Brandon Locke

Brandon Locke is Guest Faculty at the University of Washington iSchool, and was formerly the Director of LEADR, a student-focused digital research lab at Michigan State University. He is also the founder and co-organizer of Endangered Data Week, an annual series of events to raise awareness of threats to publicly available data and to critically explore the world of public data creation, sharing, and use.

His interests in digital humanities include representation and inclusion in digital cultural heritage, data curation and description, and digital literacy. Brandon received a Master of Arts in History and a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2013, and a Masters of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014.

Education history:

• M.A. in History from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2013
• Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2013
• Masters of Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2014