Dr. Alexander Cors is a historian and public scholar who combines archival research with digital methods. He received his PhD in History from Emory University in 2022, with a dissertation on migration and land rights in the eighteenth-century Mississippi River Valley. His research received grants from the ACLS, the Mellon Foundation, LGS, and others, and won the best dissertation prize from the American Society for Legal History.
He is currently a Digital Scholarship Specialist at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, where he manages the center’s thirty student employees and develops professional development programs for graduate students. Alexander works with faculty and students on projects relating to mapping, digital publishing, project management, and community-engaged research. He is the managing co-PI for a large interdisciplinary research project on Atlanta, which combines different digital tools and platforms to tell new stories about the city’s history and culture.