Quinn Dombrowski

Quinn Dombrowski (they/them) is the Academic Technology Specialist in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and in the Library, at Stanford University. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2018, Quinn’s many DH adventures included supporting the high-performance computing cluster at UC Berkeley, running the DiRT tool directory with support from the Mellon Foundation, writing books on Drupal for Humanists and University of Chicago library graffiti, and working on the program staff of Project Bamboo, a failed digital humanities cyberinfrastructure initiative.

Quinn has a BA/MA in Slavic Linguistics from the University of Chicago, and an MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since coming to Stanford, Quinn has supported numerous non-English DH projects, started the Textile Makerspace / YarnLab, taught courses on non-English DH, developed a tabletop roleplaying game to teach DH project management, and started the Data-Sitters Club, a feminist DH pedagogy and research group focused on Ann M. Martin’s 90’s girls series “The Baby-Sitters Club”. Quinn has served as co-President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.

Quinn regularly teaches DLCL 203: Data Visualization with Textiles,  DLCL 204: Digital Humanities Across Borders (a non-English digital humanities class) and DLCL 205: Project Management and Ethical Collaboration for Humanists, along with DLCL 201: Digital Humanities Practicum for students working on their own projects.