Scott B. Weingart

Scott B. Weingart is an American scholar and director of the Office of Data and Evaluation at the National Endowment for the Humanities, a position he has held since 2023. Weingart also held elected positions in the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.

In December 2020, Cambridge University Press published The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities, a book Weingart co-authored that shows how arts and humanities scholars have approached network visualization, social network theory, and quantitative methods drawn from network science. The book is in about 400 academic libraries and was the subject of two special journal issues.

In 2015 he co-authored the textbook The Historian's Macroscope: Exploring Big Historical Data, published by World Scientific Press, with a second edition released in 2022.

In 2023 he became the founding director of the Office of Data and Evaluation at the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities. For the Latin American Comics Archive, awarded Weingart and his colleagues Felipe Gómez, Daniel Evans, and Rikk Mulligan the 'Mejor iniciativa formativa' (best formative initiative) award in 2018.

Selected publications