Quinn Dombrowski supports digitally-facilitated research in the DLCL as the Academic Technology Specialist.
She has been involved with digital humanities since 2004, working on a variety of projects including a medieval Russian database, a digital research environment for Bulgarian linguistics and folklore, a Drupal-based platform for developing digital catalogues raisonnés for art historians, and the financial papers of George Washington.
The Florentine Codex Project is a collaboration between researchers from Bucknell University and the Poetic Media Lab at Stanford University to produce a digital edition of Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (General History of the Things of New Spain), also known as the Florentine Codex, a monumental ethnographic work compiled by the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), often hailed as one of the most thorough accounts of a non-Western culture.
Emily Southerton is a PhD student in the Learning Sciences and Technology Design program at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. With a background teaching writing in public schools, she now studies the effects of digital technologies in K-12 classrooms, specifically those that amplify on-the-ground and historically underrepresented student voices. Emily is the creator of the Poet Warriors Project, a digital publishing platform that amplifies the work of student poets from low-income public schools across the country: www.poetwarriorsproject.com.
Research Interests:
K-12 writing education, writing technologies, social and self-publication on digital platforms, and educational equity