Five Questions with Joshua Sosin, a Library-Based Digital Humanities Scholar

We’ve heard a lot about embedded librarianship, but Duke University is doing it the other way around. Effective July 1, Joshua D. Sosin, an associate professor in Duke’s Department of Classical Studies, will become director of theDuke Collaboratory for Classics Computing, a new digital-humanities unit of the Duke University Libraries which is supported by a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sosin will be the first tenured faculty member at the university to have a joint appointment in the library and an academic department. LJ caught up with him to find out how and why this experiment got started, and what he hopes to achieve.

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