Roopika Risam

Roopika Risam is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, serving as Chair of Film & Media Studies and Director of the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium. She co-founded the New England Equity and Engagement Consortium (N3EC), promoting anti-racist community engagement.

Education: PhD from Emory University, MA from Georgetown University, and BA from University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on data ethics, postcolonial studies, and digital humanities, particularly at the intersections of equity and justice. She has secured over $4.3 million in grants from NEH and Mellon Foundation.

Research interests include academic insurgency in public humanities, decolonizing digital practices, and anti-racist pedagogies. Key projects include Insurgent Academics, exploring marginalized scholars' contributions to public humanities, and The Global Du Bois, a digital humanities project visualizing W.E.B. Du Bois's global impact.

• Awards: Civil Liberties Champion Award (2018), 2023 DEI Award
• Grants: NEH, Mellon Foundation, Massachusetts Department of Higher Education

Labs/Teams: Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, Reviews in Digital Humanities journal, N3EC.