Carl G. Stahmer

Carl G. Stahmer serves as Professor of English and Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis, where he holds dual leadership roles as Executive Director of the UC Davis DataLab: Data Science and Informatics and Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive—a position he assumed after 18 years as its Associate Director and Lead Developer.

His research pioneers computational tools for Analytical Bibliography at scale, focusing on historical text and printed image analysis. With a career spanning since the mid-1990s, he has shaped digital humanities through foundational work with the English Short Title Catalog, NINES (Networked Infrastructure for 19th Century Studies), ARC (Advanced Research Consortium), and Project Quintessence (EEBO text analysis portal).

Stahmer's initiatives have secured major funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Microsoft Research, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Science Foundation. He teaches L-100: Digital Approaches to Bibliography & Book History, integrating his research into pedagogy.

He directs the UC Davis DataLab and English Broadside Ballad Archive, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration in digital scholarship infrastructure and data science applications for humanities research.