The people behind the project
Archival Intelligence brings together researchers in AI, humanities, and cultural heritage at Kenyon College, working in partnership with New Orleans institutions and the Schmidt Sciences HAVI network.
Katherine Elkins
Katherine Elkins is an AI safety researcher and Co-Founder of the Human-Centered AI Lab. She is a Principal Investigator at the NIST US AI Safety Institute Consortium, representing the Modern Language Association, and the author of The Shapes of Stories: Sentiment Analysis for Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 2022). She is a Professor at Kenyon College, where she directs the Integrated Program in Humane Studies and co-founded the world's first human-centered AI curriculum in 2016. Ph.D., UC Berkeley. B.A., Yale.
Jon Chun
Jon Chun is Co-Founder and Director of the Human-Centered AI Lab. He is co-PI for NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium work, co-PI for Schmidt Sciences HAVI, and co-creator of the first human-centered AI curriculum (2016). He created the SentimentArcs computational methodology for narrative analysis. Previously co-founded SafeWeb ($26M acquisition by Symantec; first In-Q-Tel cybersecurity investment). UC Berkeley EECS, UT Austin MS. Two US patents.
Supratik Mukhopadhyay
Supratik Mukhopadhyay brings cutting-edge AI and machine learning expertise with deep knowledge of the technical challenges in multimodal data processing, pattern recognition, and scalable computational systems — critical for building tools that work with diverse archival formats.
Lori Landay
Lori Landay brings expertise in digital media, cultural studies, and the intersection of technology and the arts. She provides crucial insight into how musical and cultural archives can be meaningfully preserved while maintaining the lived context and cultural significance of the materials.
Brent Hayes Edwards
Brent Hayes Edwards is a leading scholar of jazz history, African American cultural production, and archival theory. His deep knowledge of New Orleans' musical heritage and the complexities of cultural archives anchors the project's humanities research questions.
Contributors & collaborators
Our work is strengthened by a growing community of archivists, alumni, students, and collaborators.
Jenna Nolt
Cultural Heritage Systems Advisor, Kenyon College. Expert in institutional repositories, digitization standards, and archival preservation.
Abigail Foster
National Gallery of Art & Kenyon alum. Published AI research at Kenyon; brings experience from heritage preservation at a major national institution.
Student Researchers
Nava Bahrampour, Gwen Eisenbeis, Adrian Mangene, Andre McCloud & Hannah Sussman ('25). Kenyon undergraduates trained in human-centered AI. Hannah Sussman serves as project fellow. Student research from the lab has been downloaded 90,000+ times from 4,000+ institutions worldwide.
Institutional partners
New Orleans Jazz Museum
Custodian of one of the world's most significant collections of jazz artifacts, recordings, and archival materials.
Kenyon College
Home of the Integrated Program in Humane Studies and the world's first human-centered AI curriculum (2016).
Schmidt Sciences HAVI
The Humanities and AI Virtual Institute funds research at the intersection of AI and humanistic scholarship.
Louisiana State University
Computer Science & AI
Columbia University
Jazz & Archive Studies
Berklee College of Music
Digital Media & Cultural Studies