Libby Hemphill

Libby Hemphill serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, with appointments across the School of Information, the Institute for Social Research, and the Digital Studies Institute within the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Her research focuses on social media toxicity mitigation, digital data curation, and human-AI content moderation.

Research interests include:

• Quantifying toxicity in online discussions
• Evaluating data reuse impacts for FAIR compliance
• Modeling linguistic adaptations in extremist communities
• Advancing NLP for social media analysis
• Democratizing access to digital archives

Recent publication trends highlight her work in Generative AI applications for social science, content moderation tools, and data stewardship frameworks. Scientific contributions include the 2021 PODS Grant for social media archives. She directs both the Resource Center for Minority Data and Social Media Archive at ICPSR.