Christopher Johanson

Christopher Johanson is Associate Professor in the UCLA Department of Classics, founding faculty and former chair of the UCLA Digital Humanities Program, and Faculty Director of Innovative Applications and Creative Activity for UCLA DataX. His research explores the ancient Graeco-Roman world—the extant literature, texts of all kinds, and the material record—using data visualization, network analysis, 2D and 3D representation and real-time interaction. He was recently senior personnel for Innovation, Culture and Creativity (ICC) project.  He directs RomeLab, a multidisciplinary research group whose work uses the physical and virtual city of Rome as a point of departure to study the interrelationship between historical phenomena and the spaces and places of the ancient city. He has collaborated on mapping and visualization projects set in Bolivia, Peru, Albania, Iceland, Spain, Turkey and Italy. His research has received funding from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Science Foundation  (NSF), the MacArthur Foundation, the Ahmanson Foundation, and Google.