Ellen Sebring

Ellen Sebring, PhD, has established herself as a transformative figure in digital humanities as the Creative Director of MIT's Visualizing Cultures project since its founding in 2002. Her multifaceted career spans art, design, and new media research, including significant roles as a Fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies and Post-Doctoral Associate at Duke University. Her innovative work includes collaborating with 28 scholars on over 50 content units, reaching more than 60,000 monthly visitors through the Visualizing Cultures platform. She has led the development of groundbreaking online courses, including the award-winning "Visualizing Japan" series, which has enrolled over 32,000 students. Her recent achievements include co-authoring the first history of CAVS and developing "March 1900," a virtual reality project exploring enhanced archival interaction. As lead developer for multiple MOOCs, including "Visualizing Imperialism & the Philippines" and "Visualizing the Birth of Modern Tokyo," she has pioneered new approaches to digital-native historical scholarship. Her research focuses on developing relational grammar of images and digital authoring tools that transcend traditional text-based historical format