Curriculum Vitae

Here’s an abridged version; you can download my full CV here.

Academic Employment

Assistant Professor

Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2017–

Coordinator and Core Faculty Member

Program in Digital Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles, 2012–2017

Education

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Ph.D., Film Studies and American Studies, 2011

Dissertation: Depth Perception: Narrative and the Body in Medical Filmmaking

Reed College, Portland, Oregon

B.A., History, December 2001

Phi Beta Kappa

Publications

Hockenberry, M., & Posner, M. (2024). Logistical Histories of Computing. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 46(2), 6–12. https://doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2024.3396890
Posner, M. (2022, December 21). Ghost Ships. Logic(s) Magazine. https://logicmag.io/pivot/ghost-ships/
Posner, M. (2022, March 27). Agile and the Long Crisis of Software. Logic(s) Magazine. https://logicmag.io/clouds/agile-and-the-long-crisis-of-software/
Nash, J. C., Pinto, S., LeBrón, M., Miller, M. L., Cvetkovich, A., Livingston, J., Williams-Forson, P., Benjamin, R., Hanhardt, C., Solomon, H., Navuluri, N., Hargett, C. W., Kussin, P. S., Tousignant, N., Chambers-Letson, J., Reid, T., Posner, M., Gates, R., Altschuler, S., … Subramaniam, B. (2022). 2020 Keywords Symposium. Theory & Event, 25(1), 124–214. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/844445
Posner, M. (2022). The Software at Our Doorsteps. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 44(1), 133–134. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/87/article/853392
Posner, M. (2021). Supply Chain. In N. B. Thylstrup, D. Agostinho, A. Ring, C. D’Ignazio, & K. Veel (Eds.), Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data. MIT Press. https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/5002/chapter/2654177/Supply-Chain
Posner, M. (2021). Breakpoints and Black Boxes: Information in Global Supply Chains. Postmodern Culture, 31(3). https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/835830
Klein, L., & Posner, M. (2020). Data. In B. Burgett & G. Hendler (Eds.), Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition (pp. 82–85). New York University Press. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479867455.003.0024
Booth, A., & Posner, M. (2020). Introduction—The Materials at Hand. PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 135(1), 9–22. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2020.135.1.9
Posner, M. (2018, September). Nichts Böses sehen. Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. https://www.rosalux.de/publikation/id/39246/nichts-boeses-sehen
Posner, M. (2018, April 1). See No Evil. Logic(s) Magazine. https://logicmag.io/scale/see-no-evil/
Posner, M. (2018). Digital Humanities. In M. Kackman & M. C. Kearney (Eds.), The craft of criticism: critical media studies in practice. Routledge.
Posner, M. (2018). Prostitutes, charity girls, and The End of the Road: hostile worlds of sex and commerce in an early sexual hygiene film. In C. Bonah, D. Cantor, & A. Laukötter (Eds.), Health education films in the twentieth century. University of Rochester Press.
Cifor, M., Girma, H., Norman, S., & Posner, M. (2018). Early African-American Film Database, 1909–1930. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 4. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.7
Posner, M., & Cifor, M. (2018). Generative Tensions: Building a Digital Project on Early African American Race Film. American Quarterly, 70(3), 709–714. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/704358
Posner, M. (2017, March 15). JavaScript is for Girls. Logic(s) Magazine. https://logicmag.io/intelligence/javascript-is-for-girls/
Posner, M. (2017, March 14). We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/tech-women-code-workshops-developer-jobs
Posner, M., & Klein, L. F. (2017). Editor’s Introduction. Feminist Media Histories, 3(3), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2017.3.3.1
Cifor, M., Girma, H., Lam, W., Norman, S., Posner, M., Contreras, K., & Yoshioka, A. G. (2017). Tracing a Community of Practice: A Database of Early African American Race Film. The Moving Image, 17(2), 101–105. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/article/701956
Posner, M. (2016). Here and There: Creating DH Community. In M. K. Gold & L. F. Klein (Eds.), Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 (pp. 265–273). University of Minnesota Press. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctt1cn6thb.25
Posner, M. (2016). What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities. In M. K. Gold & L. F. Klein (Eds.), Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 (pp. 32–41). University of Minnesota Press. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctt1cn6thb.6
Posner, M. (2015, September 1). Jacob Sarnoff and the Strange World of Anatomical Filmmaking. The Public Domain Review. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/jacob-sarnoff-and-the-strange-world-of-anatomical-filmmaking/
Posner, M. (2015, August 18). The Human Body in Pictures—Jacob Sarnoff. National Library of Medicine. https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2015/08/18/the-human-body-in-pictures-jacob-sarnoff/
Posner, M. (2013). No Half Measures: Overcoming Common Challenges to Doing Digital Humanities in the Library. Journal of Library Administration, 53(1), 43–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2013.756694
Posner, M. (2012). Communicating Disease. In D. Orgeron, M. Gordon, & D. Streible (Eds.), Learning with the lights off: educational film in the United States. Oxford University Press.