Caroline Winterer is the director of the Stanford Humanities Center and a researcher with Mapping the Republic of Letters, a collaborative project at Stanford to digitally map some of the major European and American correspondence networks and libraries of the early modern scholarly world. Winterer is Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities, as well as Professor of History and (by courtesy) Classics at Stanford. She specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America in its transatlantic contexts.

Elaine Treharne is principal investigator of Global Currents: Cultures of Literary Networks, 1050-1900, an inter-institutional project for the cross-cultural study of literary networks in a global context through the integration of image-processing with social network analysis. Treharne is the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities and Professor of English and (by courtesy) German Studies, as well as the director of Text Technologies at Stanford. The medievalist scholar has published extensively on the material qualities and functions of Early British manuscripts and how studying these texts helps us understand the past and make connections with the present.

Karl Grossner’s work as a geographer and digital humanities research developer at Stanford includes his role as co-developer of ORBIS, an interactive geospatial network model of the Roman world that reconstructs the duration and financial cost of travel in antiquity. Grossner is also a research developer in Çatalhöyük Living Archive, an experimental web application in its pilot phase representing data from a Neolithic settlement in present-day Turkey. He received a Ph.D. in Geography at University of California, Santa Barbara in 2010, with research interests are in the representation of historical knowledge in computational models of place.

Jason Heppler’s interest in applying digital tools to historical research has led him to work as a researcher in Geography of the Post. Part of the Spatial History Project at Stanford’s CESTA, the project analyzes the development of the American West through digital mapping of 19th-century U.S. Post Office locations. Heppler is the Academic Technology Specialist in the Department of History at Stanford and worked as a project manager for the William F. Cody Archive at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. His digital projects include Framing Red Power: The American Indian Movement, the Trail of Broken Treaties, and the Politics of Media and contributions to the Digital History Project, a clearinghouse for information about digital history. Heppler is completing a Ph.D. in History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where his research focuses on the American West and digital history.