Lauren Tilton

Lauren Tilton is the E. Claiborne Robins Chair of Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities at the University of Richmond. She specializes in computational approaches to the study of 20th- and 21st-century visual culture. Her co-authored books include American History in 15 Photographs (Bloomsbury), Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images (MIT Press), Layered Lives: Rhetoric and Representation in the Southern Life History Project (Stanford University Press), Humanities Data in R 2nd Edition (Springer), and Computational Humanities (University of Minnesota Press). Her award-winning scholarship has received funding from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and Schmidt Sciences. She is committed to open-access scholarship in many forms, including digital and public projects such as Photogrammar.org and DigitalDocumerica.org. She is Editor-in-Chief of Computational Humanities, an open-access journal with Cambridge University Press. She is President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the scholarly association for digital humanities in the United States, and President of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), the global DH association. She earned her PhD in American Studies from Yale University.