Dr. Anna-Maria Sichani (Anna-Maria Chikhani | Άννα-Μαρία Σιχάνη) is a media and cultural historian and a Digital Humanist. Anna-Maria is currently a BRAID Fellow – Research Associate in Digital Humanities at Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, University of London, looking at embedding responsible AI literacy skills across the cultural heritage community to empower informed, responsible and ethical use of AI and machine learning. Anna-Maria is also a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow. Previously, she has held post doctoral posistions working on the AHRC-Towards a National Collection- funded project “The Congruence Engine: Digital Tools for New Collections-Based Industrial Histories” and as a Fellow in Media History and Historical Data Modelling, at the Department of Media, Film and Music at University of Sussex and Sussex Humanities Lab, working on the AHRC-funded ‘Connected Histories of the BBC’ project. She also held a UKRI Policy and Engagement Fellowship in Digital Research and Innovation Infrastructure. Anna-Maria held also a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship as an Early Stage Researcher affiliated with the Digital Scholarly Editing Initial Training Network (DiXiT) (EU-FP7), based at Huygens ING and a PhD Research Fellowship at King’s Digital Lab. In the past she has been collaborating as an Early Career Investigator (ECI) with the COST Action “Distant Reading for European Literary History” (CA16204), with the Transcribe Bentham project and the DARIAH-GR/DYAS infrastructure .

💻 Her research interests include data-intensive research and emerging technologies (including AI) in the Humanities and the wider Cultural Heritage and information environment, information architecture, data modelling, data wrangling, data mining and visualisation, responsible and ethical research including responsible data curation and stewardship, as well as media and cultural history, cultural and social aspects of media and technological changes, sustainable research infrastructures and digital pedagogy.

📚 She is currently co-editing (together with Jane Winters and Dr Eirini Goudarouli) an interdisciplinary Open Access short-form book series on Digital Cultural Heritage, from the University of London Press, for exploring the past, present and future of digital cultural heritage, both digitised and born-digital, by focusing on key themes in digital cultural heritage—such as access, (re)use, value(s) and sustainability. You’ll find all the details, including how to submit a proposal here!

📚 She is also co-editing (with Michael Donnay) a new exciting book on Reframing Failure in digital Scholarship, from the University of London Press.

🗂️ Her work has appeared in Journal of Open Data in the Humanities, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Journal of Modern Greek Media and Culture, The Journal of Electronic Publishing, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, The Book’s Journal. She ‘ve lectured, given conference presentations, ran workshops and hackathons, and coordinated events in Athens, London, Cologne, Rome and the Hague.

👒 She is currently serving as a Treasurer and Trustee of the European Association of Digital Humanities. She is also serving as Research Representative at the Archives and Technology Committee of the Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland)(2021- today). She is a Trustee of the ProgHist Ltd and member of the Editorial board of The Programming Historian. She is one of founding member od the Greek Digital Humanities Research Network. She is a reviewer of ADHO Digital Humanities conferences, DHBenelux conferences and Digital Heritage conference. She is member of the Editorial Board of The review journal for digital editions and resources. Otherwise, she is spending her time devoted to books, birds seeing, long-distance running, finding the best coffee bean variety and currently baking weird cakes.

🎓 Her PhD research (2018, University of Ioannina (Greece)), at the intersection of Media History, Cultural Studies and Digital Humanities, focused on how media and cultural technologies informed while radicalised editorial practices and literary activities in the Modern Greek literary field during the Sixties. She studied Modern Greek Philology (BA & MPhil) at the University of Athens and Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), then followed by a MA in Digital Humanities at Univerity College London, Dept. Information Studies, with a dissertation on literary drafts and computational technologies.

For examples of writing and research, see Research; for a full record of activity, see also Projects; feel free to contact her; here a fullest, more polished and updated version of her CV.