The people behind the project
Archival Intelligence is an independent research initiative bringing together researchers and collaborators from Kenyon College, Berklee College of Music, Louisiana State University, Columbia University, the New Orleans Jazz Museum, and other partners, with support from Schmidt Sciences HAVI.
Project leadership
Katherine Elkins
Professor at Kenyon College and Co-Founder of the Human-Centered AI Lab. Works on AI, narrative, cultural preservation, and questions of judgment and human values.
Jon Chun
Co-Founder and Director of the Human-Centered AI Lab. Works on AI systems, computational methods, technical infrastructure, and project research design.
Senior research collaborators
Supratik Mukhopadhyay
Works on multimodal machine learning, pattern recognition, and scalable systems for diverse archival formats.
Lori Landay
Studies digital media, museum interfaces, and how technology represents musical and cultural materials.
Brent Hayes Edwards
Works on jazz history, African American cultural production, translation, and archival theory.
Ongoing research team
Ty Kushi
Maps archival datasets, historical context, provenance, metadata structures, and relationships across collections.
Adrian Mangine
Studies collection-management systems, metadata, taxonomies, permissions, audit trails, provenance, and interface workflows.
Summer 2026 research cohort
Jessica Daugherty
Surveyed candidate archival datasets, researched historical context and provenance, and contributed to metadata architecture and cross-dataset research possibilities.
Ayesha Aslam
Developed benchmarking research for degraded historical documents and newspapers, including damaged pages, difficult layouts, degraded scans, typography, calibration, sample collection, and performance/cost comparisons.
Nic Pechon-Elkins
Began research on language preservation and orthographic normalization for oral-history material in under-resourced languages, connecting technical work with linguistic preservation.
Ashwin Krishnan
Contributed to the project's OCR benchmarking work on difficult historical documents and newspapers.
Cultural-heritage & project contributors
Anne-Duncan Enright
Coordinates project infrastructure, working meetings, research connections, and partner relationships, including the developing work with Nous Foundation.
Jenna Nolt
Studies digital collections, metadata, provenance, digitization, archival infrastructure, and data stewardship.
Abigail Foster '23
Studies museum workflows, digital collections, metadata, interfaces, interpretation, discovery, and public access.
Cat Ashley Fairchild Perloff '20
Works on museum studies, collections, material culture, digitization, interpretation, and user experience.
Project partners
Research partners
Kenyon College
Louisiana State University
Berklee College of Music
Columbia University
Research collaboration across humanities, computing, media, and jazz studies.
Cultural & community partners
Nous Foundation / Open Heritage
New Orleans Jazz Museum
Community knowledge, stewardship, collections, and responsible access.