420 W. 118th St., Room 328
New York, NY 10027, USA
Citizenship:
United States of America and Republic of Lithuania (European Union)
Education
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- PhD, English Language and Literature, 2014
- Dissertation: “The Site of the Novel: Objects in American Realism, 1930–1940”
- Advisors: Lauren Berlant & Kenneth W. Warren
- AM, English Language and Literature, 2005
- AB, English Language and Literature, 2004
Appointments
- Research Data Librarian, Research Data Services, Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University, New York, NY 2018–present
- Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University, New York, NY 2015–2018
- Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Communication, Faculty of Creative Industries, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania 2014–2015
Publications
As reviewer:
As cartographer:
- “Hyderabad State-Bombay Presidency Frontier Zone c. 1900” in Beverley, Eric Lewis. “Frontier as Resource: Law, Crime, and Sovereignty on the Margins of Empire.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 55, no. 2 (2013): 241–272. doi: 10.1017/S0010417513000029.
- “Reorganization of Princely Hyderabad” in Datla, Kavita. The Language of Secular Islam: Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013.
- Multiple maps in Howard, Hugh. Mr. and Mrs. Madison’s War: America’s First Couple and the Second War of Independence. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2012.
- “Pakistan” in Ahmed, Manan. Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination. Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2011.
In popular/trade press (selection):
Honors & Grants
- New York University, New York, New York
- Department of English Committee on Events and Public Programming grant for “Mapping the Text 2018” ($3000) 2018
- Center for the Humanities Grants-in-Aid grant for “Mapping the Text 2018” ($2000) 2018
- Vilnius Gediminas Technical Univeristy, Vilnius, Lithuania
- European Commission Erasmus+ Staff Teaching Mobility Grant (€989) 2015
- European Commission Erasmus+ Staff Teaching Mobility Grant (€683) 2014
- Research Council of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania
- European Union Structural Fund Grant for Short-Term Scholarly Visit (€2,323) 2014
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Division of the Humanities Conference Grant ($400) 2014
- Walter and Carol Blair Dissertation-Year Fellowship ($20,000) 2012–2013
- Assistantship in Learning Technologies ($12,500 + €8,300 housing) 2011–2012
- Assistantship in Learning Technologies ($10,000 + €8,300 housing) 2010–2011
- Assistantship in Learning Technologies ($10,000 + €8,300 housing) 2009–2011
- General Honors, Honors in English Language and Literature 2004
Collaborations & Selected Projects
- Torn Apart / Separados.
- Rapid application building and data infrastructure; coordinated a team of six scholars, 2018.
- Mapping the Text, New York University
- Founder and Organizer of inaugural international conference. April 2017.
- xpMethod: Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research, Columbia University
- Contributor. Led pedagogy for “#PRMapathon” and designed Torn Apart / Separados. January 2016–present.
- NewYorkScapes, New York University
- Researcher. Architecture tester for Inquisite data platform, October 2015–present.
- Mapping Expatriate Paris: The Shakespeare and Company Lending Library Project, Princeton University, Joshua Kotin, PI.
- DH Advisor. Work with scholars to prototype geospatial visualizations. September 2016–present
- NYWalker.
- Author. Build an API server and front-end for letting researchers manually enter geospatial data from textual sources. Public beta, 2016.
- “Mapping Mughal India, 1500–1600 CE,” Columbia University, Manan Ahmed, PI.
- Lead Programmer. Designing data architecture for geospatial visualizations of 16th century texts. March 2017–present.
- NYCDH
- JavaScript mapping workshop instructor at NYCDH Week, February 2017–present
- The JavaScripting English Major.
- Author. Designing and implementing 15-session course that teaches humanities undergraduates JavaScript. 2017.