Culture Index

A directory of people working across computational social science, digital humanities, human-computer interaction, and cultural computing.

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Aisha Bello

Master's student · University of Edinburgh

I work on Yoruba oral poetry and test whether speech models trained on multilingual audio can segment praise performances. I am currently building a small annotated corpus with community collaborators.

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Devon Okafor

PhD student · University of Michigan

I build tools that help historians trace how terms for race shifted across colonial newspapers. I am currently evaluating retrieval methods on OCR-noisy archives from the Caribbean.

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Jonas Weber

Research engineer · University of Vienna

I maintain infrastructure for digital humanities collections and study how scholars search image archives. My current work measures whether visual embeddings retrieve what art historians consider relevant.

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Mara Lindqvist

Postdoctoral researcher · Uppsala University

I study how nineteenth-century Swedish novels represent interiority, using computational models of narrative perspective. My current work tests whether character-level language models can distinguish free indirect discourse from narration.

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Priya Raghunathan

Research scientist · University of Toronto

I design interfaces for scholars who annotate large cultural collections, with a focus on disagreement. My current project visualizes where annotators disagree so that interpretive conflict becomes part of the analysis.

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Tomás Herrera

Lecturer · Universidad de Chile

I study how Spanish-language newspapers framed scientific authority in the early twentieth century. My current project compares topic models built from editorial and advertising pages.