MIT Global Shakespeares received an HONORABLE MENTION for the 2024 ATHE-ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

Published on: July 29, 2024

The committee is also delighted to recognize the following outstanding work and honorable mention: Alexa Alice Joubin & Peter S. Donaldson in Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive

Peter S. Donaldson is Ford International Professor in the Humanities at MIT. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) and has held research fellowships from the NEH and ACLS. He was the Inaugural Lloyd Davis Distinguished Visiting Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Queensland (2006) as well as Class of 1960 Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and the first holder of the Ann Fetter Friedlander Professorship in the Humanities.

Alexa Alice Joubin is Professor of English, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures, a Public Interest Technology Scholar, and faculty of the Trustworthy AI Initiative at George Washington University where she directs the Digital Humanities Institute. In the UK, she held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Warwick. She is the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award.

The Association of Theatre in Higher Education wishes to especially acknowledge the members of the ATHE-ASTR Award For Excellence in Digital Scholarship Subcommittee. Thank you for your work supporting this award.

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