Matthew Hunter

As Head of Digital Scholarship, Matt supports scholars across the Penn community through collaboration, consultation, and program building for digital publication, digital humanities, public digital scholarship, and digital projects, broadly. His work centers on building community and shared infrastructure for digital projects of all kinds, and for new tools and methods to disseminate scholarship to broad audiences. He is particularly passionate about digital- and technology-inflected research projects in the arts, humanities, and cultural heritage spaces.

Before joining Penn Libraries, Matt was the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Florida State University. There, he supported digital open-access publishing and digital scholarship research through the creation of new programs, teaching of workshops, and community-building. He collaborated on several digital cultural heritage projects through 3D digitization of artifacts and the organization of new digital collections in FSU’s Digital Repository. Matt has a background in Classics and Medieval History, and completed his MA in Latin and an MLIS at Florida State. He is currently completing coursework for a PhD in medieval history, with a focus on foodways archaeology and digital humanities methodologies.