I am a computer scientist who seeks collaborations and connections in the humanities and social sciences. My most satisfying research projects are collaborations: for example, I’ve worked with a philosopher (studying free and open source software), a psychologist (studying the creative process in programmers), and dramatic/literary historians (producing a digital transcription of a 19th-century actor's diary, published both as a physical book and a digital edition).

My current long-term project, American Android, is a dual history: how does the history of people accused of being artificial (in the US, usually women and black people) relate to the many (sometimes quasi-)scientific projects dedicated to creating “real” artificial people?