Alison Langmead

Alison Langmead holds a joint faculty appointment as Clinical Professor between the Department of History of Art and Architecture in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship in the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. She serves as Director of the Visual Media Workshop, where she directs collaborative efforts to innovate digital methods for scholarly production, dissemination, and preservation in visual and material culture studies. Langmead earned her PhD from Columbia University and MLIS from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on digital humanities, particularly the mindful application of digital methods in art history and architecture, the historical relationship between information management practices and digital computing, digital sustainability, formalization of non-textual information, history of computing, and history of information management professions. She also acts as DSAM Graduate Advisor and principal contact for the Digital Humanities Research at Pitt initiative.

Langmead received the 2023 Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring. She has secured grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities for projects such as “Teaching Art History with AI” and workshops on sustainability for digital projects, from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Sawyer Seminar “Information Ecosystems” and “Reparative Histories of Art and Architecture,” and from the J. Paul Getty Foundation for “Art History + Network Science.” Key publications include “Images of Medieval Art and Architecture and the Creation of the World Wide Web” (2024, with Alison Stones), “Network Analysis + Digital Art History: A Roundtable on a Collective Scholarly Experience” (2024), “Teaching the Digital Humanities to a Broad Undergraduate Population” (2023, with Annette Vee), “Leonardo, Morelli, and the Computational Mirror” (2021, with Christopher J. Nygren, Paul Rodriguez, and Alan Craig), “Pointers and Proxies: Thoughts on the Computational Modeling of the Phenomenal World” (2020, with David Newbury), and “Forms of Equivalence: Bertillonnage and the History of Information Management” (2020, with Josh Ellenbogen). She has led digital projects including the Socio-Technical Sustainability Roadmap, InfoEco Cookbook, and Itinera, and curated the exhibition Data (after)Lives in 2016. Langmead teaches courses in digital culture and the digital humanities, primarily at the graduate level.

Professional Email: adlangmead@pitt.edu