Ashley R. Sanders, Ph.D.

Ashley R. Sanders is a multidisciplinary data scientist. She served as Vice Chair of the Digital Humanities Program at UCLA for more than six years and, prior to that, as Director of the Digital Research Studio at the Claremont Colleges. She holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialization in Digital Humanities and a B.S. in Mathematics and History. She specializes in leveraging advanced statistics, machine learning, data visualization, and dashboarding to transform data into compelling stories and actionable insights.

Her first book, Visualizing History’s Fragments: A Computational Approach to Humanistic Research is now available! (Link is to the publisher’s site; here is the link to Amazon page.)

Additional publications include “Silent No More: Women as Significant Political Intermediaries in Ottoman Algeria” (Current Research in Digital History, 2020), “Building a DIY Community of Practice,” in People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities outside the Center (December 2021), and a maturity framework for DH centers.

Ashley has also been awarded $243,000 funding as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Program (2023) in collaboration with Co-PI, Jessica Otis (George Mason University) for their project entitled, “The Mathematical Humanists.” The grant will fund a series of in-person, online, and asynchronous professional development workshops to be hosted by George Mason University on statistics, graphs and networks, linear algebra, and discrete mathematics methods that inform computational humanities methodologies such as network analysis, and text mining and analysis.