Our Team

Our team has cumulatively included a hundred faculty, postdoctoral, graduate student, undergraduate, and staff researchers at our project’s institutions (UC Santa Barbara, California State University–Northridge, and U. Miami) and other institutions.

See also a searchable and sortable table of our participants, with detailed information about their participation in particular academic years, summer research camps, and research teams.

WE1S Directors

  • Alan Liu, Principal Investigator; Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara
  • Jeremy Douglass, Co-PI; Associate Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara
  • Scott Kleinman, Co-PI; Professor of English, California State University, Northridge
  • Lindsay Thomas, Co-PI; Assistant Professor of English, University of Miami

Postdoctoral Scholars

Project Managers

  • Samina Ali, Project Manager 2017-2018, PhD Student in English, University of Miami
  • Rebecca Baker, Project Manager 2019-2020; PhD Student in English, UCSB
  • Ashley Hemm, Project Manager 2019-2020; PhD Student in English, University of Miami
  • Giorgina Paiella, Project Manager 2018-2019; PhD Student in English, UCSB
  • Tarika Sankar, Project Manager 2018-2019; PhD Student in English, University of Miami

Additional Research Faculty & Staff

  • Mauro Carassai, WE1S Research Faculty Associate; Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies, California State University, Northridge
  • Kimberley Teaman Carroll, WE1S Research Faculty Associate; Lecturer in English and Asian American Studies, California State University, Northridge
  • Greg Janée, WE1S Sustainability and Usability Advisor; Director, Data Curation Program, UCSB Library
  • Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Colleen Tripp, Assistant Professor of English, California State University, Northridge

Research Assistants (cumulative)

Research Assistants (graduate students except as noted)

UCSB

UM

CSUN

Collaborating Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology (graduate students)