DARIAH welcomes four newly elected members joining the Scientific Board from January 2025 onwards, Claire Warwick, Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of English at Durham University, Elena Pierazzo, DH Professor at the Centre d’Études Superieures de la Renaissance, University of Tours, Isto Huvila, Professor of Information Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden and Adjunct Professor in information management at Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland and Salvatore Capasso, Professor of Economics at the University of Naples Parthenope, Italy.
Claire Warwick is a Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of English at Durham University. Her research is concerned with the way that digital resources, including artificial intelligence techniques, are used in the humanities and cultural heritage and in reading behaviour in physical and digital spaces. She has recently completed a monograph: Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade: A World Elsewhere. She has led and co-investigated several digital humanities research projects, including the AEOLIAN network, which considered the potential for the application of AI to archives and cultural heritage. She collaborates widely, especially with researchers in Canada and the USA and gave the closing plenary lecture for the DH2016 conference. She has served on various advisory boards in digital humanities, for example the British Library’s BL Labs and was a member of the Conseil Scientifique du Campus Condorcet in Paris.
Elena Pierazzo is a DH Professor at the Centre d’Études Superieures de la Renaissance, University of Tours, where she directs the master in Digital Humanities. She has a PhD in Italian Philology. Her specialisms are Italian Renaissance texts, digital editions of early modern and modern draft manuscripts, digital editing, and text encoding. Her most recent publication is Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories, Models and Methods (2015). She has been the Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and involved in the TEI user community, with a special interest in modern and medieval manuscripts. She was the co-chair of the Programme Committee of the DH2019 conference, co-chair of the working group on digital editions of the European Network NeDiMAH and one of the scientists-in-chief for the ITN DiXiT.
Isto Huvila is Professor of Information Studies and Director of the doctoral programme in Information Studies at the Department of ALM (Archival Studies, Library and Information Studies and Museums and Cultural Heritage Studies) at Uppsala University in Sweden and is docent (~adjunct professor) in information management at Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. His major areas of research include information and knowledge management, information work, knowledge organisation, documentation, research data, and social and participatory information practices. Huvila received a MA degree in cultural history at the University of Turku in 2002 and a PhD degree in information studies at Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland) in 2006.
Salvatore Capasso is the Director of the Department of Human and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and a Professor of Economics at the University of Naples Parthenope, Italy. With over 100 scientific publications, he has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals. His research spans in the fields of Development Economics and Economic Growth, with a particular focus on the interplay between the underground economy, financial development, and the impact of corruption on economic performance. He also has expertise in cultural heritage studies and has overseen and coordinated numerous national and international research projects in the field. In recent years, he has extensively analysed the economic dynamics of Mediterranean countries and their cultural heritage landscapes. Additionally, he is actively involved in the governance of cultural institutions, serving on the board of the Neapolitan National Museum.
We are pleased to welcome them all in DARIAH and the Scientific Board and we look forward to fruitful collaborations!
