API
This REST API provides programmatic access to all research aspects of this OCHRE site, subject to the same authentication and permissions checks that govern the web interface.
GET /api/user/
[ { "username": "tom", "first_name": "Tom", "last_name": "Lippincott", "homepage": "http://www.logical-space.org", "title": "Director, Associate Research Professor", "photo": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/media/user_photos/tom_XDH8rGF.jpg", "research_interests": "Compositional forces of cultural transmission", "location": null, "phone": null, "id": 2, "biography": "Dr. Lippincott received his PhD in Computational Linguistics from Cambridge University in 2015. His research focuses on computational models of the mechanisms that produce, transmit, modify, and interpret the cultural artifacts at the center of empirical humanistic scholarship.", "email": "tom.lippincott@jhu.edu", "url": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/api/user/2/", "creator_url": "", "permissions_url": "/api/user/permissions/2/" }, { "username": "sli159", "first_name": "Sabrina", "last_name": "Li", "homepage": "", "title": "Graduate Student", "photo": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/media/user_photos/sabrina.jpeg", "research_interests": "Narrative and modernism", "location": null, "phone": null, "id": 3, "biography": "Sabrina is a student in the joint BS-MS Computer Science program, having completed requirements for double-majoring in CS and Cognitive Science. She received the English Department's 2023 Senior Essay Prize for her essay titled 'Unstable Bodies, Unstable Texts'.", "email": "sli159@jhu.edu", "url": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/api/user/3/", "creator_url": "", "permissions_url": "/api/user/permissions/3/" }, { "username": "hsirin1", "first_name": "Hale", "last_name": "Sirin", "homepage": "", "title": "Assistant Research Professor in the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (AGHI)", "photo": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/media/user_photos/JHU_faculty_photo_sirin.jpeg", "research_interests": "Intellectual History, Multilingual NLP", "location": null, "phone": null, "id": 4, "biography": "I am an assistant research professor in the Center for Digital Humanities. I am also affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP). My research and teaching integrate computational and critical methods to explore questions about narrative and language in literary and historical documents. I focus on understanding the strengths and limitations of AI applications within cultural heritage domains.\r\n", "email": "hsirin1@jhu.edu", "url": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/api/user/4/", "creator_url": "", "permissions_url": "/api/user/permissions/4/" }, { "username": "messner1", "first_name": "Craig", "last_name": "Messner", "homepage": "http://www.cmessner.me", "title": "Lecturer (AGHI) and Assistant Research Scientist (CS)", "photo": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/media/user_photos/craig_nn1IdDn.jpg", "research_interests": "19th c. U.S. literature, language modeling, generation", "location": null, "phone": null, "id": 5, "biography": "I am a Lecturer in the CDH and Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Computer Science. My research combines machine learning with traditional literary scholarship, and has focused on metric learning, the adaptation of large language models to historical domains, and analyzing orthographic variation in literary works. I am broadly interested in the set of topics that emerge at the nexus of literary scholarship, linguistics, and computational language modeling, particularly literary theory, semantics, pragmatics, and artificial neural networks.", "email": "cmessne4@jhu.edu", "url": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/api/user/5/", "creator_url": "", "permissions_url": "/api/user/permissions/5/" }, { "username": "sbacker2", "first_name": "Sam", "last_name": "Backer", "homepage": "", "title": "Assistant Professor (History, University of Maine)", "photo": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/media/user_photos/sam_bBTQx7u.jpg", "research_interests": "Early American entertainment industry", "location": null, "phone": null, "id": 6, "biography": "Dr. Backer recieved his PhD in History from JHU in 2022, following several years of close involvement with the emerging digital teaching and research at the university. His interests include areas of early American entertainmant, such as Vaudeville and the music industry, and their relationships to change along other axes, such as the proliferation of railroads.", "email": "sbacker2@jhu.edu", "url": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/api/user/6/", "creator_url": "", "permissions_url": "/api/user/permissions/6/" }, { "username": "nwebb11", "first_name": "Nadejda", "last_name": "Webb", "homepage": "", "title": "Visiting Assistant Professor", "photo": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/media/user_photos/WebbNadejda_headshot.jpeg", "research_interests": "Equity, opportunity, and community organization", "location": null, "phone": null, "id": 7, "biography": "Nadejda I. Webb (she/her/they) is the Assistant Director of [LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure](https://www.lifexcode.org/) and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for Digital Humanities.\r\nShe recently founded the We Live Language (WLL) lab within Black Beyond Data, a Computational Humanities and Social Sciences ecosystem. The WLL lab is centered on the writings and spoken word of Afro-diasporic poets, authors, and philosophers, exploring the intricate relationship between language and power. \r\n\r\nWebb’s teaching and research interests encompass 20th and 21st-century African-American and Post-Colonial literature, as well as digital humanities, imaginaries, and belonging. \r\n \r\nWebb’s research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, Columbia University’s Center for Oral History, the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins, the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and Vanderbilt University. \r\n\r\nShe holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from CUNY Hunter College and a joint Ph.D. in English and Comparative Media Analysis and Practice from Vanderbilt.\r\n", "email": "nwebb11@jhu.edu", "url": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/api/user/7/", "creator_url": "", "permissions_url": "/api/user/permissions/7/" }, { "username": "lcelnik1", "first_name": "Leib", "last_name": "Celnik", "homepage": "", "title": "Graduate Student", "photo": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/media/user_photos/blurred_aj4GihO.jpeg", "research_interests": "History of physical sciences, art production and curation", "location": null, "phone": null, "id": 8, "biography": "Leib is a doctoral student in the Department of History of Science and Technology, where he focuses on the material culture of art production and conservation.", "email": "lcelnik1@jhu.edu", "url": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/api/user/8/", "creator_url": "", "permissions_url": "/api/user/permissions/8/" }, { "username": "jmj", "first_name": "Jessica", "last_name": "Marie Johnson", "homepage": "", "title": "Affiliate, Associate Professor", "photo": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/media/user_photos/jessica_0vbDRc5.jpg", "research_interests": "Women, gender, and sexuality in the African diaspora, histories of slavery and the slave trade, and digital history and new media", "location": null, "phone": null, "id": 9, "biography": "Jessica Marie Johnson is a faculty affiliate of the CDH and Associate Professor in the Department of History, and a former fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Johnson is a historian of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic African diaspora.", "email": "jmj@jhu.edu", "url": "https://cdh.jhu.edu/api/user/9/", "creator_url": "", "permissions_url": "/api/user/permissions/9/" } ]
