Karen Rose Mathews is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Miami. She has an active research agenda in the digital humanities, publishing articles on the use of digital technologies in the classroom and creating Augmented Reality (AR) applications for the visualization of historic architecture.
She was selected as a President’s Academic Innovation Fellow at the University of Miami (2021) and has received a Provost’s Research Award (2015), a University of Miami Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities (2018), and two grants for research on XR technologies funded by the UM XR Initiative (2021) and the Magic Leap Development Initiative (2019).
Before joining the faculty at the University of Miami, she held faculty positions at the University of Washington, the University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of Colorado, Denver, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Notre Dame.