About

My role is to coordinate public humanities data initiatives and technology infrastructure to meet the needs of our UH research community. This coordination is supported by an agreement between the UH Libraries and the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute (HPE DSI). I am housed in the Research Services Department at the University Libraries alongside my accomplished Digital Research Commons, Data Science and Digital Humanities colleagues.

Background

García Merchant holds a PhD in English, with an emphasis in Chicana/Latina Literary and Cultural Studies and Digital Humanities from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. García Merchant is also the co-founder (with Maria Cotera) of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective at the University of Texas Austin. An award-winning documentary filmmaker García Merchant has directed and produced eleven films including Las Mujeres de la Caucus Chicana, Palabras Dulces, Palabras Amargas, Thresholds, Corridos at his Bedside, Yo Soy Eva, and the autobiographical short, No Es Facil, 2020. Garcia Merchant’s testimonial, “Three Movements,” on growing up Black and Chicana in the Midwest will be published in the 2024 Fall Edition of the Journal of the Southwest.