Biography

Jessica Mack is Assistant Professor of History and founding Co-Director of Rowan's Center for Digital Humanities Research. A historian of Mexico who specializes in digital public history, Dr. Mack earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. She directs the annual Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon and leads student and faculty research projects in digital history. During the 2023-2024 academic year, she is a Mellon Seminar Fellow at the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Mack's current book project, ​Building University City: Knowledge, Power, and Publics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, examines the campus construction for Mexico's national university (UNAM) in mid-twentieth-century Mexico City. The book analyzes this monumental building project and the politics of land surrounding it to shed light on Mexico’s post-revolutionary state and the protest movements that would soon challenge it. 

Prior to joining the history department at Rowan, Dr. Mack was a postdoctoral fellow at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, where she was a co-Principal Investigator on grant-funded digital history projects such as Mapping the Un​iversity and Tropy. She has also taught at Rutgers University, Colby College, and Princeton University. Dr. Mack is the creator of In​to the Archive, an asynchronous online course on historical research methods that is free and open to all. She has previously worked for the Social Science Research Council and Procura, a non-profit training organization in Mexico City.

​Website: https://www.jessicarobinmack.com/​