Biography


A Photo of Jennifer Guiliano walking in Chicago
Dr. Guiliano walking down the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, Illinois.

Dr. Jennifer Guiliano is a white academic living and working on the lands of the Myaamia/Miami, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, Wea, and Shawnee peoples. She currently holds a position as Professor in the Department of History and affiliated faculty in both Native American and Indigenous Studies and American Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis.

She received a Bachelors of Arts in English and History from Miami University (2000), a Masters of Arts in History from Miami University (2002), and a Masters of Arts (2004) in American History from the University of Illinois before completing her Ph.D. in History at the University of Illinois (2010).

She is the author of Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America (Rutgers University Press, 2015), A Primer for Teaching Digital History: 10 Design Principles (Duke University Press, 2022), and is co-editor (with Roopika Risam) of Reviews in Digital Humanities, DevDH.org (with Simon Appleford), and Digital Humanities Workshops : Lessons Learned(with Laura Estill; 2023). She is also completing a co-authored work Getting Started in the Digital Humanities (Wiley & Sons).

She received the Digital Scholarship Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh in 2022, Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities at University of Guelph in 2020-2021, and has received more than $3.6 million dollars in funding for her research from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and others over the course of her career.

Dr. Guiliano served on the Executive Council (2013-2016) and as president of the organization (2016-2018) for the Association for Computing in the Humanities (ACH). She founded with Trevor Muñoz the Humanities Intensive Teaching + Learning Initiative (HILT) which ran from 2013-2020.

She has served as a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant and Program Manager at the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (2008-2010) and as Associate Director of the Center for Digital Humanities (2010-2011) and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of South Carolina. She most recently held a position as Assistant Director at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland where she also served as an adjunct instructor in the Department of History and the Digital Cultures program in the Honor’s College.

Dr. Jennifer Guiliano seated in a leather chair wearing a grey sweater and black skirt in front of a brick wall.
Dr. Jennifer Guiliano, December 2023.
Dr. Jennifer Guiliano wearing a black shirt with a grey cowl neck sweater before a yellow wall. She has brown hair and brown eyes.
Dr. Jennifer Guiliano, 2013.

Jennifer Guiliano

Indiana University Indianapolis

Department of History

532 Cavanaugh Hall

425 University Blvd

Indianapolis IN 46219

email: last name@iu.edu