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<div>Erin O'Grady</div>

<div class="r">Educator, Researcher & Writer</div>

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<h1 class="name">Erin O'Grady</h1>

<div class="role">Educator, Researcher & Writer</div>

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<p>I work at the seam where the humanities meet the technologies now remaking how we <span class="green">research, write, and know.</span></p>

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<p>Much of my work is in designing research ecosystems for novice historians — the communities of inquiry, and the blend of artisanal craft and emerging literacies, through which young scholars learn to author their own thinking rather than outsource it. And I guide institutions through the shifts AI is forcing on teaching and research: helping them surface the hidden assumptions in how they frame writing and inquiry, and design for the productive friction that real understanding requires.</p>

<p>I teach Modern European History, ethics, and epistemology, and I designed the course Digital Culture & Modern Power. I conceived and co-lead STAIR, a study of how students experience learning and authorship in the age of AI, and I work with faculty and organizations — including JSTOR — on what research should look like now. My research has taken me from the Vatican Apostolic Library to the railway archives of Ireland. Earlier in my career I coauthored research on the digital divide at the Pew Internet & American Life Project, and I hold an M.A. with honors in Communication, Culture & Technology from Georgetown, where I studied under Randy Bass at the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship.</p>

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<p>The capacity for what we can know has been amplified beyond measure. How we come to know — and how we come to know ourselves in the process — has not: it remains slow, embodied, unforceable.</p>

<p class="claim">That question is the cornerstone of the next pillar of knowing, the one our moment must build as surely as earlier ages built their libraries and their halls. I am among those building it.</p>

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<div class="meta">Greens Farms Academy · 2026</div>

<h3><a href="https://www.gfacademy.org/single-post/~board/gfa-blog/post/exploring-research-and-ai-with-jstor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Exploring Research and AI with JSTOR</a></h3>

<p>Exploring ethical research ecosystems for novice historians with the incredible leadership at JSTOR.</p>

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<div class="meta">Greens Farms Academy · 2026</div>

<h3><a href="https://www.gfacademy.org/single-post-gfa-blog/~board/gfa-blog/post/visiting-research-professor-speaks-with-stair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visiting Research Professor Speaks with STAIR</a></h3>

<p>Former Georgetown classmate and Pew Internet alumna, Professor Mary Madden, joins STAIR to train our students in qualitative research methods.</p>

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<div class="meta">Greens Farms Academy · 2025</div>

<h3><a href="https://www.gfacademy.org/single-post/~board/gfa-blog/post/on-inquiry-italy-and-the-future-of-knowing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On Inquiry, Italy, and the Future of Knowing</a></h3>

<p>From the Sistine Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Library to the artisans of Italy, in pursuit of the future of the humanities after AI.</p>

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<div class="meta">Greens Farms Academy · 2025</div>

<h3><a href="https://www.gfacademy.org/single-post/~board/gfa-blog/post/2025-ai-summer-institute" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Week of Inquiry: The 2025 AI Summer Institute</a></h3>

<p>A cross-divisional faculty program I co-led, on upholding the integrity of data, pedagogy, and authorship.</p>

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<div class="meta">Global Online Academy</div>

<h3><a href="https://globalonlineacademy.org/insights/articles/what-to-expect-in-goa-professional-learning-offering" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On the human element as the driving algorithm</a></h3>

<p>On why the most durable learning keeps the human relationship at its center.</p>

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<p>I'm at work on a book of literary history recovering my grandmother and father's history in twentieth-century Ireland and England, and the interlocking systems that nearly erased them.</p>

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<div class="k">Correspondence</div>

<a href="mailto:hello@erinogrady.com">hello@erinogrady.com</a>

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