Project Developers
Project Team
Danielle Mihram: USC Libraries: Digital Humanities Liaison | USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences;
French and Italian Subject Specialist, Collections, Teaching & Research, | French and Italian Department, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
Project Lead
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Research specialties: The Digital Humanities (with a focus on manuscripts and rare books) as well as the advancement of the Humanities, and the preservation of cultural heritage artifacts; French history and culture in the 17th and 18th centuries; General Education & Information Literacy; General Systems Theory; and Information Science
Melissa Miller: Head, Hoose Library of Philosophy; Humanities, Faculty Librarian (USC Libraries).
Project Development.
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Research specialties: Heritage Conservation; the contributions of the Digital Humanities (with a focus on manuscripts and rare books) to the advancement of knowledge, access, and diversity of cultural heritage material; Cognitive science approach to instructional design; and, Information science.
Micaela Rodgers: M.Phil. (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland), M.L.I.S. (University of California, Los Angeles)
Project Support: Information Specialist (USC Libraries) June 2019-June 2020;
Project Research, July 2020 to the Present.
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Research Specialties: Women writers and readers of the Long Eighteenth Century in the U.K. and Ireland; Reuniting the practices of Literary Analysis and Bibliography to enrich the fields of literature and of librarianship; the Digital Humanities as an important exemplification of Humanities scholarship, as it connects past, present, and future.
June-November 2019
Sabina Zonno: Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar (USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute).Project Research
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Research Specialties: Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts. Zonno is interested in the interplay between illuminated manuscripts, politics, economics, religiosity, and culture, and she is particularly intrigued by illuminated manuscripts made for and used by women in Medieval and Renaissance Europe.
Project Scalar Design and Consultants
Curtis Fletcher: Director, Ahmanson Lab, Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study (USC Libraries).
Digital Humanities and Digital Scholarly Communications Specialist.
Research Specialties: Media studies, visual studies, science and technology studies, and the history of technology. Fletcher specializes in multimedia and multimodal digital research and writing, with particular expertise in new models for authoring, credentialing, and publishing born-digital humanities scholarship.
Ruth Wallach, Associate Dean of Public Services (USC Libraries).
Research Specialties: Architectural history of Los Angeles, Public Art Studies, Heritage Conservation.
Project Partners
Frederic Clark: Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, USC Dornsife College of Letters Arts and Sciences.Contributing Scholar: Classical and intellectual historian, who specializes in the afterlife of classical antiquity in medieval and early modern Europe.
Research specialties: Classical reception, cultural and intellectual history, the history of the humanities, Latin literature and its afterlife, late antiquity, Renaissance humanism.
Alexandre Roberts: Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, USC Dornsife College of Letters Arts and Sciences.
Contributing Scholar: Graeco-Arabist and historian specializing in Byzantine and medieval Middle Eastern intellectual communities and their participation in the Classical tradition.
Research specialties: Byzantium and the Middle East, Greek and Arabic philology, classical traditions, intellectual history, history of science and religion.
Jay Rubenstein: Director, Center for the Premodern World, USC Dornsife College of Letters Arts and Sciences.
Contributing Scholar: MacArthur Fellow and Medieval Historian.
Research specialties: cultural and intellectual history of the High Middle Ages, with emphases on the Crusades, monasticism, biblical exegesis and prophetic thought.
(Courses at USC: The crusades, prophecy, heresy, and monastic thought that will, whenever possible, integrate the study of manuscripts and medieval Latin.)
Project Subject Consultants
Ross Scimeca: Emeritus Assistant University Librarian (USC Libraries).Research Specialties: Philosophy, Religion, Anthropology, and History of Science.
Kevin Robb: Department of Philosophy, USC Dornsife College of Letters Arts and Sciences. Robb’s research is focused on the exploration of ancient philosophy, Greek law and ethics, and literacy and orality studies.
Research Specialties: Ancient Philosophy, Greek Law and Ethics, Literacy & Orality.