Center for Digital Scholarship

Tarika Sankar is Digital Humanities Librarian at the Center for Digital Scholarship and critical scholar of Indo-Caribbean diaspora, Caribbean literature, race and ethnic studies, and digital humanities. She works in project development, leading a selection of our projects; creates digital humanities instructional materials; teaches digital humanities methods to scholars of all levels across the campus; and works to develop new, sustainable research projects, instructional materials, and curricular offerings in digital methods in the humanities. She was a research assistant on the What Every1 Says Project and a Community Leader at the Digital Humanities Research Institute. She is also a collective member at Ro(u)ted By Our Stories, a digital oral history archive of marginalized voices within the Indo-Caribbean community. Tarika holds a PhD in English from the University of Miami and earned a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities. Her dissertation project, “Beyond the Culture Concept: Indo-Caribbean Identity as Diasporic Consciousness,” received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship.