Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Khanh Vo is Digital Humanities Specialist at the Brown University Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS). She is the project manager and CDS lead for several faculty-driven projects, such as “Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past” and “Lives and Pseudonyms of Literary Scholars, 1849–1949.” She is a historian, digital humanist, and educator in American history, digital and spatial humanities, STS, games studies, and material culture. Her primary research explores machine labor as it pertains to questions of race, gender, and design. Her research and collaborative writings have been published in Zoomland: Exploring Scale in Digital History and Humanities and the Journal of Digital Media Management (Walter de Gruyter, 2023). She was the 2022–23 Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Institute and Critical Digital Humanities Initiative. She also served as chair for the ASA Digital Humanities Caucus and is a digital projects reviewer editor for the American Quarterly. She completed her doctorate in American Studies in 2021 at the College of William & Mary.