Scott Weingart has been appointed to serve as director for the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship (NFCDS) in the Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame.

“Our goals for the CDS are bold and the landscape continues to change rapidly. We are pleased to welcome Scott to the Hesburgh Libraries to lead a new wave of growth,“ said the Edward H. Arnold University Librarian Diane Parr Walker.

“Scott’s breadth and depth of experience will bring renewed vision and expand opportunities for faculty and students across disciplines to leverage our technology and expertise in their research and scholarship,” added Associate University Librarian John Wang.

Weingart comes to Notre Dame from Carnegie Mellon University, where he served concurrently as the program director for the Digital Humanities in the University Libraries and a faculty member for the Humanities Analytics Program in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Weingart held previous appointments at Stanford University Libraries (Stanford University), the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (Indiana University) and the Huygens Institute (National Library of the Netherlands).

Both a librarian and historian, Weingart has focused his research on building initiatives to adapt computational and digital methods to cultural problems. Throughout his career, Weingart has led and contributed to digital scholarship projects across the academic spectrum in areas such as history, public health, ecology, computer vision, folklore, and scientific forecasting.

“While my previous roles were often within digital humanities centers, I have been fortunate enough to collaborate on innovative projects in a variety of disciplines,” said Weingart. “What’s so exciting about Notre Dame’s Center for Digital Scholarship is that it extends beyond any one area of study—rather, it was designed to serve the diverse and increasingly interdisciplinary needs across the whole of campus.”

Weingart is a Paul Fortier Prize winner in Digital Humanities and a co-author of The Historian’s Macroscope (Imperial College Press) and The Network Turn (Cambridge University Press). He recently finished his service on the executive council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. He has secured and led grant-funded projects, taught and presented to international audiences, and published work spanning a broad range of disciplines.

Weingart is earning his Ph.D. in Digital Methods and History from the University of Amsterdam and earned a master’s degree from the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. In addition, he holds an undergraduate degree in history of science with a minor in computer engineering from the University of Florida.

“The Navari Family CDS is a model among digital scholarship centers and well-positioned for growth. I’m honored to join the NFCDS team and the Hesburgh Libraries,” said Weingart. “I look forward to partnering with campus—across all disciplines—to explore how digital tools and emerging technologies can integrate with research, teaching, and learning here at Notre Dame.”

Contact Scott Weingart and any of the NFCDS faculty and staff if you have questions or would like a consultation.