Graduate Community of Digital Scholars

The Graduate Community of Digital Scholars is a joint program of the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, in collaboration with the Laney Graduate School.

The community offers two program tracks--the Digital Dissertation Scholars Program and the HASTAC Scholars Program. Both tracks provide funding and training for graduate students seeking to develop knowledge and skills in digital scholarship and pedagogy.

2021 - 2022 COHORT

HASTAC Scholar

Amelia Golcheski

Amelia Golcheski is a doctoral student in History. Her research examines women's caregiving labor in Appalachian labor movements at the end of the 20th century. Specifically, she looks at how women's unpaid caregiving labor during coal conflicts shifted to paid labor in caregiving professions as coal declined in the region. In addition to graduate work, Amelia is an Editorial Associate and the Social Media Manager at Southern Spaces. Prior to coming to Emory, Amelia received a Master's in Public Humanities from Brown University. As a HASTAC Scholar, she plans to create an archive and exhibit to document Emory employees' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

HASTAC Scholar

Brittany Landorf

Brittany Landorf is a doctoral student in the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University. Her work explores questions of Islam, gender, and sexuality, with a certification in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Prior to her studies at Emory, she received a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and completed a Fulbright English Teaching Fellowship in Turkey. Brittany's research examines the co-constitutive nature of gender and religion, with a specific focus on masculinities, in North African Islamic mysticism. She is particularly interested in the interplay of textual constructions of gender and everyday performance, interweaving textual and ethnographic methods. As a HASTAC scholar, she will deepen her understanding of the ways in which everyday religious practices increasingly engage and take place in digital spaces.

DDSP Scholar

Alexis Mayfield

Alexis Mayfield is a roun’ da way jawn, scholar, and artist committed to honoring the inherent brilliance of Black girls, women, and femmes. She is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the English department at Emory University, where she explores pleasure as epistemology and play as methodology and their inherency to Black femme’s survival and freedom. In her art, Alexis utilizes play, experimentation, and ancestral connection to make meaning of her senses.

DDSP Scholar

Faiza Rahman

Faiza Rahman is a PhD candidate in Islamic Civilizations Studies. She is also a graduate certificate student in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Faiza’s dissertation is about Islamic beliefs and practices regarding menstruation and menstrual hygiene. Her project is ethnographically based in low-income urban communities of Pakistan. Apart from research, Faiza is committed to causes of diversity and has served as EDGE ambassador, and also on the Emory International Council. In her previous life, she lived and studied in Singapore. She holds an MA from the National University of Singapore (NUS), and an undergraduate degree from LUMS, Pakistan.

HASTAC Scholar

Alicia Rodriguez

Alicia Doyen-Rodriguez is a doctoral student in the French and Italian Department as well as an ECDS intern at Emory University. Prior to her studies at Emory, she received a Masters in English and Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne–Paris IV university in Paris, France, where she completed an ERASMUS yearlong program at the University of Exeter, UK. Her dissertation "Women in Motion: Remapping Francophone Narratives in a Digital Space" focuses on creating new representations of space thanks to digital maps of fictional female characters in Caribbean novels. Her most recent work in progress explores the connection between land degradation in Guadeloupe and the oppression of female bodies. As a HASTAC scholar, Alicia intends to design new digital pathways between mapping, teaching, and literary analysis.

HASTAC Scholar

Tyler A. Tennant

Tyler A. Tennant is a doctoral student in English and the Associate Editor of Post45’s Contemporaries series. Prior to Emory, he received his MA from the University of Chicago and his BA from the University of Oklahoma. His teaching focuses on queer/trans and literary theory, digital humanities, and the conjuncture of race, gender, disability, and class. His research interrogates the impact that algorithmic-based capitalisms, precarity/austerity, and speculative financialization have on queer/trans movements and becomings. As a HASTAC scholar, he aims to explore how digital pedagogy and research can be fundamentally reconceptualized through a framework of communal collaboration.