We are thrilled to announce that the winner of the CSDH/SCHN Award for Outstanding Achievement is Dr. Michael Eberle Sinatra!
Dr. Sinatra is a Professor of Digital Humanities at the Université de Montréal. Trained in Romanticism at Oxford and a Leigh Hunt specialist, he has been involved in digital publishing and the digital humanities for twenty-five years. He is the founding director of the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) and has been directing it since 2013.
Dr. Sinatra has played a major role in institutionalizing Digital Humanities on an international scale. From 2009 to 2015, he served as the Francophone President of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN). He then represented Canada on the executive committee of Humanistica, the international Francophone association for Digital Humanities, from its founding in 2014 until 2019, acting as Secretary between 2016 and 2019.
From 2021 to 2023, Dr. Sinatra was the Chair of the Scientific Council of OpenEdition, the French digital platform for humanities and social sciences research. He is currently Co-President of centerNet: An international network of digital humanities centers (2022–2026), and President of ADHO: The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (2024–2025), the global umbrella organization for the digital humanities, comprising thirteen constituent organizations.
To quote from his nomination package: “Depuis son arrivée à l’Université de Montréal en juin 2001, Michael Sinatra s’est imposé comme une figure incontournable et inspirante dans le domaine des humanités numériques, tant au Québec qu’au Canada et à l’international. Sa carrière, riche de plus de deux décennies, témoigne d’un engagement profond et constant pour l’avancement de notre discipline qu’il a largement contribué à institutionnaliser et à faire rayonner comme ambassadeur passionné et infatigable.”
