Mentorship

Working with students is one of the best parts of my job! I am lucky to collaborate with PhD students, and occasionally with Master’s students and undergraduate students.

PhD

Current PhD students:

• Neel Gupta
• Imani Finkley

My group broadly works in the fields of digital humanities, cultural analytics, and critical data studies/critical AI, with a focus on contemporary books and publishing, public libraries, cultural heritage, and social media.

In 2025-2026, I am not currently planning to accept new PhD students as a solo advisor, though there may be co-advising opportunities. You can learn more about other faculty in the iSchool and apply to the PhD program here: https://ischool.uw.edu/programs/phd/admissions.

Other Mentorship

RAships: Occasionally I have other paid research opportunities for students (both graduate and undergraduate). When I do, I circulate advertisements to relevant departments on campus, and I will also post them here.

Independent Studies: Periodically I also supervise independent studies. However, I will not be supervising independent studies in 2025-2026.

Summer Program: I have worked with students for the past three summers through the Humanities Data Science Summer Institute at the University of Washington (available only to UW students). Pending funding HDSSI will run again in summer 2026, with applications opening in late winter/early spring.

HDSSI 2025
Grad students: Neel Gupta (iSchool)
Undergraduate students: Hongyuan (Tony) Dong, Em Backstrom, Karalee Harris, Daniella Maor

HDSSI 2024
Grad students: Suh Young Choi (Classics)
Undergraduate students: Hoda Ayad, Chloe Abrahams, Kaylee Cho, Shira Zur

HDSSI 2023 Grad students: Naomi Tachikawa Shapiro (Linguistics)
Undergraduate students: Phyllis Chen, Jolie Tran