During spring 2015, two student assistants have joined Research IT. Taliah Mirmalek has been providing administrative support for the Digital Humanities at Berkeley initiative, and Maelia DuBois has been implementing technical improvements to the Research IT website.
Taliah Mirmalek is an undergraduate studying Rhetoric and Political Science, with a Public Policy minor. As someone whose work bridges the humanities and the social sciences, the critical conversation between them is the work with which she hopes to engage. She is currently pursuing an honors thesis in the Rhetoric Department that interrogates the sanctions regime as a technique of power. Inspired by intersectionality, she is also pursuing an independent study about the politics of policing mourning. When she is not thinking about either of these two projects, she enjoys doodling in the margins of newspapers (something about the paper quality), learning history as taught by artists, and coming up with alliterative nicknames.
Maelia DuBois is a first-year Ph.D. student in the history department at Berkeley. Her field is Late Modern European history, and she specializes in German 19th and 20th century imperialism and colonialism. She is involved in the Digital Humanities Working Group at Berkeley and hopes to embark on her own digital humanities project next year.
Student assistants are an important part of the developing Digital Humanities at Berkeley program, and additional positions will be open starting this summer. If you are, or know, an undergraduate or graduate student with technical skills who could support the digital humanities consulting program, or with administrative and communication skills who could assist with event planning, blogging, and outreach, please email a resume to digitalhumanities@berkeley.edu.