Elizabeth Grumbach

Elizabeth Grumbach (she/her) is the Assistant Director of Research and Strategic Communications at the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, where she leads complex, multi-institutional research initiatives at the intersection of humanities, technology, and ethics. She collaborates with university leadership, research teams, and stakeholders to design and implement strategies that advance ethical engagement with emerging technologies. Through innovative programming and communications, she strengthens partnerships, amplifies research impact, and ensures projects deliver meaningful outcomes aligned with institutional goals. In her previous work with the Center, she coordinated the Lincoln Center Design Studio series and facilitated cross-institutional research groups, applying participatory design to expand collaborations across fields such as public health, cybersecurity, and information science.

She currently serves as the Co-Vice-President (2024-2026)/Co-President Elect (2026-2028) of the Association for the Computers and the Humanities (ACH). Her current research focuses on design justice and critical tech interventions that incorporate care practices and community-driven research. She regularly teaches the Humanities Lab course "Humanizing Digital Culture" with collaborator, Professor Jason Bronowitz. She has been working in education as an academic professional since 2012, first at Texas A&M University's Center for Digital Humanities Research (2012-2017) and now for Arizona State University (2017-present). 

Grumbach directs the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI), funded by The College's Division of Humanities and housed in the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics. The DHI focuses on providing specific training opportunities and building community around shared goals through regular events. 

She is currently the Co-PI with Dr. Sarah Florini for the "Algorithmic Folk Theories" project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities; the project is the culmination of five years of community-centered co-design and participatory action research. It seeks to bring together academic researchers and digital content creators to identify and analyze folk theories regarding algorithmic content curation and moderation on TikTok in order to identify opportunities and strategies for combating the spread of mis/disinformation and hate speech on the platform.

Her past projects surface interventions for critical data studies and embodied data visualizations ("Counting the Dead: Arizona’s Forgotten Pandemic" [2018]), as well as digital pedagogy, technical frameworks for optical character recognition and text analysis, and care-based project management. She currently directs the Digital Reparative Archives working group at ASU, and she serves on the Board of Directors for Zombified Media, an educational nonprofit that seeks to use the metaphor of the apocalypse to form strategies for survival and community care in crisis.

She also currently serves as the Project Manager for "What rules of life allow collectives to effectively manage risk? Understanding the rules underlying risk management across systems to increase societal resilience" (PI: Athena Aktipis) funded by the National Science Foundation-Emerging Frontiers.

Her most recent published work can be found in Digital Humanities Quarterly, the Journal for Electronic Publishing, and the Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, as well as the Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities. Further work and information can be found here (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5622-0967).