Biography:

Jim Casey is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned his PhD in English from the University of Delaware and held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University. Previously he was an assistant professor of African American Studies, History, and English at Penn State, where he co-founded the Center for Black Digital Research/DigBlk.

Dedicated to collaborative scholarship, his work spans current and emerging areas of Black digital humanities and public humanities. Recent publications and ongoing projects focus on critical data studies, archives, and crowdsourcing. He is past president of the Research Society for American Periodicals and an elected lifetime member of the American Antiquarian Society. Personal site: jim-casey.com.