Urban Humanities Initiative Core Faculty
Ph.D History of Art (UC Berkeley)
Ph.D Comparative Literature (Stanford University)
MA Comparative Literature (Stanford University)
BA Literature and Philosophy (Duke University)
Todd Presner is Chair of UCLA’s Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and serves as Special Advisor to Vice Chancellor Roger Wakimoto in the Office of Research and Creative Activities (2018-present).
His research focuses on European intellectual and cultural history, Holocaust studies, visual culture, and digital humanities. Presner’s current book project "Ethics of the Algorithm: Computational Approaches to Holocaust History and Memory". This project employs a wide-range of computational methods to pose new questions of Holocaust history and memory. It asks what it means for algorithmic methods of analysis to be ethical and how they can complement humanistic interpretations and values.