Grant Wythoff

As Digital Humanities Strategist, Grant leads CDH programs for graduate students, including the Graduate Certificate in DH, Graduate Fellowship, the Graduate Colloquium, and the CDH's core graduate seminar, CDH 507: Data in the Humanities. He consults and collaborates with faculty, staff, and students on data curation, curriculum development, and project design.

Grant's scholarship examines the ways emerging media have intersected with art and culture over the past two centuries. His latest book, Technique in the Age of Tech, is forthcoming 2025 from the University of Minnesota Press's Electronic Mediations series. This book explores how users of digital media experience, negotiate, and influence technological change — at a time when so much of that change feels out of our hands. His first book — The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction (Univ. Minnesota Press) — argues that science fiction began among the maker movement of the 1910s. It was a pilot project for the Manifold Scholarship platform for open access, multimodal books.

Elsewhere, Grant is cofounder of Philly Community Wireless, a coalition of organizers, technologists, researchers, and librarians working toward digital equity in Philadelphia by building community-owned and -operated mesh networks. Grant is also the founding editor of Startwords, a journal for experimental humanities research that he designed and built with colleagues at the CDH.

Before coming to Princeton, Grant held postdoctoral fellowships with the Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities and the Penn State Center for Humanities and Information. At Columbia, Grant was a cofounder of the Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities.