A.L. McMichael

Alice Lynn McMichael is the Senior Associate Director of the Digital Humanities Center. Her interdisciplinary approach to digital humanities teaching and community engagement is centered around research ethics, qualitative data, and public facing scholarship. A.L.’s research examines space and place in historical communities. She uses photography, maps, 3D modeling and Augmented Reality to explore the visuality of late antique and medieval Mediterranean urban landscapes. Dr. McMichael holds a PhD in Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), an MA in Art History from Brooklyn College, and a BFA in Graphic Design from Auburn University. She has taught history, art history, and digital humanities at Michigan State University, Hunter College, Montclair State University, City College of New York, and Baruch College. Previously she was Director of the Lab for Education & Advancement in Digital Research (LEADR) and a member of the Digital Humanities Core Faculty at Michigan State University. She was also the digital scholarship researcher for a Mellon-funded task force of the College Art Association and Society of Architectural Historians that developed progressive disciplinary guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship for promotion and tenure.