Dr. Finola FINN

Finola Finn is a cultural historian and joined C²DH in 2024. Her work explores health and religion in early modern England, as well as the effects of new technologies on historical practice. She is currently continuing these avenues of research on the DHARPA project, where she also assists with outreach activities surrounding the team’s new data orchestration software, Kiara.

After completing her first degree at the University of Melbourne, she undertook a PhD in history at Durham University. Her doctoral research focused on attitudes to melancholy amongst nonconformist Protestants in seventeenth-century England. In 2023, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher and co-PI on the Machine Discovery and Creation project at Leibniz University Hannover, where she collaborated with philosophers to investigate the epistemological and ethical implications of using AI in historical and creative practices. The results of these projects can be found in such publications as The Historical Journal, AI and Ethics, and Where Words and Images Meet.