People

People of the Voyant Consortum

The Voyant Consortium has two Co-Directors, an Executive that manages the Consortium, a Community Board that represents and engages the community of users and potential users, and a Technical Committee that advises on technical issues. Click to join our community.

Co-Directors

Geoffrey Rockwell

Geoffrey Martin Rockwell (he/him) is a Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta. He is also a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and has published on subjects such as artificial intelligence and ethics, philosophical dialogue, textual visualization and analysis, digital humanities, instructional technology, computer games and multimedia. His books include Defining Dialogue: From Socrates to the Internet (Humanity Books, 2003) and Hermeneutica, co-authored with Stéfan Sinclair (MIT Press, 2016). Hermeneutica is part of a hybrid text and tool project with Voyant Tools. He recently co-edited a book on Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Open Book Publishers, 2021) and On Making in the Digital Humanities (UCL Press, 2023).

Michael E. Sinatra

After completing a PhD in English literature at Oxford, during which he founded the open-access electronic journal Romanticism on the Net in February 1996, Michael E. Sinatra has been a full professor at the Université de Montréal since 2001. He is the founding director of the Centre for Interuniversity Research on the Digital Humanities since fall 2013, based at the Université de Montréal with its institutional partners, Concordia University and McGill University. He also leads the Research Group on Critical Editions in a Digital Context (a research team funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture since 2018) and has co-directed, along with Marcello Vitali Rosati, the “Parcours numériques” series at the Presses de l’Université de Montréal since 2014. He is the co-president of centerNet (an international network of digital humanities centers) and the president of ADHO (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations).

Executive

The Consortium Executive is responsible for the day-to-day decisions and implementation. It includes the Co-Directors, the Technical Lead(s), a Community Board representative, and others as needed.

Diane Jakacki

Diane Jakacki (she/her) is Digital Scholarship Coordinator and Affiliate Faculty in Comparative and Digital Humanities at Bucknell University. Along with Brian Croxall, she is the co-editor of What We Teach When We Teach DH: Digital Humanities in the Classroom (University of Minnesota Press, 2023). Her research focuses on digital humanities and pedagogy,early modern British literature and drama, digital scholarly production and publication. She is PI of the REED London Online project and site tech lead for the Linked Editorial Academic Framework (LEAF) virtual research environment.

Andrew MacDonald

Andrew MacDonald is a web developer with over 15 years of experience creating open source web applications. Working primarily in the digital humanities field, he has contributed to several significant projects, most notably Voyant Tools. Outside of work, Andrew is an avid cyclist, amateur yogi, and hobbyist algorithmic artist.

Community Board

Arjun Gosh

Dr. Arjun Gosh is a Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and an Associated Faculty member at the Educational Technology Services Centre at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. With a rich academic background, she was previously a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla. She is the author of several notable works, including A History of the Jana Natya Manch: Plays for the People, Freedom from Profit: Eschewing Copyright in Resistance Art, and an annotated translation of Bijon Bhattacharya’s Nabanna, accompanied by a critical introduction.

John Bradley

John Bradley is now retired, but was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London until 2015. During his time at King’s he lead or participated in more than 25 DH-oriented research projects which produced digital resources such as the Digital Prosopography of the Roman Empire (DPRR), the Art of Making in Antiquity and Early Modern London Theatres (EMLoT). He has become well known for his development of the Factoid approach to Prosopography. Before KCL, he was at the University of Toronto where he designed and created the TACT program.

Juan Steyn

Juan Steyn is the Director of Operations at SADiLaR. He has been involved in multiple Digital Humanities and Educational technology related projects. He also has a special interest in training and capacity building through his involvement within the Software and Data carpentry community as well as the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa.

Kiyonori Nagasak

Kiyonori Nagasaki is a distinguished scholar in the field of Digital Humanities, with a particular focus on Buddhist studies. He holds several key positions, including Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Digital Humanities in Tokyo, part-time lecturer of Digital Humanities at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tokyo, and Professor at Keio University. His research centers on developing digital infrastructures for Buddhist studies and advancing techniques, standards, and methodologies for humanities-related digital projects. Nagasaki has been instrumental in integrating digital technologies into the study of Buddhist literature, art, architecture, and history, contributing to the field’s modernization.

Quinn Dombroski

Quinn Dombrowski is an Academic Technology Specialist at Stanford University, focusing on supporting non-English digital humanities (DH) projects, multilingual approaches, and feminist perspectives in DH. Their work includes founding “The Data-Sitters Club,” a feminist text analysis project, and developing a tabletop roleplaying game for DH project management. They advocate for greater visibility of non-English DH communities, challenging the dominance of anglophone scholarship. Dombrowski is Co-President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and co-founder of the ACH AI working group. Their research and advocacy emphasize inclusivity and collaboration across diverse linguistic and cultural contexts in DH.

Susan Brown

Susan Brown is a distinguished professor at the University of Guelph, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship. Her research focuses on Victorian literature, women’s writing, feminist theory, and digital humanities, particularly in critical infrastructure studies and collaborative digital scholarship. Brown is a key figure in the Orlando Project, a pioneering feminist digital humanities initiative, and directs the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC), which supports cultural research in Canada. She also leads efforts to improve linked open data technologies through the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship project. Recognized for her achievements, Brown received the prestigious Roberto Busa Prize in 2024. She has authored over 50 articles and contributed significantly to the advancement of feminist and digital methodologies in the humanities, while also mentoring students and leading community-building initiatives like the THINC Lab at Guelph.

Susan Schreibman

Susan Schreibman is a Professor of Digital Arts and Culture at Maastricht University, known for her pioneering work in Digital Humanities. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and cultural studies, including digital archives, computational teaching and research, participatory engagement design, and the development of new digital publication paradigms. Schreibman has contributed to major projects like PURE3D, #dariahTeach, and Contested Memories, while also co-editing the anthology that established “Digital Humanities” as a field. She specializes in teaching digital humanities, design thinking, and user-centered design, utilizing online and blended learning methods. Schreibman has been instrumental in advancing text encoding, digital editing, and multimedia scholarship, shaping how digital archives and cultural innovation integrate with humanities research.