Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute
Archival Intelligence: Rescuing New Orleans’ Endangered Cultural Legacy
2025
External research support for Archival Intelligence.
Recognition
Recognition
Selected external support, awards, teaching honors, invited distinctions, and institutional roles.
This is a curated record. Research describes the work itself; Speaking and the CV carry fuller histories.
External funding
Grants & Research Support
Notre Dame–IBM Technology Ethics Lab Grant
2024
Research support for “How Well Can GenAI Predict Human Behavior?”
Scholarly honors
Awards & Fellowships
Whiting Fellow
Comparative literature and philosophy of literature
Whiting Summer Research Award
Scholarly research
A. Owen Aldridge Prize in Comparative Literature
Baudelaire and Horace
Andrew Mellon Fellowship
Graduate research
German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship (DAAD)
University of Regensburg
Genevieve McEnerney Fellowship
University of California, Berkeley
Pedagogical honors
Teaching Honors
NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship
Kenyon College
Senior Faculty Trustee Teaching Excellence Award
Kenyon College
Teaching Effectiveness Award
University of California, Berkeley
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
University of California, Berkeley
Selected invitations
Selected Invited Recognition
Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar METC Conference
2025
Invited keynote on AI, narrative, and clinical judgment.
OpenAI Higher Education Forum
2025
Selected faculty invitation for OpenAI’s higher-education forum in San Francisco.
Carleton College Day of Digital Humanities
2024
“Human-Centered AI: High-Impact Change from the Classroom to the Lab.”
International Conference on Machine Learning
2024
“Position: Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI” was selected for oral presentation.
External responsibility
Major Institutional Roles
NIST CAISI AI Consortium
2024–present
Elkins co-leads the team representing the MLA in the federal consortium.