Anne Hunnell Chen

Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Art History, Experimental Humanities

Biography: Anne Hunnell Chen specializes in the art and archaeology of the globally connected Roman world, and is committed to exploring how low-barrier Linked Open Data (LOD) can be harnessed not only to provide more equitable access to archaeological data in the digital realm, but also to empower stakeholder audiences as collaborative curators. She is the director and co-PI of the International [Digital] Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA), an archaeological data accessibility project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, whose documentation efforts are aimed at sharing-out workflows that help to overcome disciplinary data silos and work to dislodge enduring impacts of colonialism (access inequalities; epistemic biases). Chen serves as the annotations activity cocoordinator and network cochair for the international Pelagios Network, a role that coordinates the international pooling of knowledge and resources among Linked Open Data researchers in the historical and cultural heritage sectors. She publishes on Roman, Persian, and digital humanities topics and teaches equally wide-ranging coursework.
Website: https://duraeuroposarchive.org
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Location: Fisher Annex