Associate Dean Gibbs has been a member of the History Department at UNM since 2013, serving as its Undergraduate Director from 2018-2022. As a digital humanist, he explores how to leverage emerging technologies to bring historical awareness into everyday life through sustainable digital public history projects that combine data analysis, visualization, interactivity, and storytelling. As a historian of medicine, Gibbs examines the cultural construction of dietary advice; his current project examines the long and revealing history of "natural" food and diets. His first book untangles medieval and early modern physicians' debates about the relationship between food, medicine, poison, and disease. Before arriving in New Mexico, he served as Director of Digital Scholarship at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University where he helped lead numerous pioneering digital humanities projects. Gibbs earned his MA and PhD in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. In his role as associate dean for curriculum, he hopes to facilitate new collaborations across disciplines, foster creative pedagogy, encourage a forward-thinking curriculum, and maximize student opportunities across our wonderfully diverse College.