Jacquelyne Thoni Howard

Professor of Practice & Associate Director of Student Engagement

She/her

Jacquelyne Thoni Howard

Biography

 

Jacquelyne Thoni Howard is an inaugural Professor of Practice and the Associate Director of Student Engagement at the Connolly Alexander Institute for Data Science. At CAIDS, she teaches Introduction to Data, Data Visualization, and GIS and Mapping Global Issues. She also directs student programming within the CAIDS Data Lab, including the Data Research Internship Program, the Data Peer Mentor Program, the Data Help Desk Program, and the Data Ambassador Council.  

 

As a historian, her teaching, research, and mentorship centers on data literacy, critical data studies, the history of data, science and technology studies, and the digital humanities. Her work often focuses on the cultural and social implications of data using the frameworks of gender and race and on applying equitable data practices to data projects. Thoni Howard is a founding editor, with Clare Daniel, of the award-winning guide Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online. With her fellow editors, she co-edited a collection of essays titled Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online from the University of Athabasca Press, which is forthcoming in November of 2024. She has published works about surveillance and student privacy and convening digital humanities communities using feminist lab practices. She is also the technical director of the This Beautiful Sisterhood of Books Project with Kate Adams.

 

Prior to joining CAIDS, Thoni Howard taught interdisciplinary subjects as a certified secondary teacher and courses in history and gender studies at the University of Maryland University College, Fordham University, Loyola University New Orleans, and at Tulane University. She also has gained extensive professional experience in the fields of instructional design and educational technology in higher education. She earned a Ph.D. in U.S. History from Fordham University, a M.A. in History from the University of San Diego, and a B.A. in History with a minor in secondary education from Loyola University New Orleans.

 

Expertise 

 

Educational Background

  • PhD & MA, History
  • Certified Teacher 

 Data Areas of Expertise

  • Digital Humanities (DH) and Digital Scholarship 
  • Critical Data Studies
  • Data Ethics & Justice
  • Surveillance Data
  • Digital Infrastructures
  • Communicating about Data
  • Data Visualization
  • Mapping and GIS
  • Database Development and Management
  • Digital Archiving, Indexing, and Metadata
  • Science and Technology Studies 
  • History of Data (Focus on Gender and Race)

Software Expertise

  • Excel
  • ArcGIS, QGIS
  • Tableau, Power BI
  • Custom Post Types in Wordpress, Drupal 
  • Omeka, Islandora 
  • Open-Source Visualization Tools: Voyant, Raw Graphs, Flourish, Paladio, Gephi