[Foundations] DH Leadership (DHSI 2026)

Description

This offering is intended for those in, or those considering, leadership roles in DH including leads for collaborative or team projects, academic programs, and administrative roles requiring a broad, deep understanding of DH in terms of resource allocation, professional advancement, integration with institutional mission, and strategic planning. Based on the model of the earlier ‘Chairs and Deans’ course, this offering establishes a cohort that [1] meets as a group for a number of dedicated presentation and discussion sessions throughout DHSI to survey and discuss pragmatic DH basics and leadership issues related to supporting DH and those who practice it, [2] allows those enrolled to audit any and all of the DHSI courses (as non-participatory observers, able to go from class to class), and [3] individually engages in consultation and targeted discussion with the instructors, speakers and consultants contributing to the course, and others in the group outside of course time during the institute.

This is a seminar style / audit-oriented course. Consider this offering in complement with, and / or to be built on by: DH for Chairs and Deans; Introduction to Project Planning and Management for DH: Issues and Approaches; Agile Project Management; Models for DH at Liberal Arts Colleges (& 4 Yr Institutions); Critical Pedagogy and Digital Praxis in the Humanities; Online Collaborative Scholarship: Principles and Practices (A CWRCShop); DH for Librarians; Professionalizing the Early Career Digital Humanist: Strategies and Skills; Social Knowledge Creation / Construction; Intersectional Feminist Digital Humanities: Theoretical, Social, and Material Engagements; and more!

Instructor(s)

Katherine D. Harris, Director of Public Programming, Outreach & Advocacy and Professor of Literature & Digital Humanities at San Jose State University, is a scholar of literature, technology, and pedagogy whose work spans 19th-century British literary annuals, digital editions, and the award-winning Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities. A leader in cross-disciplinary initiatives, she developed the H&A in Action program, chaired the California Open Educational Resources Council, and launched the DH@CSU consortium. She is currently helping establish SJSU’s Advanced Institute for Ethical Technologies, focusing on AI, while also advancing public humanities through projects like Public Art as Resistance. Her recent writing in the Debates in Digital Humanities series explores the challenges of teaching DH at teaching-intensive institutions and sustaining DH centers. You can find her as @triproftri on BlueSky or visit her WordPress site, https://triproftri.wordpress.com.

Glen Layne-Worthey is the Associate Director for Research Support Services in the HathiTrust Research Center, based in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences. Glen was Digital Humanities Librarian in the Stanford University Libraries from 1997 through 2019, and was the founding head of the Libraries’ Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR), and a founding member of the Stanford Literary Lab. Long active in the international Digital Humanities community, he hosted the international DH2011 conference at Stanford, and was co-chair of the Program Committee for DH2018 in Mexico City. He recently served as Executive Board Chair in the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), and as co-convener of its “DH in Libraries” Special Interest Group. He is co-editor (with Isabel Galina) of The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities and (with Lise Jaillant and others) of Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations, both published in 2025.

Ray Siemens is Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, in English with cross appointment in Computer Science, earlier Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing.  He directs the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, the INKE Partnership, and until very recently the Digital Humanities Summer Institute.  He was an early president of both the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. For further details, see https://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/.