• Call for Papers and Workshops: Comics and Machines Conference 2026

    A two-day international gathering rethinking comics as computational media and as engineered configurations entwined with automation, standardization, and information processing, and positioning comics-as-research as a way to generate knowledge through making. Inviting work on topics such as automation histories, changing formats and workflows, comics as data, human-machine collaboration, audience/user labor, data mining and recirculation, machine…

  • Assistant Professor – Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College

    The Black and Latino Studies Department at Baruch College, CUNY, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, beginning Fall 2026. We seek a scholar whose research and teaching examines the impact of technology on African diasporic communities through critical frameworks, algorithmic bias, artificial intelligence, and/or digital humanities in relation to African diasporic communities, histories, and…

  • Congratulations to Dr. Cathy N. Davidson: 2025 McGraw Prize Winner 

    The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education, one of the most prestigious honors in the field, recognizes innovation, inspiration, and impact in education. It is only fitting that this year’s award for Higher Education goes to Dr. Cathy N. Davidson, HASTAC’s Cofounder and Codirector, whose extraordinary career has reshaped how we imagine and practice…

  • Alondra Nelson and Cathy N. Davidson Discuss “AI and the Future of Higher Education”

    On May 8, 2025, the Futures Initiative (FI) and HASTAC co-hosted a timely and provocative event: AI and the Future of Higher Education. Held as part of the Futures Initiative’s 10th anniversary celebration, the conversation brought together two visionary thinkers—Alondra Nelson (Institute for Advanced Study and Center for American Progress) and FI Founder Cathy N.…

  • Digital Fridays 2025: Disrupt, Create, Connect: Rethinking Scholarship in the Digital Age

    “ There’s an entire other world we just haven’t created yet. Find the people who will help build this world that doesn’t exist yet. Let’s create it together.” Dr. Jade E. Davis “Every new technology that comes out has a particular viewpoint embedded within it. You could use it as intended, but I choose to…

  • Call for Fellows: 2025 Community Deep Mapping Institute

    We are excited to announce the establishment of our National Endowment for the Humanities Community Deep Mapping Institute as a hybrid 12-month virtual and in-person funded institute running from January 2025 through December 2025. Deep maps integrate information and representations about space, time, architecture, material culture, environment, and community knowledge into a spatially and temporally…

  • HASTAC’s New Interdisciplinary Area Directors and Steering Committee Members

    We at HASTAC are honored and delighted to announce that, after a competitive process, two dynamic, visionary new Interdisciplinary Area Directors will be joining the HASTAC leadership team. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Jade E. Davis (University of Iowa), HASTAC Director of Digital Learning Impact and Libraries, and Dr. Kevin Healey (University of New…

  • Inviting Proposals to CoDirect HASTAC

    Inviting Proposals to CoDirect HASTAC

    Expressions of interest due by Friday, August 2, 2024; full proposals will be invited thereafter. Dear Colleagues,  HASTAC is looking for a CoDirector and institutional partner, starting before the academic year begins. Please feel free to pass this on to anyone who might be interested.  An ideal HASTAC CoDirector understands what a social network can do, contributes…

  • Thank you, Jacque Wernimont (HASTAC CO-DIRECTOR, 2016-2024)

    Thank you Jacqueline Wernimont (HASTAC CoDirector, 2016-2024) for your powerful, imaginative, innovative, and generous leadership

  • Post-Doc for Mapping Racism & Resistance at UWM

    The Mapping Racism and Resistance project at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) invites applications for a 12-month Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Geospatial Analysis and the Digital Humanities. Mapping Racism and Resistance is a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)- funded, digital humanities and crowdsourcing project documenting racially restrictive covenants and Black resistance to them in…