Professor Stuart Dunn
Head of the Department of Digital Humanities,
King’s College London
Stuart Dunn is Professor of Spatial Humanities and Head of the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. He started out as an archaeologist, and now works on in the history of cartography, digital approaches to landscape studies, and spatial humanities.
He currently works on projects in spatial narrative theory, critical GIS, Cypriot cultural heritage, and the archaeology of mobility. Stuart gained an interdisciplinary PhD on Aegean Bronze Age dating methods and palaeovolcanology from the University of Durham in 2002, conducting fieldwork in Melos, Crete and Santorini. In 2006 he became a Research Associate at the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre, having previously worked at the AHRC, after which he became a Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities. He is also a Visiting Professor at Riga Technical University and a Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Digital Humanities at the Australian National University.
Stuart is author of A History of Place in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2019), co-author of Academic Crowdsourcing (Chandos, 2017), and co-editor of Routledge’s International Handbook of Research Methods in Digital Humanities (2020).