
Dr Maya Dodd
Digital Scholarship Visiting Research Fellow, June-August 2024
Home Institution: FLAME University
Dr. Maya Dodd currently serves as the Director of the FLAME Centre for Legislative Education and Research at FLAME University, Pune, India. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and subsequent post-doctoral fellowships at Princeton University and JNU, India. She teaches digital cultures in the Department of Humanities and has pioneered teaching Digital Humanities (DH) in the liberal arts at the undergraduate level, and also supervises doctoral students for DH study in India. Through the Ownership of Public History in India grant from the British Academy she has been exploring tools for cultural archiving via techniques from DH. She serves as an editor for the Routledge series on Digital Humanities in Asia. In collaboration, she is currently developing a new project on digitising Pune’s Architectural History from 1920-1980. She is also commissioning editor of Digital Humanities in Asia series. She serves on the global advisory board of the University of Rochester’s Humanities in the World program and on the editorial boards of the journal, Public Humanities published by Cambridge University Press and the Edinburgh University Press IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities . She is a founding director of the India based section-8 non-profit firm, Milli Archives Foundation. Since 2018, she has served to build digital humanities scholarship via the DHARTI collective, an ADHO constituent member since 2023. On "x" her handle is @mayadodd
Project title: Locating A New Historiography for India: Digital Archives and Public History
Locating new voices across archives in India opens up a study of how community knowledge archiving and digital relay are critical to the inclusion of historically minor voices in mainstream narratives. Now, more than ever, this is a genuine possibility in 21st century India-where diversity and digitality collide–that a new conception of digital cultures can emerge to produce untold stories. Since the rise of digital affordances, historiography also amplifies new voices across digital archives. Especially pertinent since the rise of decolonising modes of knowledge production, it is key that we locate andfurther sources for a new historiography.