Emily Genatowski

Emily holds a Bachelor's degree from Columbia University and a Master's degree from Harvard University. She began her career on the digital team at the Smithsonian Institute & The Frick Collection and later worked at Google as the North American Coordinator of Google Arts & Culture. Emily conducts external AI research in addition to her doctoral studies. She leads a CLARIAH funded team dedicated to standardizing citations of AI and new media in scholarly work. She also conducts privately funded immersive AI robotics research surrounding AI and Domesticity.

Research interests: Emily is interested in the democratizing power of technology in the Digital Age. Her doctoral research is focused specifically on the intersection between data analysis and historiography within the confines of contemporary history in the age of AI.

Current research project: Current research project: Emily's current research is focused on the use of open source intelligence and data analysis in the process of recording contemporary history in the age of AI. Her case studies are focused on the war of Russian aggression in Ukraine and the use of satellite imagery, flight radars and geolocation data from mobile applications as means of corroboration of official state media. Emily hopes to contribute towards a unified and standardized method for recording contemporary history which utilizes the incredible amounts of data created by the public in an effort to democratize and increase the accuracy of historical records in the age of AI.