Rongqian Ma


Assistant Professor

Indiana University Bloomington, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

Email: rm56@iu.edu

We can know more than we can tell.

  —Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension


My research interests are in the broadly defined area of digital humanities, with particular foci on digital archives and curation, computational literary studies, and scholarly communication. I use mixed methods to explore how critical collective adoption of information technologies (e.g., AI, visualizations) produces and communicates humanities knowledge, shapes the intellectual identities of digital humanists as a research community, and leverages the gained insight to design and curate digital cultural archives and datasets for humanities research.

I received my Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh (2022). Previously, I obtained a Master of Library and Information Science and a Master of Arts (M.A.) in East Asian Studies, both from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Chinese Classics from Renmin University of China (Beijing, China).