I am Assistant Professor for the History and Theory of the Digital Humanities, Director of the Center for the Humanities and Machine Learning, and Principal Investigator of the AI Forensics Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My research and teaching focuses on the epistemology, aesthetics, and politics of artificial intelligence: I study how machine learning models represent culture and what is at stake when they do. My current book project, Vector Media (Meson Press/University of Minnesota Press, early 2026), writes the first comprehensive history and theory of vector space as a space of universal commensurability in contemporary machine learning systems. Find a complete list of my publications here, email me to get in touch, or say hi at one of these upcoming events:
Jan. 8-10: AHA 2026 Chicago ● Jan. 13: University of Amsterdam, Critical AI Seminar Series ● Mar. 16: University of Texas, Austin, Humanities in the Age of AI ● Mar. 9-11: New York University, Cultural AI: An Emerging Field ● Mar. 30: Emory University, Data and Decision Sciences Speaker Series
