Biography

Jessica Mack is Assistant Professor of History and 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 Certificate of Graduate Study (COGS) in Digital Humanities, hosts the annual Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon at Rowan, and leads student and faculty DH research projects. She teaches courses in digital history, digital humanities, oral history, and history of Mexico and the Caribbean for undergraduates and graduate students. During the 2023-2024 academic year, she was 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/​