Dani M. Willcutt

A woman with blonde hair, wearing glasses, a navy blue dress with white polka dots, and a necklace, smiling outdoors with a blurred green background.

US Labor & Culture Historian specializing in web publishing, digital collections management, and curation with 12+ years in business development and entrepreneurship, and cultural heritage management.

Dr. Dani M. Willcutt is a Training Specialist for the Omeka platforms with the Corporation for Digital Scholarship. She also works privately as a historical consultant, and designs digitally-based and publicly-accessible Cultural Heritage, Archival and Historical Projects. She holds an M.A. in Gastronomy from Boston University and received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University where she wrote a dissertation examining issues in the labor dynamics of the Restaurant Industry.

Digital Project Portfolio

Logo featuring a stylized Fibonacci spiral with geometric lines, and the word 'omeka' below it, on a dark red background.
A watercolor painting depicting a historical outdoor gathering with people dressed in 19th-century clothing, surrounded by trees, with a building and flag in the background. The title overlay reads 'Honoris Causa: Sewanee, the Lost Cause, and Honorary Degrees.'
Sign for Jim's Tiffany Place with decorative Tiffany-style lamps hanging above.
A promotional graphic for the Sewanee Praises event, featuring the Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. The graphic includes a black-and-white portrait of a person wearing glasses in a circle, and text with the project name, organization, and contact information, all on a blue background.
The title page of an old cookbook titled 'A Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Recipes for the Kitchen' by Mrs. Malinda Russell, published in 1866, printed by T. O. Ward at the 'True Northern' Office in Paw Paw, Michigan.
“DH means being able to continue thinking creatively about how to present my own research and how to collaborate with other scholars on scholarly and public-facing projects.”
— Dani Willcutt, "What DH Means to Me"