Samantha Blickhan

Dr. Samantha Blickhan is Co-Director and Humanities Lead for the Zooniverse.org crowdsourcing platform. In her role, she guides the strategic vision for Zooniverse Humanities efforts, manages development of new tools and resources, consults with teams in building and running projects, and produces original research about crowdsourcing, digital humanities, sustainable development, ethics in public participatory projects, and user experience design. Her work has been supported by funding from the IMLS, NEH, NSF, ACLS, and AHRC. She is co-I of the Collective Wisdom project, which produced The Collective Wisdom Handbook, an authoritative book on the ‘state of the art’ in cultural heritage crowdsourcing, in 2021