Christopher Warren, Project Co-Founder and Director, is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. The author of Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 (Oxford University Press, 2015), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature, Warren’s interests include digital humanities, the history of international law, the literature and culture of early modern Britain, and diplomatic, legal, and commercial networks in early modern Europe. His articles have appeared in English Literary Renaissance, The Seventeenth Century, Digital Humanities Quarterly, The Programming Historian, and the European Journal of International Law. Warren directs Carnegie Mellon’s program in Humanities Analytics (HumAn) and the Pittsburgh Consortium of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Daniel Shore, Co-PI, is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. He is currently completing his second book, Cyberformalism, which argues that full-text searchable archives make possible new objects of philological inquiry. His first book was Milton and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge, 2012), and he has published articles on early modern literature and on digital humanities research in PMLA, Critical Inquiry,Modern Philology, Milton Studies, Milton Quarterly, and Early Modern Literary Studies.

Jessica Otis, Co-PI, is Carnegie Mellon's Digital Humanities Specialist in the University Libraries and Visiting Assistant Professor of History. After receiving both her MS in Mathematics and her PhD in History from the University of Virginia, she spent two years as a CLIR-DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Data Curation working on Six Degrees of Francis Bacon. Her research focuses on the cultural history of mathematics, cryptography, and plague in early modern England and her articles have appeared in the Journal of British Studies, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing.

Scott Weingart, Co-PI, is Carnegie Mellon University Library’s Program Director of Digital Humanities. His research focuses on early modern scholarly networks, and he has been a member of research teams at Oxford, Stanford, and Huygens ING in their pursuit of Republic of Letters digital projects. Weingart is a co-author of The Historian’s Macroscope (Imperial College Press), and his research has appeared in journals spanning history, philosophy, folklore, archaeology, digital humanities, informatics, and scientometrics.

John Ladd is the postdoctoral research fellow for Six Degrees at Carnegie Mellon and PhD Candidate in English Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. His research explores the many kinds of literary collaboration in seventeenth-century England, using social network analysis and actor-network theory. He has presented at conferences concerning book history, the digital humanities, and early modern studies, and he’s worked on a number of digital projects concerning scholarly editing, network analysis, topic modeling, and machine learning.