Scott B. Weingart

Director

Scott Weingart Portrait 2024
(202) 606-8240

Division/Office

Office of Data and Evaluation

Floor/Office Number

4

Biography

Scott B. Weingart is the Director of the Office of Data and Evaluation. A data scientist and historian of science, Weingart most recently directed the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as treasurer of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, as a member of the Library of Congress’s Copyright Public Modernization Committee, and as an executive council member of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Weingart previously served on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University as director of its library’s digital humanities program. He is a coauthor of The Network Turn (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian’s Macroscope (Imperial College Press, 2014), and a Fortier Prize winner in digital humanities. Weingart holds a BA in the history of science from the University of Florida and an MS in data science from Indiana University’s School of Informatics and Computing.