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

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

I look for students who have strong programming and technical skills but also welcome students with little to no computational background. I value students with investment in the humanities, especially literature and libraries.

If you’re interested in joining my group, you can send me a short email about your specific research interests at melwalsh at uw dot edu. Sadly I won’t be able to respond to most emails, but I will note your interest, which is helpful.

To apply to work with me, you can apply to the PhD program in the UW Information School and list me as an advisor.

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 2024-2025.

Summer Program: I have worked with students for the past two summers through the Humanities Data Science Summer Institute at the University of Washington (available only to UW students). HDSSI will run again in summer 2025, but applications have closed.

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