Marie Saldaña

Marie Saldaña works at the intersections of history, data and design. An architectural designer and historian by training, she has collaborated extensively on digital humanities projects internationally. Following postdoctoral fellowships in digital and spatial humanities at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and Rice University, she was a digital history specialist with the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research at Stanford, and then taught design at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as an assistant professor of interior architecture.

Her current project is an investigation of the entanglements of families and places in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, with a focus on the region of South Texas known as the Wild Horse Desert. She is working on a book project funded by a 2024 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as a series of transmedia narratives that include maps, network graphs, 3D models and interactive time-based media.

Honors & Awards

• 2024-2025 Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities