Dr Sharon Webb

Dr Sharon Webb is an Associate Professor in Digital Humanities in the History Department at the University of Sussex and a Director of the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab. She is a historian specialising in Irish associational culture and nationalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as a leading digital humanities practitioner with extensive experience in developing critical approaches to digital history and archival studies.

With an interdisciplinary background in history and computer science, Dr Webb’s research sits at the intersection of digital humanities, critical archival studies, and digital preservation. Her expertise spans several key areas, including gender and technology, feminist and queer archives, critical digital archives, community heritage, and the socio-political impacts of technological development.