Lauren Tilton
Director, Center For Liberal Arts And AI (CLAAI) at University of Richmond
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolLauren Tilton is a scholar-practitioner at the intersection of digital humanities, media studies, and computational methods, currently directing the Center for Liberal Arts and AI and serving as E. Claiborne Robins Professor at the University of Richmond. With 11 years of experience building computational humanities projects—especially in computer vision and media—she combines rigorous archival research with data-driven analysis, exemplified by her open-access book Distant Viewing (MIT Press) and the Distant Viewing Lab. She plays a leadership role in the field as president of both ADHO and ACH, driving international and US conversations about responsible AI and humanities research. Trained at Yale (PhD, American Studies), she brings a public-facing approach to scholarship—maintaining accessible tools, labs, and teaching that connect academia, museums, and broader audiences. An understated strength is her ability to translate complex image-analysis techniques into reproducible, pedagogical projects that broaden who gets to ask research questions of large visual corpora.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD American Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD American Studies at Yale UniversityBA American Studies, BA American Studies at University of Virginia
Github Skills (26)
linked-open-data9
digital-humanities9
api8
website-hosting8
historian8
network-analysis7
data-management7
hosting7
ckan6
python6
text-analysis6
jekyll4
data-mining4
open-source4
natural-language-processing3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nolauren/teaching
Oct 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:100 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
distant-viewing/addi
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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