Digital Humanities Center Staff

Pamella Lach (she/her/hers) is the Digital Humanities Librarian, Director of the Digital Humanities Center, and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Initiative (DH@SDSU). Pam’s work explores how new and emerging technologies transform humanistic scholarship and pedagogy. Pam’s work is grounded in an ethics of care and community building, critical and ethical applications of technology in research and teaching, and process-oriented experimentation. She is the co-creator with the National Humanities Center of the acclaimed series of podcast institutes that have helped more than 600 graduate students, faculty, library folks, alt-ac workers, and independent scholars move towards a more collaborative, care-centered, networked approach to the humanities. She has a PhD in U.S. Cultural History with an emphasis on gender and film history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a MS in Information Science from UNC’s School of Information and Library Science. 

Patrick Flanigan (he/him/his)

Patrick Flanigan is the Digital Humanities Center Programs & Operations Specialist. He supports the DH Initiative’s research, scholarly and creative activities in the Digital Humanities Center. This involves leading the production of digital literacy and tool-based (asynchronous) tutorials and other online learning materials, including creating new tutorials and overseeing student assistants’ production of peer-to-peer tool tutorials; tutorial topics might focus on (but are not limited to): Adobe Creative Cloud, lightweight data visualization platforms,  podcasting, digital storytelling and electronic-literature platforms, mobile applications, and text analysis tools.

Patrick is a resource for users interested in podcasting and video as he specializes in recording, editing, and production. He is a supporter of Arsenal Football Club.

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