Jennifer Isasi, Ph.D.
Dr. Jennifer Isasi is an Associate Research Professor of Digital Scholarship, the Director of the Digital Liberal Arts Research Initiative and Assistant Director of the Office of Digital Pedagogies and Initiatives. DLA establishes a research support hub to articulate and integrate digital research, methods and tools in projects in the humanities and social sciences. She also collaborates with the Center for Black Digital Research at PSU Libraries to organize hybrid events, provide training, and assist with Douglass Day.
Jennifer is also a member of the editorial board of the open access journal Programming Historian, where she currently serves as the Managing Editor of Programming Historian en español with editing, translations and original lessons, as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of ProgHist Ltd.
Prior to joining Penn State, Jennifer was a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation in Latin American and Latino/a Studies at the University of Texas Libraries, where she contributed to collections as data efforts, educational resources, and digital scholarship initiatives at LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. Isasi holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies with a specialization in Digital Humanities from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2017), a MA in the same field, a Certificate on Professional Qualification on Digital Humanities (2015) and a BA in English Philology (2011).
