Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Tarika Sankar is Digital Humanities Librarian 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 the Mass Incarceration Humanities Lab and In and Out of Place: Resource Extractions from Treaty Lands. Tarika is a critical scholar of Indo-Caribbean diaspora; race, gender, and sexuality; and digital humanities whose work interrogates the way culture-based models of identity reinforce racial insularity. She was a research assistant on the What Every1 Says digital humanities project and a community leader at the Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI). She is also a collective member of Ro(u)ted By Our Stories, a community-based digital archive of Indo-Caribbean oral histories. Her collaborative and individual research has been published in the Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies and the Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in English at the University of Miami in 2023.