Constance Crompton
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Constance Crompton is an associate professor in the Department of Communications at the University of Ottawa, where she is also the director of the Humanities Data Lab. Crompton holds the position of Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities,[1][2] is vice-president (English) of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, and is an associate director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (University of Victoria).[3] In 2023, Crompton was elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.
Crompton holds a Bachelor of Arts and Masters from Toronto Metropolitan University, as well as a PhD from York University.[4] After completing her postdoc at the University of Victoria in 2012, Crompton became an assistant professor of Digital Humanities (DH) at the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO) campus where she taught DH, English, and Cultural Studies.[5] There she founded the Humanities Data Lab in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, which is now called the AMP Lab.[6] Crompton eventually left UBC to teach at the University of Ottawa.[7] She has worked on numerous projects, and is a key member on the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship, Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership, and Transgender Media Portal projects.[8]