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Recognition

Grants, awards, institutional appointments, and named projects.

Grants

  • Schmidt Sciences HAVI — Co-Principal Investigator, “Archival Intelligence: Rescuing New Orleans' Endangered Heritage” (2025, one of 23 teams worldwide selected). Project site: archivalintelligenceai.org
  • IBM–Notre Dame Tech Ethics Lab — grant recipient. See Ethics.

Awards

  • A. Owen Aldridge Prize — for “Stalled Flight: Horatian Remains in Baudelaire's Le Cygne” (Comparative Literature Studies, 2002). See Mind.
  • NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship — for curriculum innovation, including the development of human-centered AI education programs at Kenyon. See AI in Higher Education.
  • Kenyon Senior Trustee Teaching Award.
  • ICML 2024 oral presentation (top ~2% acceptance) — for “Position: Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI.” See Governance.

Institutional appointments

  • Principal Investigator, NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium — representing the Modern Language Association (since 2024). See Governance and Ethics.
  • Director, Integrated Program in Humane Studies (IPHS) — Kenyon College. See AI in Higher Education.
  • Co-Founder and Co-Director, Human-Centered AI Lab, Inc. — Ohio nonprofit (with Jon Chun).
  • Co-Director, AI CoLab — Kenyon College (co-founded with Jon Chun in 2017 as the KDH Lab, subsequently renamed; the AI curriculum launched in 2016).

Named projects