Randal Harrison

Emerging Technologies Librarian
Concurrent Teaching Professors Mendoza
Hesburgh Libraries

Research Interests

Communication (field), British Cultural Studies, Visual Culture, Ludology, the culural logic of computation, the problematic of privacy

Related Courses Taught

Conveying Visual Data Insights, Data Storytelling

Biography

Randy Harrison is the Emerging Technologies Librarian for the Hesburgh Libraries. There he assists faculty, staff, and students with the identification, evaluation, and use of emerging technologies, innovative online tools, and related services. He is particularly focused on identifying learning and engagement opportunities to support student research and promote student success.

 

Randy also creates innovative web applications, including Remix.nd.edu, Notre Dame's platform for building multimedia literacy, and Bootstrapr.io, a tool for authoring Bootstrap web components. He also co-chairs the Hesburgh Library Hackathon, and runs the Hesburgh Libraries' Code Café.

 

In 2020, Randy received the Joseph J. and Frances D. Rog Zavislak Library Faculty Recognition Award.

 

Outside of his primary faculty role, Randy serves as concurrent teaching professor for a number of departments, including ITAO and Management & Organization. He also currently serves as a co-secretary for the university's Faculty Senate.

 

Coming from the discipline of British Cultural Studies, Randy also continues to be focused on the problematics of class, gender, and race and ethnicity, as well as any social formations which produce cultural and socioeconomic disempowerment. In 2018, he created the The Social Justice Game, a free educational board game designed to help faculty gamify the economic dimensions of social justice for their students. In 2020, Randy completed the nine-month Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED) workshop which was the impetus for his latest project — a special web portal for building diversity literacy. With these and other projects, he involves himself in ways that promote inclusivity and diversity at Notre Dame and beyond.