Co-Founders
Kurt Luther
Kurt is an associate professor of computer science and (by courtesy) history at Virginia Tech. He directs the Crowd Intelligence Lab, researching the complementary strengths of crowdsourced human intelligence and artificial intelligence (AI) in domains like history, journalism, national security, and creativity. Since 2015, he has written a quarterly column on Civil War photo sleuthing for Military Images Magazine. He was named an Emerging Scholar by the American Civil War Museum and a Distinguished Writing Awards Finalist by the Army Historical Foundation. You can learn more about him here.
Vikram Mohanty
Vikram is a postdoctoral researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), Carnegie Mellon University. His research explores human-AI collaboration for large-scale sensemaking, leveraging AI and crowdsourced human expertise with applications in creativity support, domain-specific data analysis, and historical photo identification. During his PhD at Virginia Tech, he developed Civil War Photo Sleuth, an award-winning digital history platform that integrates crowdsourcing with computer vision to identify unknown Civil War portraits. You can learn more about him here.
Ron Coddington
Ron is the editor and publisher of Military Images, a quarterly magazine dedicated to showcasing, interpreting and preserving early American photographs of soldiers and sailors. He is the author of five books on Civil War portraiture from Johns Hopkins University Press, including Faces of the Civil War, Faces of the Confederacy, African American Faces of the Civil War, Faces of the Civil War Navies, and most recently, Faces of Civil War Nurses. Ron has participated as a speaker at numerous Civil War-related events, and at meetings for round tables and other organizations. You can learn more about him here.
The Photo Sleuth Foundation 