Biography

Dr Elizabeth Ashley Fox-Jensen is a scholar in digital humanities and design, with research specialising in accessible digital infrastructure, AI-generated synthetic media, and democratic resilience. She is Visiting Assistant Professor in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she teaches in the Master of Library and Information Science programme in the School of Education and Information Studies during the autumn of 2026, supported by a competitive STINT awarded in 2025. She is also a Visiting Scholar at New York University's (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering, in the Department of Technology, Culture and Society, with a research exchange with the Integrated Design and Media programme.

From 2019 to 2026 she was Lecturer at Malmö University's School of Arts and Communication (K3), Faculty of Culture and Society, teaching across the Design, Interaction Design, Product Design, and Media Studies and Communications programmes at Bachelor's and Master's levels, and serving as Co-Programme Director of the Design Bachelor's programme. Across ten years at Malmö University and the Royal Danish Academy she has supervised Bachelor's and Master's theses and acted as examiner for thesis projects. She is founder and Principal Investigator of the Deepfake Democracy Project, which began as a Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) within the Sustainable Digitalisation Research Centre (SDRC) at Malmö University, and served as VIP Programme Coordinator for the School of Arts and Communication in 2025 and 2026.

Her PhD in Digital Humanities ( University of London’s School of Advanced Study, 2021 – 2025) her dissertation produced the first methodological framework for accessible digital catalogue raisonnés. The dissertation, 'Designing an Accessible and Sustainable Digital Catalogue Raisonné: Interdisciplinary Approaches and the Case of Ted Stamm,' examines catalogue raisonné development across art history, design, digital humanities, and textual scholarship. A monograph based on this research, Digital Catalogues Raisonnés: Design, Access, and Sustainability in Art Historical Scholarship, is under contract with Routledge in the Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities series (expected 2028). Supervisors included Jane Winters, Christopher Ohge, and Francesca Benatti; external examiners were Gabriel Bodard and Kristen Schuster. Mid-term reviewers included Richard Gartner (Warburg Library) and Tiffany Bell (Editor, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin and Dan Flavin Catalogue Raisonnés). The thesis was defended in March 2025 and is deposited in SAS Space.

Fox-Jensen was appointed External Expert by Denmark’s Ministry of Education and Research (UFM, 2026 – 2030) across eight subject areas: Communication, Interactive Media, Information Science, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Cognitive and Data Science, Ancient History, and Cultural Heritage Studies. Since 2022, she has served on the advisory board of The Greater Sum Foundation. In 2025, she served as an invited evaluator for SAS’s RESHAPED Doctoral Centre Research Training initiative at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Her research advances across two tracks. Track One, “specialist research” in design and digital humanities, is anchored in the Ted Stamm Catalogue Raisonné (2011 – present) and the forthcoming Routledge monograph. Track Two, “urgent research” on AI and democratic resilience, is led through the Deepfake Democracy Project, which examines how AI-generated video deepfakes deployed in electoral and political communication threaten democratic resilience in European and Nordic contexts.

Fox-Jensen is affiliated with multiple international research networks, including SDRC, Future Society and Democracy in Europe Research Group (CEMES), the Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN), the Centre for Practice-based Art Studies (PASS), University of Copenhagen), the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association (CRSA), and the International Catalogue Raisonné Association (ICRA).

Previously, she held teaching positions at the Royal Danish Academy (formerly KADK), Copenhagen (2016 – 2019) and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York (2004 – 2010).

Her book design for ABC (Carlsen, 2014) by Knud Romer and visuals by John Kørner received the Danish Book Design Award from Forening for Boghåndværk in 2015. The book has been adapted for stage (BaggårdTeatret/sART Danseteater/Den Fynske Opera, premiered 2017, touring through 2022) and set to music by composer Bent Sørensen for Sankt Annæ Pigekor (2019).

Alongside the design practice, Fox-Jensen has served as Lead Editor of the Ted Stamm Catalogue Raisonné since 2011. That work includes international collaborations with the University of Chicago, Smart Museum, and Hunter College (CUNY). Research is supported by the Jeff Metcalf Internship Program at the University of Chicago (2022 – present), through which twelve research interns have been trained in archival digitisation and metadata development, with over 7,500 archival documents digitised to date. From 2014 to 2017, she also provided exhibition design and publication support for Hunter College Art Galleries across the Leubsdorf Gallery and 205 Hudson Gallery. She is lead researcher and co-author of the forthcoming monograph Ted Stamm: Participatory-Based Works, with Professor Graham Bader (Rice University), Philip Kelleher (University of Houston–Clear Lake), Isa Rosario-Blake (Yale), and Per Haubro Jensen (Ted Stamm Estate).

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