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HASTAC SCHOLARS
The HASTAC Scholars fellowship program recognizes graduate and
undergraduate students who are engaged in innovative work across the
areas of technology, the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences.
This group of select Scholars from institutions across the nation will
act as the eyes and ears of HASTAC's virtual network, bringing the work
happening on their campuses and in their region to international
attention. The Scholars will spend the year as part of a virtual
community of fifty students creating, reporting on, blogging, vlogging,
and podcasting events related to digital media and learning for an
international audience. The HASTAC Scholars will also orchestrate a
regular discussion forum on the HASTAC web site (www.hastac.org)
featuring their own ground-breaking research and interests alongside
those of leaders and innovators in the digital humanities, such as open
source scholar Christopher Kelty, and Director of the Office of Digital
Humanities for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Brett Bobley.
UCHRI is pleased to announce its HASTAC Scholars:
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Melissa Fabros
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Working her way up through California's Master Plan of Education, Melissa Fabros is currently a doctoral candidate in English at UC Berkeley. When not personally demonstrating choose-your-own-adventure pedagogy, she works
on poetry, intersections between the humanities and the sciences, and on a
dissertation that extends the pragmatic tradition into Cold War poetics.
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Lilly Irani
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Lilly Irani
is a PhD student in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine, working
at the intersection of everyday ubiquitous computing and interactive
and collaborative technologies, and feminist Science Technology
Studies. Her research interests include everyday privacy strategies in
collaboration, reconceptualizing "cross-cultural" encounters in
computing, and feminist research methodology. Some of her current
projects include learning about everyday privacy practice by studying
health activist communities and critically examining how "ethnography"
has been used and appropriated in design practice. Previously, she
designed user experiences at Google, focusing on early stage design
research, information architecture, and interaction design. She has an
M.S. in Computer Science specializing in Human-Computer Interaction,
and a B.S. in Computer Science with honors in Science, Technology, and
Society, both from Stanford University. She also is an editor at Ambidextrous Magazine, Stanford's magazine for and about design thinking.
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Hijoo Son
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Hijoo Son is a Ph.D. Candidate in modern Korean
history and culture at UCLA, writing her dissertation titled “Casting
Diaspora: Cultural Production and Identity Construction.” Her current
research interests include largely the history of Asian migration,
particularly explored through the visual culture of diasporic artistic
activities. Specifically, her dissertation examines comparatively
social processes involved in cultural production by Korean artists
within globalizing urban centers of the Pacific Rim, including China,
Japan, and the U.S. During her fellowship year as UCLA’s Junior Digital
Humanities Fellow, she conceived of a methodology for metadata
construction and visualizations of a digital archive including art
work, oral interviews, and video. Through a collaboration with Software
Studies Initiatives at UCSD, she is currently thinking through how to
visualize culture by exploring automated pattern recognition of visual
images. She is excited to teach on topics in digital humanities and the
“meta” implications and possibilities digital methods provides in the
examination of components analysis, genetics, mapping, archiving
strategies, and public history.
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