Nomination for Ordinary Member (2 year term): Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller

Dr Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the Australian National University. She focuses on interdisciplinary experimentation into ways digital technologies can support and diversify research in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and in relation to public culture (including Web Science, and the GLAM sector). She is a CI on two ARC projects (Nyingarn: a Platform for Primary Sources in Australian Indigenous Languages, led by University of Melbourne, and Mapping Print, Charting Enlightenment, led by University of Western Sydney). Terhi is a Research Fellow (2019-2021) of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA; a member of the Territory Records Advisory Council, Australian Capital Territory Government; and a HASS DEVL Champion (2018) at eResearch South Australia. She’s a member of the Steering Committee for Linked Pasts (an international colloquium); and Chair of the Advisory Board for Conductive Music (a not-for-profit in the UK). Her book “Linked Data for the Digital Humanities” is under contract with Routledge. She’s currently working on Liberal Sydney, investigating the development of liberalism in Australian politics.

Nomination for Ordinary Member (3 year term): Shawn Ross

Shawn A Ross (Ph.D. University of Washington, 2001) is a Professor of History and Archaeology and the Director of Digitally Enabled Research at Macquarie University. Prof Rossʼs research interests include digital archaeology, the history and archaeology of pre-Classical Greece, oral tradition as history, the archaeology of Thrace, and the application of information technology to research. Since 2009, Prof Rossʼs work has focused on fundamental archaeological research in Bulgaria, where he co-supervises the Tundzha Regional Archaeology Project, a large-scale archaeological survey and palaeoenvironmental study. Since 2012 Prof Ross has also directed the Field Acquired Information Management Systems (FAIMS) project, which develops data capture and management systems for field research. He is also involved with two other field projects in Australia and one in Greece. Previously, Prof Ross worked at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), the American University in Bulgaria (Blagoevgrad), and William Paterson University (Wayne, New Jersey).

Nomination for Ordinary Member (2 year term): Tyne Daile Sumner

Dr Tyne Daile Sumner is an ARC Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her research operates at the intersection of literary studies, surveillance studies, and digital humanities. She has led national digital research infrastructure projects, taught a wide range of digital HASS tools across Australia, and is passionate about interdisciplinary community building and engagement. She is currently Cultural Data Research Fellow on an ARC LIEF project, The Australian Cultural Data Engine for Research, Industry and Government (ACD-E) and co-founder of two research networks at the University of Melbourne: The Humanities and Diverse eResearch Scholars network (HADES) and the ‘Art, AI and Digital Ethics’ collaborative at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics (CAIDE). Her first monograph is Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance (Routledge 2021), which presents new approaches to the study of surveillance with inroads to fields including political science, information science, literature, and digital humanities.

A message from Simon Musgrave, aaDH Secretary:

The terms of several members of the aaDH Executive Committee are concluding.

aaDH President Professor Paul Millar announced his decision to step down at the end of the 2021 DHA conference with one year left of his term, and the role has been filled by Associate Professor Rachel Hendery. The committee thanks Paul Millar for his service to the association.

The Executive Committee, as specified in the Rules of the association, consists of nine members, with the possibility of additional members being co-opted. Such an appointment had been in place, but at this election we will return to the nine-member model.

There are currently six vacancies to be filled with terms starting in 2022:

• Vice-President (3 years, 2022-24)
• Communications Manager (3 years, 2022-24)
• Treasurer (2 years, 2022-23)
• 1 x Ordinary Member (3 years, 2022-24)
• 2 x Ordinary Members (2 years, 2022-23)

Nominations for these positions are now open.

The Rules of the association relevant to this process are:

25 Election of officers and ordinary members of the committee

25.1 To be considered valid, nominations of candidates for election as officers of the association or as ordinary members of the committee must be

25.1.1 made to the secretary by electronic transmission; and

25.1.2 transmitted to the secretary not less than 7 days before the date fixed for the holding of the annual elections; and

25.1.3 endorsed by at least one current officer of the association or ordinary member of the committee.

25.2 A candidate may nominate for one or more vacant positions on the committee.

25.3 If insufficient nominations are received to fill all vacancies on the committee, the candidates nominated will be deemed to be elected and further nominations may be received at the annual general meeting.

25.4 If the number of nominations received is equal to the number of vacancies to be filled, the persons nominated shall be deemed to be elected.

25.5 If the number of nominations exceeds the number of vacancies to be filled, a ballot must be held.

In relation to rule 25.1.3, I will endorse the nomination of any member in good standing (in the absence of endorsement from another committee member).

In relation to rule 25.5, if a ballot is necessary, it will be run electronically by OUP. To vote in such an election, it is necessary to be a member of the association in good standing (i.e., a financial member).

Although rule 25.1.2 allows for nominations up to 7 days before the election date, it would greatly assist OUP to have details of as many nominees as possible earlier than that date. In addition to sending your formal nomination to me, please also send a short candidate’s statement (ca. 150 words) which will be made available online.

The election will take place between January 31 2022 and February 4 2022; members eligible to vote will receive details from OUP before the election opens. Prospective candidates are welcome to contact Simon Musgrave or Tully Barnett (aaDH communications manager) at any time.

At the end of #DHA2021 – Digital Humanities Australasia, aaDH’s biennial conference – Paul Millar announced the end of his term as aaDH’s President after three years of service in the role and the hosting of a supremely successful conference. Millar has one year left on his term and, in accordance with the aaDH’s constitution, the Executive Committee called for nominations to fill the role from within the committee. As a result of this process, Associate Professor Rachel Hendery was elected as the President of aaDH.

Here’s some information about the new President of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities:

I am Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at Western Sydney University. My background is in linguistics, and I work on language contact and change, particularly in the Pacific, and how new digital tools and techniques allow us to research these in new ways. My research interests include historical linguistics, contact linguistics, typology, mapping, simulation, virtual reality, and data visualisation.

From 2011-2014 I held an Australian Research Council (ARC) postdoctoral fellowship to conduct research on the variety of English spoken on Palmerston Island, in the Cook Islands. I am currently a CI on several further ARC-funded projects: Howitt and Fison’s Archive: Insights into Australian Aboriginal Language, Kinship and Culture’ led by Helen Gardner at Deakin University, Mapping Print; Charting Enlightenment, led by Simon Burrows at Western Sydney University, Waves of Words: Mapping and modelling the history of Australia’s Asia-Pacific ties, and Seeing Yourself in Digital Cultural Heritage, both of which I lead at Western Sydney University.

I am also a member of the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, the Centre of Excellence for Language Dynamics and the Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. I co-lead the Intergener8 Living Lab at Western Sydney University. I am the Treasurer for the Australasian Association of Digital Humanities and the NSW coordinator for the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad.

The aaDH would like to thank Professor Paul Millar for his leadership during difficult times and wishes him well on his well-earned sabbatical.