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 integrates digital humanities, information visualization, and science and technology studies. More specifically, I use mixed methods to explore how critical collective adoption of information technologies produces and communicates humanities knowledge, and shapes digital humanities as a field. I also write about humanities data curation and archives. 

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). 


**I am looking to recruit a PhD student for Fall 2024! If you are interested in working with me on research related to digital humanities, computational literary studies, visualization, or scholarly communication, please feel free to reach out to me at rm56@iu.edu for further details.  More information about our Ph.D. program in Information Science can be found here: https://ils.indiana.edu/programs/phd-information-science/index.html. The application deadline for Fall 2024 admission is December 15, 2023.