Our Team
An Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Spanning humanities, computer science, musicology, and archival studies across five institutions — united by the belief that AI can serve human culture rather than flatten it.
Katherine Elkins
Director of the Integrated Program in Humane Studies (IPHS) and co-founder of the world's first human-centered AI curriculum (2016). PI for the NIST U.S. AI Safety Institute. Author of The Shapes of Stories (Cambridge UP).
Jon Chun
Former Silicon Valley entrepreneur with deep expertise in AI systems, computational methods, and cybersecurity. Co-founder of Kenyon's human-centered AI curriculum and CoLab. Ten-year research partnership bridging technology and the humanities.
Supratik Mukhopadhyay
Brings cutting-edge AI and machine learning expertise with deep knowledge of the technical challenges in multimodal data processing, pattern recognition, and scalable computational systems — critical for building tools that work with diverse archival formats.
Lori Landay
Expertise in digital media, cultural studies, and the intersection of technology and the arts. Provides crucial insight into how musical and cultural archives can be meaningfully digitized while preserving the lived context and cultural significance of the materials.
Brent Hayes Edwards
A leading scholar of jazz history, African American cultural production, and archival theory. His deep knowledge of New Orleans' musical heritage and the complexities of cultural archives anchors the project's humanities research questions.
Extended Network & Contributors
Our work is strengthened by a growing community of archivists, alumni, students, and collaborators.
Jenna Nolt
Cultural Heritage Systems Advisor, Kenyon College. Expert in institutional repositories, digitization standards, and archival preservation.
Abigail Foster
National Gallery of Art & Kenyon alum. Published AI research at Kenyon; brings experience from heritage preservation at a major national institution.
Nava Bahrampour, Gwen Eisenbeis, Adrian Mangene, Andre McCloud & Hannah Sussman ('25)
Kenyon College undergraduate researchers trained in human-centered AI. Hannah Sussman serves as project fellow. Student research from the lab has been downloaded 90,000+ times from 4,000+ institutions worldwide.