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DHRC members

Membership is open to all staff and students in the University of Galway. We encourage everyone with an interest in DH to join. To do so, please contact the Director.

We welcome enquiries from researchers interested in starting new projects at the University of Galway. You can contact the Director or any of our members whose research area aligns well with yours.

Steering Committee

	Director: Prof. Pádraic Moran (Classics) Interests: digital editions, online databases, network graphs, knowledge graphs, Linked Data, NLP. Links: pmoran.ie, GLOSSAM project
	Digital Humanities Manager: Mr David Kelly
	Seminars and Events: Prof. Erin McCarthy (English) Interests: cultural analytics, scholarly and digital editing, network analysis, humanities applications of AI. Link: STEMMA project
	Liaison: Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan (English) Interests: early modern studies, women's writing, online databases, network analysis. Link: RECIRC project
	Communications and Postdoc Representative: Dr Raluca Tanasescu (PIETRA) Interests: computational translation studies, NLP and network analysis, translation & creativity (multimodality and intermediality)
	Officer: Prof. David O’Shaughnessy (English) Interests: eighteenth-century theatre history, cultural history, quantitative humanities, textual editing. Link: Theatronomics project; The Censorship of British Theatre, 1737–1843; William Godwin's Diary.
	PhD Representative (to be appointed)

Academic staff

	Dr Conor Hayes (Computer Science) Interests: network analysis, data visualisation. Links: PANDEM-2, ROBUST
	Dr Aidan Kane (JE Cairnes School of Business and Economics) Interests: Irish economic history, geospatial data, machine learning, maritime economic history.
	Dr John McCrae (Data Science Institute/School of Computer Science) Interests: lexicography, multilingualism, under-resourced languages, Irish language, computational linguistics. Links: john.mccr.ae, ELEXIS
	Prof. Anne O’Connor (Italian) Co-director of the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice Link: PIETRA project
	Dr Colm Ó Cuaig (Gaeilge) Interests: digital lexicography, digital editions, text encoding, NLP. Links: Foclóir Mháirtín Uí Chadhain
	Dr Liam Ó hAisibéil (Gaeilge) Interests: distribution maps, databases, data visualisation, textual and linguistic analysis, digitisation and editing (for scholarly/critical editions).
	Dr Lindsay Reid (English) Interests: open educational resources, digital scholarly editing. Links: REBPAF, The Constant Maid.
	Dr Justin Tonra (English/CELT) Interests: distant reading, stylometry, digital scholarly editing, text generation, electronic literature. Links: EVERVERSE, Ossian Online

Postdoctoral researchers

	Dr Sudhansu Bala Das (Classics and Data Science Institute) Interests: NLP, manuscript studies, Digital Humanities, AI for heritage, network analysis Link: https://sudhansu1991.github.io/
	Dr Christian Schweizer (Classics) Interests: digital critical editions, manuscript databases. Link: Dicuil, Epistula Censuum

Doctoral researchers

	Anna Beatriz Dimas Furtado (PIETRA) Interests: linguistic data analytics, multilingual institutional data, computational humanities, natural language processing.
	Brenda Luies (REBPAF) Interests: digital scholarly editing, digital editions, open educational resources.
	Norma Owens (History) Interests: historical network analysis, information diffusion, GIS.

Other

Oksana Dereza (James Hardiman Library)
Interests: NLP for historical languages, cultural heritage, collections as data.
Links: https://huggingface.co/ancatmara, https://github.com/ancatmara