Corey Masao Johnson is an interdisciplinary scholar heavily invested in the potential of technology and design to transform knowledge production. Relying on digital research tools, his current book manuscript, “Artifacts of Encounter: Contested Geographies in Polynesia and the American Pacific,” examines attempts to map the cultural area of Polynesia and its peoples since the first moments of American exploration of the Pacific. He has also been involved with a number of Digital Humanities projects and initiatives. He has served as the technical director for the Out of the Desert Project at Yale University, a public history initiative that explores the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. He holds an A.B. in English Literature from Harvard University and an M.St. in English and American Studies from the University of Oxford. At Stanford University’s Program in Modern Thought and Literature, his PhD research was supported by a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship and a Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship from the Stanford Humanities Center. He was also a SHASS Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellow in Global Studies and Languages at MIT and a visiting fellow at the American Philosophical Society.