Roopika Risam is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and of Comparative Literature in the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement cluster at Dartmouth College. Previously, she spent nine years at Salem State University. Her research focuses on digital and public humanities, with an emphasis on facilitating equitable collaboration with communities. Risam’s research has been supported by over $4.1 million in grants from the Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Institute for Museum and Library Services, Mass Humanities, and the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. Her first monograph, New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2018. Her current book project, “Insurgent Academics: A Radical Account of Public Humanities,” which traces a new history of public humanities through the emergence of ethnic studies, is under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press. Through her work with the Modern Language Association and her journal Reviews in Digital Humanities, Risam has been working to change faculty evaluation structures for digital and public humanities scholarship.