Scott B. Weingart

Hi! I’m Scott B. Weingart, a historian of knowledge who wears many hats. By day, I am the Chief Technology Officer at the Library of Virginia, where I help make its rich collections and services digitally accessible to all.¹ Concurrently, I serve as a resident scholar at Dartmouth and a research affiliate at the University of Edinburgh. In my off time, I’m a professional circus performer, an amateur father, and a hopeless adventurer.

Read about my work on my academic cv. To book a speaking engagement or my services as a consultant, email me.

My academic work wanders between categories, but here are some highlights:

• Books including The Network Turn (Cambridge University Press), The Historian’s Macroscope (Imperial College Press), and some earlier digital-only volumes.
• Research articles spanning folklore (Fortier prize winning), philosophy, data ethics, biodiversity, history, networks, data visualization, computer vision, science modeling, archaeology, and web archiving, among other disciplines.
• Popular press pieces, including Vice’s The Route of a Text Message.
• Research software and platform development, including the Sci2 Tool, the Network Workbench, the Digits platform, and others.
• Many web-based projects, including Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, the Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook, the ePistolarium, the Index of Digital Humanities Conferences, ETHOS, the Frankenstein Variorum, Shakespeare-VR, and the Internet Philosophy Ontology Project.
• Creative works, including an AI-assisted short story co-authored with Robin Sloan: the Center for Midnight.
• Public lectures and keynote addresses, including at HASTAC, the Digital Humanities Forum, and elsewhere.

Before my current role, I served the U.S. Government as Chief Data Officer and Director of Data and Evaluation at the National Endowment for the Humanities. I also previously directed tech-inflected scholarly programs at the University of Notre Dame and at Carnegie Mellon University. I’m privileged to have served in leadership roles in some amazing organizations, including the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and the Association for Computers and the Humanities.

See my curriculum vitae for a more exhausting exhaustive list and my google scholar for some greatest hits. Email me to get in touch.

¹ The Library of Virginia is a state agency that also wears many hats. It is the library at the seat of government, the state’s archive, a public humanities institution, a specialized research library, and a state agency supporting public libraries throughout Virginia.