Allison Levy is Director of Brown University Digital Publications, a program of distinction based in the University Library’s renowned Center for Digital Scholarship. Launched with generous support from the Mellon Foundation and further supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, BUDP provides a novel and intentional university-based approach to digital content development that is helping to set the standards for the future of scholarship in the digital age. In her role as director, Levy brings together key organizational, academic, and technological resources to support new forms of faculty-authored scholarship, resulting in pathbreaking, award-winning publications. A hallmark of BUDP under her leadership is the centering of access and inclusion in the practice and production of digital scholarship, as exemplified by the NEH Institute on Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities “Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps” (2022, 2024) and the IMLS program “Advancing HBCU Scholarship, Diversifying Digital Publishing” (2023-2026). Levy also spearheads efforts at the industry level to advance the conversation around the development, evaluation, and publication of born-digital scholarship. She currently serves on the Association of University Presses Library Relations Committee and the Renaissance Society of America Digital and Multimedia Committee.
An art historian educated at Bryn Mawr College, Levy has held teaching appointments at University College London, Wheaton College, and Tulane University; at Brown, she holds the appointment of Adjunct Assistant Professor in Italian Studies. Levy has authored or edited five books on early modern Italy, with translations in Italian and Chinese. She serves as founding series editor of the Amsterdam University Press book series Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700, and previously served as founding series editor of the Routledge book series Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Levy's research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, the Getty Research Institute, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the Bogliasco Foundation, among others.
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