As a Digital Anthropologist, I explore the intersection of culture, technology, and transformation design through research and teaching in the USA and Europe. I am also actively engaged in applied research, focusing on socio-cultural aspects of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning(AI/ML).

I am the author of  Amongst Digital Humanists: An Ethnographic Study of Digital Knowledge Production (2015), and a selection of my peer-reviewed publications includes “Rethinking Monitoring for Cloud Environments: BMC Software AIOps Case Study” (Nature, 2023); “Representing the Absent: The Limits and Possibilities of Digital Media and Preservation” (University of Belgrade, 2022); “Black Boxes and True Color—A Rhetoric of Scholarly Code” (Cambridge Open Book Publishing, 2020), “Digital Workflow in Qualitative Research” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).; Developing Research Tools for Voices from the Field (dh+lib special issue Library DH, 2016);  Personal Library Curation (The John Hopkins University Press, 2014); Working in Virtual Knowledge, (MIT Press, 2013); The Immersive Hand (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); Cultures of Formalization (Palgrave Macmillan,2012); Researchers’ information uses in a digital world (Wiley, 2012); Digital Rhetoric and Public Discourse (Sage, 2008).

On the academic side, my professional engagements include the roles of a Professor of Research Methods at the Illinois Institute of Technology School of Design; Andrew W. Mellon Research Anthropologist at the Pennsylvania State University; assistant professor of Culture and Technology at Roskilde University in Denmark; senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I taught in a variety of subject areas including Digital Culture, Digital Humanities, User Research Methods,  Cultural Heritage in Digital Environments, Identity in Digital Environments, Digital Cultural Production, Ethnographic and Visual Research Methods. I supervised problem-oriented student projects, as well as M.A. and PhD work in digital culture and communication, as well as user research methods.

On the applied research side, I’ve been engaged as the Lead Research Analyst for the Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations suite of products at BMC Software; Senior Researcher for the Clinical Team developing a multi-million-dollar suite of medical applications for the Walgreens Boots Alliance; Research Consultant analyzing effectiveness of the world’s largest DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) public key-signing service;  User Research Consultant for the French and Italian Renaissance Paleography at the Newberry Library. 

I am a graduate of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. I hold a Ph.D. in Communication/New Media Studies, an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, and B.A. degrees in Cultural Anthropology and in Music.