Carl G. Stahmer
Carl G. Stahmer is the Executive Director of the UC Davis DataLab: Data Science and Informatics, and Professor of English and Science and Technology Studies. He also recently assumed the helm as Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive, a digital initiative for which he previously served as Associate Director and Lead Developer for 18 years. Since the mid-1990’s, he has also held various developer and leadership roles at a variety of digital organizations and initiatives, including the English Short Title Catalog, NINES (the Networked Infrastructure for 19th Century Studies), ARC (The Advanced Research Consortium), and Project Quintessence, a text analysis portal for the Early English Books Online corpus. Over the course of his career, his digital work has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Microsoft Research, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation. His current research is focused on developing and implementing computational tools to facilitate the application of Analytical Bibliographic methods at scale in the study of historical text and printed images.