Nathan Kelber
Current Roles
Constellate Education Manager, JSTOR Labs
Director, Text Analysis Pedagogy Institute
Past Roles
Faculty, Mike Ilitch School of Business, Wayne State University
Digital Scholarship Specialist, University Libraries at UNC Chapel Hill
Manager of Digital Projects, Detroit Historical Society
Current Projects
Constellate
A platform for teaching and learning text analysis.
TAP Institute
An international institute on text analysis.
Past Projects
On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance
A research project using machine-learning to discover Jim/Jane Crow congressional laws passed in the state of North Carolina. Funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Learn more.
Detroit 67
A community history project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1967 civil rights uprising in Detroit. Winner of the National Medal for Museum and Library Service, “the nation’s highest honor conferred on museums and libraries for service to the community.”
JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative
A project to bring JSTOR content for free to prisoners pursuing higher education. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Juncture
A free-to-use, open source framework for converting simple text files into an engaging visual essay.
Skills
Community Organizing
Public speaking, community building, technical training
Project Management
Project planning, writing grant applications, managing grant projects, documentation
Programming
Text Analysis, Python, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning