflict, and modes of representation. He has co-published a book, Visión del Perú de académicos peruanos en Estados Unidos (2008, Peru and Its Readers: Visions from the North) as well as other peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Zavala enjoys spending time with his wife and two kids, traveling, and surfing.
Joyce Rudinsky
Joyce Rudinsky is a visual artist working with digital and interactive media. She creates both real and virtual interactive, immersive environments. Her recent series, Psychasthenia, uses game engine technology to investigate the contemporary psychological condition. Rudinsky is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Kevin Franklin
Kevin Franklin is formerly Executive Director of the University of California system-wide Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and a Deputy Director of the University of California San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Franklin was appointed as Executive Director of the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science, (I-CHASS), Research Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, Adjunct Associate Professor,African American Studies, and Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in July 2007.
Dr. Franklin is a principal co-founder of the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) In May 2007, Franklin co-guest edited Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch for the issue “Socializing Cyberinfrastructure: Networking the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences”. In addition to his United States HASS Cyberinfrastructure work, Franklin leads a number of international research activities including the Advanced Research and Technology Collaboratory for the Americas (ARTCA) which he co-founded in 2007 and is now hosted at the Organization of the American States (OAS).
Kathleen Woodward
Kathleen Woodward, Professor of English, has served as Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities since 2000. She is the author of Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions (2009), Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (1991) and At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams (1980). She has published essays in the broad crossdisciplinary domains of the emotions, women and aging, and technology and culture in American Literary History, Discourse, differences, Generations, Indiana Law Journal, SubStance, Journal of Women’s History, Women’s Review of Books, South Atlantic Review, Studies in the Novel, and Cultural Critique. She is also the editor of Figuring Age: Women—Bodies—Generations (1999) and The Myths of Information: Technology and Postindustrial Culture (1980) as well as the coeditor of Memory and Desire: Aging—Literature—Psychoanalysis (1986), The Technological Imagination: Theories and Fictions (1980), and Aging and the Elderly: Humanistic Perspectives in Gerontology (1978). From 1986-1995 she coedited Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. She is presently working on risk in the context of globalization and population aging.
Woodward has received grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a member of the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association and a member of the Steering Committee of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). She served on the Board of Directors of the National Humanities Alliance from 2003-2009 and from 2000-2005 was Chair of the National Advisory Board of Imagining America, a broad-based network of scholars and leaders of cultural institutions devoted to fostering the development of campus-community partnerships. From 1995-2001 she was President of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, an international organization of over 160 members, and she continues to serve on its International Advisory Board. Woodward was Director of the Center for Twentieth Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1981 to 2000, where she taught in the Department of English and the interdisciplinary graduate program in Modern Studies. She has also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Smith College and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California at San Diego.
Dr. Lina Barrientos
Musicologist/ethnomusicologist, member of the Music Department of Universidad de La Serena-Chile, she teaches in the Programs of Pedagogy in Musical Education, the Licenciate in Music, and an interdisciplinary Masters program in Latin American Studies. In research, she coordinates the GEMAndina, Grupo de Estudio de Música Andina (Study Group of Andine Music), through which she does research, publishes, study seminars and presents conferences. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Revista Musical Chilena (Chilean Musical Magazine), editor of the RMCh Nº 213/2010 with the main topic of “Music and Women” and Nº 216/2011 with the central theme of “Andine Music”. Principal organizer of project Achalai/ComCLARA, a Community of 30 researchers centered around the study of prehispanic sound/music instruments for the Recovery and Preservation of the Inmaterial Heritage of Musical Traditions. Currently she is working on a study relative to the music present at the Mariana Festivities at the north of Chile, within the framework of popular religiosity.
Luis Furlan
Although formally trained in Electrical Engineering, and Physics, in the United States (Bucknell and Temple Universities), upon his return to Guatemala he immediately saw the opportunity of joining, and impel, the very incipient field of Computer Science. In 1977 he established the first Computer Science program in the country, at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala of which he was Chair of the Department until 2012. Currently he is Director of the Center for Studies in Applied Informatics, at the University’s Research Institute. In 1990 he introduced the internet into the country. His current work is in deploying advanced, high capacity, networks in Latin America and, of course, teaching. Other research interest include Educational Informatics particularly the introduction of the STEM subjects at the elementary and secondary level, in both rural and urban areas. He has received multiple awards and recognitions, some of which are: “Outstanding Computing Pioneer in Guatemala” (ADIG, 1995), induction into the National Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences (2010), Trajectory 2012 Award (LACNIC, 2012) for his work in developing and promoting the Internet in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Luis Nuñez
Mariela Noriega Alegría
Economist specialized in Sustainable Development and Projects Management. Ms. Mariela Noriega is the General Director of Cultural Industries and Arts of the Peruvian Ministry of Culture. She has had an interesting career on culture management, strategic planning and development projects financed by international cooperation grant. She holds an Economics Degree from the University Pierre Mèndes France (France 2001) and a Master Degree in Project Design, Strategy and Management (France, 2002).
Mauricio Carrillo-Tripp
Dr. Mauricio Carrillo-Tripp is an Associate Professor at the National Genomics for Biodiversity Laboratory from Cinvestav, México, where he leads the Computational Biophysics and Bioinformatics Lab. He is a member of the National Science Network of the Mexican Science Council since 2008. His research has focused on the molecular function of biological systems employing theoretical and numerical methods and by developing novel numerical analysis and visualization tools.
Michael Simeone
Michael Simeone is the Director of the Nexus Lab for Digital Humanities and Transdisciplinary Informatics within the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University. He is also affiliated with the Image and Spatial Data Analysis Division at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. His research includes cultural studies of science and technology, humanities visualization methods, the use of computer vision in the digital humanities, and data-driven collaborations that bridge environmental sciences and humanities. He received his PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Moises Gomez
Neil Fraistat
Neil Fraistat is Professor of English and Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland. He currently chairs the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of centerNet, an international network of digital humanities centers, and is Vice President of the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Fraistat is Co-Founder and General Editor of the Romantic Circles Website and has published widely on the subjects of Romanticism, Textual Studies, and Digital Humanities in various articles and in the ten books he has authored or edited. His most recent publications are The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship and Volume III of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. He has been awarded both the Society for Textual Scholarship’s biennial Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize and the biennial Richard J. Finneran Prize, the Keats-Shelley Association Prize, honorable mention for the Modern Language Association’s biennial Distinguished Scholarly Edition Prize, and the Keats-Shelley Association’s Distinguished Scholar Award.
Pierre Emile Vandoorne Romero
Pierre Emile Vandoorne is the Director of the audiovisual, phonography and new media at the Peruvian Ministry of Culture. He is also a Professor at the Department of Communications of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Before his appointment at the Ministry of Culture, he worked as an independent publisher and an audiovisual specialist for various research projects in Peru and abroad.
Raymond G. Siemens
Ray Siemens is Canada Research chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, in English and Computer Science. He is founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies, and his publications include, among others, Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Humanities (with Schreibman and Unsworth), Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Literary Studies (with Schreibman), A Social Edition of the Devonshire MS, and Literary Studies in the Digital Age (MLA, with Price). He directs the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and serves as Vice President of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences for Research Dissemination, recently serving also as Chair of the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization’s Steering Committee.
Simon Appleford
Simon Appleford is associate director for humanities, arts, and social sciences at the Clemson CyberInstitute, and an adjunct lecturer in history at Clemson University. Simon received a Masters of Arts in modern history and a Masters of Literature in modern American history from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and is currently completing his Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining Clemson University in 2011, he was assistant director at the University of Illinois’ Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science. Together with Jennifer Guiliano, he is co-author of the digital resource, DevDH.org.
Santiago Nunez-Corrales
Eng. Santiago Núñez Corrales is the current Director of Digital Technologies at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications in Costa Rica. He is also an associate research scientist at the e-Science Research Program in the Costa Rica Institute of Technology and invited research scientist at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory of the National Center for Advanced Technology Studies. Since 2013, Núñez is founding member of the Foundation for Renewable Energy (FUPER) in Costa Rica. In the past, he worked as instructor at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology and for the embedded systems industry both directly with RidgeRun LLC as Senior Embedded Engineer and in the design process of an Embedded Systems training program jointly with Cenfotec University and Hewlett-Packard. Previously, Núñez was a research scientist at the National Center for Advanced Technology Studies (CeNAT) where he performed research in computational science, supercomputing and computational nanotechnology. He also performed research with the National University Community Research Institute (NUCRI) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Simone Le Gendre
Simone Le Gendre is a Science Educator at the National Science Centre of the National Institute of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (NIHERST) in Trinidad and Tobago. A former elementary school teacher in the United States with a special focus on science and math instruction, Ms. Le Gendre currently spearheads the Science Academy summer program, in-house science education initiatives, and outreach programs for underserved communities. In her capacity as Science Educator, she also trains and mentors staff in the delivery of inquiry- based science instruction in order to develop higher order thinking skills in students and a scientific mindset in the general citizenry. Ms. Le Gendre is a key member of the team that is spearheading the NIHERST Science City project, which entails the construction of a new national science centre and an outdoor discovery park on a 52-acre site in central Trinidad. Her fields of interest include culturally responsive pedagogy, cultural influences on students’ perception of science, the role of ICT strategies inshaping a narrative for interculturalism and best practices in the inquiry-based approach to instructional delivery in STEM fields.
Scott Poole
Marshall Scott Poole is David and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar, Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Director of I-CHASS: The Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of Illinois. He is also a CCSS Fellow in the Organization Science Program at Vrije University in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His research interests include group and organizational communication, information and communication technologies, collaboration, organizational change and innovation, and theory construction. One of Scott’s current research projects is the Virtual Worlds Exploratorium Project, a multi-university collaboration which investigates communication and behavior in massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs). Specific research within this project includes studies of team effectiveness, mentoring and learning and trust in MMOGs. Another of Scott’s current research projects focuses on coordination of multi-team systems in emergency response organizations and on how communication and information technologies promote or inhibit effective response.
Tara McPherson
Tara McPherson is Associate Professor of Gender and Critical Studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and Director of the Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study. She also serves as the Faculty Chair for USC’s Provost Initiative in the Arts and Humanities. Her Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South (Duke UP: 2003) received the 2004 John G. Cawelti Award for the outstanding book published on American Culture, among other awards. She is co-editor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Duke UP: 2003) and editor of Digital Youth,Innovation and the Unexpected, part of the MacArthur Foundation series on Digital Media and Learning (MIT Press, 2008.) Her writing has appeared in numerous journals, includingCamera Obscura,The Velvet Light Trap, Discourse, and Screen, and in edited anthologies such as Race and Cyberspace, The New Media Book,The Object Reader, Virtual Publics,The Visual Culture Reader 2.0, and Basketball Jones. The anthology,Transmedia Frictions, co-edited with Marsha Kinder, is forthcoming from the University of California Press, and she is currently working on a manuscript on emerging paradigms for digital scholarship. Her new media research focuses on the cultural contexts of historic and contemporary computing, as well as upon the development of new tools and paradigms for digital publishing, learning, and research. McPherson was among the founding organizers of Race in Digital Space, a multi-year project supported by the Annenberg Center for Communication and the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. She continues the efforts begun during these events through an ongoing partnership with local public schools in Los Angeles. She is currently working with the Los Feliz Charter School for the Arts to integrate digital platforms for learning into a constructivist, hands-on curriculum.
She is the Founding Editor of Vectors, www.vectorsjournal.org, a multimedia peer-reviewed journal affiliated with the Open Humanities Press, and is one of two editors for the MacArthur-supported International Journal of Learning and Media (launched by MIT Press in 2009.) She is on the advisory board of the Mellon-funded Scholarly Communications Institute, is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Archives, has frequently been an AFI juror, and is a founding board member of HASTAC www.hastac.org. She serves as a managing editor for American Quarterly and is on the boards of several journals. With support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, she is currently working with colleagues from Brown, NYU, Rochester, and UC San Diego and with several academic presses and archives to explore new modes of scholarship for visual culture research.
Terry L. Mills
Dr. Mills is the Dean for Research and Director of the Office for Sponsored Programs, and Professor of Sociology at Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA.
As a sociologist, his primary area of research is social determinants of health, health disparities and inequities. One investigative issue might be, “how does geographic location affect self-assessments of physical and mental health?” Additionally, he is interested in social/behavioral factors associated with environmental sustainability. For example, “how do patterns of consumerism, consumption, and waste affect the environment?” Dr. Mills is the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Family. Additionally, he has been an ad-hoc reviewer for the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences and Psychological Science, Research in Aging, Family Relations, Journal of the National Medical Association, and Journal of Aging Studies. He has published widely, and edited a two-volume edition of the Journal of Family Issues (vol. 22:[4/5]), which focused on grandparent-grandchild relationships. Dr. Mills is a 2009 recipient of the Outstanding Mentor Award from the GSA Taskforce on Minority Issues in Aging, and a 2005 recipient of the William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award from the Florida Education Fund/McKnight Doctoral Fellows Program. Currently, he serves as a mentor and member of the external advisory council for the NIA-funded Deep South RCMAR (Morehouse School of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Tuskegee University, and the University of Alabama); The Wayne State University Institute of Gerontology, and the Morehouse NIH-funded grant to Build Research Infrastructure and Capacity (BRIC).
Timothy Murray
Timothy Murray is Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. He is the Cornell Principal Investigator of the Central Humanities Corridor, generously supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and he sits on the International Advisory Board of the Consortium of the Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and the Steering Committee of the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC). He is Co-Moderator of the -empyre- new media listserv and the author of Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (Minnesota 2008); Zonas de Contacto: el arte en CD-ROM (Centro de la imagen, 1999); Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, Art (Routledge, 1997); Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and Canvas (Routledge, 1993); Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius in XVIIth-Century England and France (Oxford, 1987). He is editor of Mimesis, Masochism & Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought (Michigan, 1997) and, with Alan Smith, Repossessions: Psychoanalysis and the Phantasms of Early-Modern Culture (Minnesota, 1997). His curatorial projects include CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA and Contact Zones: The Art of the CD-Rom.
Tom Tabor
Mr. Tabor has been internationally acknowledged as a pioneer in the electronic publishing industry. In the late eighties, Tom launched an Internet-based version of Supercomputing Review magazine followed by the highly successful HPCwire in the early nineties. HPCwire is recognized as the very first paid-subscription, paid-advertising publication distributed on the Internet and is today considered the worldwide publication of record for the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry. Currently, Tom is CEO of Tabor Communications, Inc. (TCI). As a leading international media, events, advertising and communications organization, for over the past 24+ years, TCI has grown to become globally-recognized as the preeminent information source for covering the fastest computers in the world and the people who run them. TCI companies include Tabor Advertising, a technology focused, full service advertising agency, and, Tabor Publications and Events with publications under the following titles – Enterprise Tech, HPCwire, Digital Manufacturing Report and Datanami.
Tom was formerly the publisher of the award winning Supercomputing Review magazine. He has over 30 years of experience in business-to-business publishing, with the last 24+ years focused primarily on advance computing technologies
Tomás Thayer Morel
Licenciate in Music (University of Chile, 1987), he holds a Masters degree in Education with an emphasis on Educational Informatics (University of Chile, 2008). He has also done studies in Emotional Education (UNESCO, 2003) and Virtual Pedagogy (UMCE – University of Lund, 2009).
Since 1982 he has delved into the study and interpretation of the Classical Music of Northern India and is currently and exponent of the Bansuri (classical bamboo flute of India), being a disciple of Bansuri G. S. Sachdev.
He is currently with the Department of Music and Director of Extension and Vinculation with the Environment, of the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences (UMCE). As a researcher he is Director of the Innovation Program in Science and Art (PICALAB), financed by V TIC EDU of FONDEF – National Council of Science and Technology (Conicyt), which was recently nominated as a finalist for the 2013 National Award of Innovation in Scientific Education.
Licenciado en Música (U. de Chile, 1987). Magíster en Educación con Mención en Informática Educativa (U. de Chile, 2008). Diplomado en Educación Emocional (UNESCO, 2003) y Diplomado en Pedagogía Virtual (UMCE – U. de Lund, 2009).
Desde 1982 ha profundizado en el estudio e interpretación de la Música Clásica del Norte de India, y actualmente es un exponente del Bansuri (Flauta Clásica de Bambú de la India) , y discípulo del Maestro de Bansuri G. S. Sachdev.
Es académico del Departamento de Música y Director de Extensión y de Vinculación con el Medio de la Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Edución UMCE. Tambien como investigador se desempeña como Director del Programa de Innovación en Ciencia y Arte, (PICALAB) financiado por V TIC EDU de FONDEF – Conicyt. que recientemente fue nominado como Finalista al Premio Nacional Innovación en Educación Científica 2013
Vernon Burton
Orville Vernon Burton is Creativity Professor of Humanities, Professor of History and Computer Science at Clemson University, and the Director of the Clemson CyberInstitute. From 2008-2010, he was the Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University. He was the founding Director of the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I CHASS) at the University of Illinois, where he is emeritus University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar, University Scholar, and Professor of History, African American Studies, and Sociology. At the University of Illinois, he continues to chair the I-CHASS advisory board and is also a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) where he served as Associate Director for Humanities and Social Sciences from 2002-2010. Burton’s research and teaching interests include the American South, especially race relations and community, and the intersection of humanities and social sciences.
Vivian Fritz Roa
Investigadora y coreógrafa chilena, residente en Francia. Realiza sus estudios de danza en la Universidad de Chile. Profesora de artes plásticas y diplomada en fotografía digital en la P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Creadora del laboratorio de danza contemporánea y experiencias educativas, Acontraluz, en Chile (Colegio Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,1997-2006). Colabora en varios proyectos de creación e investigación entre Chile, Colombia, España y Francia. Realiza cursos de danza y uso de la imagen en la Universidad de Estrasburgo (20010-2013). Iniciadora y directora del proyecto « Seuil-Lab » (Umbral-Laboratorio), laboratorio, y colectivo artístico experimental con uso de nuevas tecnologías. Miembro del Colegio Doctoral Europeo. Obtiene una beca científica de Conicyt (Chile-Francia) y del Collège Doctoral Européen (Francia) para trabajar su tesis: “Danza y nuevas tecnologías, hacia inéditas formas de creación coreográfica”.