Background • Dorothy Howard
Dorothy Howard is a researcher, archivist, and open technology advocate.
Dorothy has published peer-reviewed research and case studies about digital governance and open technology, funded by the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the University of California, the Processing Foundation, and the Wikimedia Foundation. She is currently attending Pratt Institute, School of Information (Archives specialization).
Her research includes studies of the dynamics of knowledge production in sociotechnical systems. Dorothy is trained in multiple research methods including ethnography (grounded theory, participant observation, interviews), content analysis, and historical and archival research.
From 2013 to 2016, Dorothy worked as a Wikipedian in Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council and Assistant at the Jean-Noël Herlin Archive Project.
Dorothy has also worked as a grant writer, web designer, and teacher's assistant, as well as a farm worker and supervisor, cheese monger, gas station clerk, barista, server, movie theater attendant, and tutor. Dorothy is also a cross-genre writer with publications that include experimental essays, poetry, short stories, and texts accompanying art exhibitions and music releases. She is the author of the chapbook Troll (Inpatient Press, 2015) and has published works in: Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Canadian Art, Rhizome, DIS, and The New Inquiry. Dorothy formerly edited the Arachne Webzine, an experimental publishing project.