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I am a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies at the University of Richmond, where I also teach in the Data Science & Statistics Program.

Formerly, I held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Montana's Davidson Honors College. I recieved my PhD from New York University's Department of Media, Culture, and Communication in 2024.

My research and teaching span the history and theory of media, technology, data, and infrastructure, with a focus on understanding how digital technologies mediate environmental relations. My current book project addresses the history of topographic measurement, modeling, and representation, from contour lines and photography to lidar and machine learning.

I'm also an avid walker, hiker, and backpacker, and in a past life worked as a trekking guide. I view my classroom and outdoor teaching as deeply interconnected, and bring my theoretical training to bear in how I approach the outdoors, just as nights spent beneath the stars inform my practice at the blackboard. I am committed to place-based and experiential education, as well as to expanding the scope of humanistic inquiry using digital methods. I am happy to advise students on research projects related to media and technology, environmental justice and history, and forms of alternative pedagogy.

Have something you’d like to discuss? Feel free to get in touch!

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Currently: Richmond, Virginia

(^ _ ^)ノ email me —> samkellogg@pm.me / sam.kellogg@richmond.edu