Conclusion & Acknowledgements

Jennifer Grayburn has worked in digital scholarship centers at the University of Virginia and Temple University libraries. Her research focuses on the use of digital resources to support teaching and research. EdSurge, CBC/Radio Canada, and the Carnegie Museum of Art have featured her work on photogrammetry and 3D printing for higher education and cultural heritage institutions. She has supported programs and course assignments using 360-degree video, 3D printing, GIS, text analysis, and virtual reality in a variety of disciplines. She has also contributed to two CLIR reports on the role of academic libraries to support critical making and digital research workflows. Jennifer continues her own research on medieval Scandinavian art and literature and recently presented her 3D GIS project at the Getty-funded Advanced Topics in Digital Art History summer institute.

Carrie Johnston is the digital humanities research designer in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University, where she partners with faculty to develop innovative methods of curating and publishing research data. She holds a PhD in English literature from Southern Methodist University. Her work has appeared in College Literature, American Quarterly, Amerikastudien / American Studies, Studies in the Novel, and various edited collections. Prior to her current appointment at Wake Forest, she was a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Scholarship at Bucknell University.

Annie Johnson is the assistant director for Open Publishing Initiatives and Scholarly Communications at Temple University Libraries and Press. In this position, she leads initiatives within the Libraries and Press to help make Temple research and scholarship publicly available. Annie holds a PhD in history from the University of Southern California.

Petrouchka Moïse received her Doctorate of Design in Cultural Preservation from the Louisiana State University College of Art and Design. As a Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Haitian Visual Arts, she works jointly with Grinnell College Libraries staff and the Waterloo Cultural Center. Dr. Moïse plays a central role in coordinating the work of the Haitian Art: A Digital Crossroads project (HADC). The HADC aims to make the Haitian art collection of the Waterloo Center for the Arts the largest publicly held collection of Haitian art in the world, digitally accessible as a preparatory study for the creation of a digital hub for a network of online resources in Haitian and Caribbean studies. In addition to managing this project, she collaborates with cultural and academic institutes within Haiti and the Diaspora to build awareness of this collection.

Aditya Ranganath is a data librarian at the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship (CRDDS) at the University of Colorado, Boulder Libraries. Prior to his appointment at CU Boulder, he was a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in geospatial data curation at New York University Libraries. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, San Diego.

Ece Turnator was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. She came to the US for graduate school and received her PhD in medieval (Byzantine) history from Harvard University in 2013. Between 2013 and 2016, she was a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin Libraries and the English Department. Since 2016 she has worked as the humanities and digital scholarship librarian at MIT Libraries. In this podcast series, she explores the many ways that Indigenous archivists, librarians, scholars/scientists, and their allies are building powerful new archival content with the goal of helping to forge new futures for their respective communities.

Laura Wilson received her PhD in English literature from the University of Mississippi. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for African American Studies, she is jointly employed by the John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, and the Department of History and Political Science. She assists in the planning and development of a new database for the Julius Rosenwald Fund Collections; using material from this collection she teaches an undergraduate history course combining African American studies with data science. As a researcher, Laura uses the Rosenwald archive to continue to pursue interests in African American modernity and material culture—her research examines intersections of race and the environment in the early 20th century.

Justin Schell is the director of the Shapiro Design Lab, a peer and engaged learning community at the University of Michigan Library. His work in the Lab revolves around facilitating student learning and project development in areas such as publicly engaged scholarship, community and citizen science, accessibility and disability justice, media production, and more. He holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota’s Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society program, where he completed a multimodal dissertation on immigrant and disaporic hip-hop in Minnesota. He was a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota Libraries. While there, he founded the Minnesota Hip-Hop Collection, part of the Libraries’ Givens Collection. In addition to his library work, Justin is a filmmaker, visual artist, and podcast producer.

Rachel Starry is currently the digital scholarship librarian at the University of California, Riverside Library, where she serves as the Digital Scholarship Program lead and supports digital research, pedagogy, and publishing activities. Previously, after receiving her PhD in classical and Near Eastern archaeology from Bryn Mawr College, she was the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Science Data Curation at the University at Buffalo Libraries. Prior to UB, Rachel worked with both the digital scholarship program and the Special Collections Department in Library and Information Technology (LITS) at Bryn Mawr College.

Marta Brunner is college librarian at Skidmore College. Prior to joining Skidmore in 2015, Marta held leadership positions in the Powell Library and Charles E. Young Research Library at the University of California, Los Angeles. She came to UCLA as a CLIR postdoctoral fellow. She holds a PhD in the history of consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a master’s in English (rhetoric, composition, and the teaching of English) from the University of Arizona, and a BA in English from Goshen College. Her areas of teaching and research have covered social movement history and literature of the United States, scholarly communication, librarianship, and English as a Second Language.

Sean Tennant is the archaeology data manager for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Previously, he was the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in the library at Union College. Sean has a PhD and MA in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology from the University of Virginia and a BA in history from George Mason University. His research focuses on large-scale data analysis in archaeology, GIS-based spatial analysis, and network-based approaches to data science.

Matthew Sisk is a geospatial data scientist based in Notre Dame’s Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship. He received his BS from the University of South Carolina in marine science and anthropology and his MA and PhD in paleolithic archaeology from Stony Brook University in 2011 and has worked extensively in GIS-based archaeology and ecological modeling. His research focuses on human- environment interactions, the spatial scale environmental toxins and community-based research.

Rebecca Y. Bayeck is an assistant professor in Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University and holds a dual-PhD in Learning Design and Technology and Comparative and International Education from the Pennsylvania State University.  Her interdisciplinary research is at the interface of several fields including, the learning sciences, literacy studies, and game studies. At this intersection, she explores literacies and learning in games, particularly board games, the interaction of culture, space, and context on design, learning, research, literacies.

Smiti Nathan is an anthropologist and archaeologist working at the intersection of various design fields. Her archaeological research focuses on human decision-making strategies in ancient Oman and Ethiopia. She is currently a senior UX researcher at a private company where she designs and conducts user research as part of multidisciplinary teams working on complex projects. In addition, she consults for organizations interested in small-group workshops on life design.

Alex Wermer-Colan is the digital scholarship coordinator at Temple University Libraries’ Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio, where he directs research and pedagogical projects integrating emerging technologies across the disciplines. His research and teaching focus on rethinking approaches to digital collections for scholarly and pedagogical purposes, especially in relation to the collections as data movement, the digital humanities field of cultural analytics, recent trends in digital media arts, and emerging technologies for web curation, game-based learning, and immersive visualization.