After four successful years of programming, mentorship, and advocacy, the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) is wrapping up and making way for a new chapter. Professor Kenzie Burchell has been appointed faculty lead to guide its redesign into a new tri-campus centre for DH@UofT, launching at Scarborough next year.
Over the coming year, Professor Burchell will work closely with UTSC’s Office of the Vice-Principal Research & Innovation, the library’s Digital Scholarship Unit, and outgoing director Professor Elspeth Brown to carry this vision forward. Together, they aim to bring the best of critical and computational approaches across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, while fostering new forms of digital storytelling and research engagement.
Professor Burchell is an Associate Professor and Director of the Specialist Program in Journalism at the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, with graduate affiliations at the Faculty of Information and the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies. He is the author of Constant Disconnection: The Weight of Everyday Digital Life (2024) and principal investigator of the Beyond Disinformation research cluster (Universities of Manchester, Melbourne, and Toronto, 2023–2025).
You can read more about his research interests and career before University of Toronto here.