Cara Marta Messina is a third year PhD student in the English Department, focusing on Writing and Rhetoric. She is the recipient of the 2019 Kairos Journal Graduate Student Teaching Award. Her research interests include writing studies, fan studies, digital rhetoric, rhetorical genre studies, and critical digital pedagogy. Her work merges writing analytics, digital humanities, and writing studies methodologies to trace online critical fan composing practices. She is an advocate for making knowledges accessible and incorporates a digital critical pedagogical lens in her work teaching, working with other instructors on professional development, and providing pedagogical resources through the use of online toolkits and documentation.

Hanyu is a first year PhD student working both in the LAZER Lab and with Professor Donghee Jo. He graduated with a degree in Economics and Political Science from Swarthmore College in 2016. He is interested in texts, maps, social networks and broadly exploring the interdisciplinary nature of network science. 

Molly Nebiolo is a third year PhD candidate in the History program. She completed her bachelor's degree in both history and biology from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. Coming from a background of over four years' experience working as an IT Technician, Molly enjoys the multitude of interdisciplinary applications that come with working in the digital humanities, with their uses for her own work and as pedagogical frameworks for the classroom.

Alexis Yohros is a doctoral student in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and a Harvard Rappaport Public Policy Fellow. She does research on youth violence, juvenile justice, and evidence-based crime prevention.

Sarah is a PhD candidate in literature at Northeastern. Her research interests include gender and sexuality studies, modernism, critical race theory, and literature of the US South. Her dissertation, “Women Writing Racelessness: Performativity and Racial Absence in Twentieth Century Women’s Writing,” analyzes both historical and discursive attempts by women to opt out of racial identification. In addition to her NULab fellowship, Sarah also provides support and training for CERES, a Northeastern supported platform for creating digital archives.

Lara Rose recently traded her home in the Rocky Mountains for a city built by the sea. From here (Boston), she studies historical and literary evidence of mental illness, racism, and oppression, and how those systemic issues affect American ideals of home and family. When she isn't studying for her comprehensive exams, she works on her forthcoming children's book in which a small furry creature, the Little Bump Cat, explores ideas of anxiety, adventure, and belonging.

Benjamin J. Doyle is a PhD candidate in English at Northeastern University. His research focuses on the nineteenth-century Atlantic world, human rights, and textual interface. Ben is currently project manager for the TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service (TAPAS) and developer for the Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ecda).

Fields: Early American and Caribbean literature; Digital Humanities; Atlantic Studies; Feminist Theory

Liz Polcha is a PhD candidate in the English department, specializing in early American and early Caribbean literature. Her dissertation, "The Sable Curtain: Redaction and the Exchange of Women in Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Print Culture," theorizes the redaction of interracial sexual encounters in colonial Caribbean writing. In addition to her appointment as fellow in the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, Liz also serves as the Research and Metadata Lead for the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, and as a Research and Encoding Specialist for the Women Writers Project.

Fields: Literary Journalism, 20th Century American Literature, Digital Humanities

Jonathan Fitzgerald (Fitz) is a second year PhD student in the English Department, a research assistant for the Global Viral Texts Project, and managing editor of DHQ. His interests include Literary Journalism, 20th century American literature, and Digital Humanities. His current research focuses on using classification methods to identify genres in digital newspaper archives. Before enrolling at Northeastern, Jonathan worked as a freelance web developer and journalist, with articles and essays appearing in publications such as The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and others.

Website: www.jonathandfitzgerald.com

Gregory Palermo is a PhD student in English at Northeastern University. Having majored in literature and physics while pursuing his bachelor’s degree as an Edgar Fellow at SUNY Geneseo, Greg takes pleasure in applying his computational background to rhetoric and the arts. Greg works as a Graduate Assistant at the Digital Scholarship Group, the Project Manager for the Thoreau Journal Drawings Project, and a Research and Teaching Assistant in Women’s, Gender, And Sexuality Studies. His current research interests include Text Analysis, Data Modeling, Citation Analysis, Writing for the Sciences, and Masculinities.

Matt joined the Network Science Ph.D. Program in 2015 and has a joint appointment with the Lazer Lab and and the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. As a member of the political science track, his research interests include modeling civil war, ethnic cleansing, and humanitarian crises with a mixture of data mining and field work. Prior to Northeastern, Matt worked and interned at two peacebuidling organizations, Seeds of Peace and Search for Common Ground, and taught high school math at Milton Academy in Boston, where he was awarded an Innovation Fund grant to develop a course on game theory and social choice called, "Math, Politics, and Society." He received his B.A. at Williams College, where he studied math and international studies and graduated Cum Laude in 2008. His work, “The Isoperimetric Problem on Euclidean, Spherical, and Hyperbolic Surfaces" was published in the Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society (2011).

Devin was previously a lead developer at a startup leveraging social network data in Portland Oregon. He holds a MSc in Social Science of the Internet from Oxford University's Internet Institute, and attended Bennington College for undergrad. His primary interests orbit around the information that people leave behind on the Internet, what that information can provide in explaining human behavior, and by what methods can this data be interrogated.

Website: http://devingaffney.com/

Kevin Smith is a PhD student in the English Department at Northeastern University. His interests include rhetoric and composition, digital humanities, new media, and digital literacy. His research examines constructions of community in digital archival projects. Most recently, he has served as project manager for the Boston City Archives Collection of Our Marathon. He also works as a research assistant on the Viral Texts project (http://web.northeastern.edu/nulab/infectious-texts/), which examines patterns of reprinting in 19th century periodicals.

Website: http://kevingeraldsmith.com/

Elizabeth Hopwood is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Northeastern University studying C19 transatlantic literature and the Digital Humanities. Her dissertation, "Eating the Atlantic: Race, Gender, and Gastronomic Borders in 19th Century U.S. and Caribbean Literature," examines foodways nineteenth century U.S. and Caribbean novels and slave narratives. Most recently she has worked as a research assistant on Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive; the Women Writer's Project; and the Early Caribbean Digital Archive.

Alicia is currently a Postdoc in the Digital Liberal Arts at Middlebury College. She successfully defended my dissertation, which was an eco-feminist project that explores how women writing in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century contributed to ecological discourses through discussions of the natural world and nationalism.

She has also worked as the Project Co-Director for Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive, the Project Manager for The Women Writers Project, and the Development Editor for GradHacker.

Website: https://about.me/aliciapeaker