Research team and collaborators
Archival Intelligence brings together work in artificial intelligence, archival studies, cultural history, music, language, museum systems, and human-centered design.
Co-Principal Investigators
Katherine Elkins
Katherine Elkins is a professor at Kenyon College and co-founder of the Human-Centered AI Lab. Her research examines artificial intelligence, narrative, cultural preservation, judgment, and human values.
Jon Chun
Jon Chun is co-founder and director of the Human-Centered AI Lab. His research focuses on AI systems, computational methods, technical infrastructure, and research design.
Co-Investigators and consultant
Supratik Mukhopadhyay
Supratik Mukhopadhyay contributes research in multimodal machine learning, pattern recognition, and scalable systems for heterogeneous archival materials.
Lori Landay
Lori Landay contributes research on digital media, museum interfaces, and the representation of musical and cultural materials.
Brent Hayes Edwards
Brent Hayes Edwards advises the project on jazz history, African American cultural production, translation, and archival theory.
Ongoing research team
Ty Kushi
Researches archival collections, their historical contexts and provenance, and the relationships among datasets and metadata.
Adrian Mangine
Evaluates collection-management systems, including metadata and taxonomy structures, permissions, audit trails, provenance, search, export, and interface workflows.
Summer 2026 research cohort
Jessica Daugherty
Surveyed candidate collections and researched historical context, provenance, metadata, and possible relationships among datasets.
Ayesha Aslam
Developed benchmarking research for degraded documents and newspapers, including difficult layouts, scan quality, typography, calibration, sample selection, performance, and cost.
Nic Pechon-Elkins
Investigated language preservation and orthographic variation in oral-history materials from under-resourced languages.
Ashwin Krishnan
Contributed to OCR benchmarking on difficult historical documents and newspapers.
Archival systems and coordination
Anne-Duncan Enright
Coordinates project infrastructure, research meetings, team connections, and institutional and community relationships, including work with Nous Foundation.
Jenna Nolt
Contributes expertise in digital collections, metadata, provenance, digitization, archival infrastructure, and data stewardship.
Abigail Foster '23
Contributes research on museum workflows, digital collections, metadata, interfaces, interpretation, discovery, and public access.
Cat Ashley Fairchild Perloff '20
Contributes expertise in museum studies, collections, material culture, digitization, interpretation, and user experience.
Research, cultural, and funding relationships
Research institutions
Kenyon College
Louisiana State University
Berklee College of Music
Columbia University
Researchers at these institutions contribute work in the humanities, computing, media, and jazz studies.
Cultural and community relationships
Nous Foundation
New Orleans Jazz Museum
The project’s New Orleans relationships connect technical research with language, cultural knowledge, collections, stewardship, and access.
Support and commitments
Schmidt Sciences HAVI
Open Heritage Statement
The project is supported through the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute and is a signatory to the Open Heritage Statement.