Jacqueline Wernimont

Jacqueline Wernimont is Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement and an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Dartmouth College.

She is also a co-Director of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaborative) and runs the Digital Justice Lab at Dartmouth. Her books include Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media and the co-edited Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities (with Elizabeth Losh). As a digital media scholar who specializes in mathematic and computational media and their histories, her work is synthetic and bridges the humanities, sciences, and arts.

Sub-specialties: Human security in 21st century techno-culture, Quantified self culture – both current and historical, Collective commemoration through body counts, History of mortality statistics and actuarial tables, Long term oppression of communities through uneven technology uptake, also known as “network effects”, History of “big data” and knowledge production, Digital Humanities, Online misogyny, Online Harassment & Free Speech