Professor Leif Isaksen

PROFESSOR IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

Professor Leif Isaksen is Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Exeter, based in the Digital Humanities Lab, and affiliated with the Department of Classics and Ancient History. He is also the Digital Humanities Theme Lead for the Institute of Data Science and AI (IDSAI).

Leif’s main interests are spatial and temporal representation in the humanities – both in the ancient world and the modern one – and the paradigm of Linked Open Data to relate online resources about the past. This is most notably as director of several projects associated with the Pelagios Network, including the development of the Recogito annotation platform. In recent years he directed the Cluny Hill Dig.

Leif has been involved with a number of Humanities and Digital Humanities activities and organisations worldwide, including CAA, EADH and ISHMap, and was Executive Board Chair of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) in 2019-2021. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and a former Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.

Dr. Travis G. Coan

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

Dr. Travis G. Coan is an Associate Professor in Computational Social Science at the University of Exeter. He is co-director of Climate Communication and Data Science (C3DS) and is a member of the Centre for Computational Social Science (C2S2). 

While Travis has published on a wide range of topics, his core research examines questions in the areas of environmental and political communication. His methodological interests include Bayesian statistics, natural language processing, and computer vision. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Climatic Change, Global Environmental Change, Electoral Studies, International Studies Quarterly, and Social Networks, among others.

Dr. Charlotte Tupman

SENIOR LECTURER IN CLASSICS AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

Dr Charlotte Tupman is a member of the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Religion & Theology and the Digital Humanities Lab (DH Lab), with research interests in Latin Epigraphy. She is also an affiliated academic in the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. As one of the authors of the EpiDoc Guidelines she is actively involved in the collaborative development of international standards for the encoding and publication of inscriptions and papyri. She has worked in the fields of Digital Humanities and Digital Classics for more than a decade, specialising in the analysis and digital publication of ancient textual materials.

As Director of Global Engagement Charlotte leads her department’s international activities, and also contributes to our external partnerships in the DH Lab. In collaboration with colleagues at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, she leads an initiative for UG students to engage in the research and interpretation of digital archives.