Loren has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and French and Francophone Studies and a Master of Science degree in Theory and Practice in Teacher Education from the University of Tennessee Knoxville. In 2021, she earned a Master of Arts degree in French here at the University of Virginia. Before coming to UVA, she taught English and French at the secondary level for several years first outside of Montpellier, France and then in the Richmond, Virginia area. In addition to her studies at UVA, she has completed coursework with the Rare Book School here in Charlottesville.

Louis P. Nelson is Professor of Architectural History and the Vice Provost for Academic Outreach in the Office of the Provost. He is a specialist in the built environments of the early modern Atlantic world, with published work on the American South, the Caribbean, and West Africa. His current research engages the spaces of enslavement in West Africa and in the Americas, working to document and interpret the buildings and landscapes that shaped the trans-Atlantic slave trade. He has a second collaborative project working to understand the University of Virginia as a landscape of slavery.

Visiting Fellow, IATH

Stephanie Polos is a Ph.D. student in the Program for Mediterranean Art and Archaeology in the Department of Art. She earned a B.A. in History from Humboldt State University (2015) and an M.A. in Classics from San Francisco State University (2019). She focuses on Archaic and Classical Greek art and the connections between social customs and artistic representations. She is interested in using DH training to explore digital avenues of research in the world of Classical Art.

I'm a PhD candidate in the Critical and Comparative Studies program at UVA's Department of Music. I received my BA in Music from the University of Redlands (2016). My research interests include the intersections of race and gender in music performance. The topic of my dissertation is representations of women of color in Broadway musicals, focusing particularly on "colorblind" or race-conscious casting in the past decade. I'm interested in the reparative possibilities of disidentification, after the work of scholars like Jose Esteban Muñoz.

Kelsey Nason is an MA student in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. She hopes to use her time in the DH Certificate to refine her skills in large scale text analytics, learn the art of text mapping, and pursue a project in DH that supports her interests in gender binaries in medieval texts. She continues to explore the different tools of DH to incorporate it into her upcoming MA thesis and future studies.