Current and Previous Fellows

2013 Fellows

The sponsoring institution where the fellow is conducting/conducted their postdoctoral fellowship is in parentheses.

Katherine Akers (University of Michigan) earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of New Mexico. During her fellowship, she will be a member of the Science, Engineering and Clark Library where she will work on a range of issues covering research data collection, management, preservation, publication and instruction. Previously, she researched the connections between brain and behavior, with projects focusing on how early life experience influences brain development, how animals learn to navigate spatially through their environment, and how new neurons generated during adulthood play a role in memory. She previously completed a one-year fellowship at Emory University.

Sayan Bhattacharyya (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/HathiTrust Research Center) received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan. Based at both the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) and the University Library’s Scholarly Commons, he will collaborate with a multidisciplinary group of faculty and doctoral students on the research agenda and future of the HTRC and will design services within the Scholarly Commons for scholars using the HTRC.

Alexandra Bolintineanu (University of Toronto) earned her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto. During her two-year fellowship, she will be based in The Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS) and Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) where she will be conducting a review of current practices and support services in data curation in Medieval Studies with guidance from the steering group of the Consortium of Digital Medieval Studies. She will also consult with University scholars, other digital humanists, curators and developers in the University’s Information Technology Services, and faculty from the Digital Curation Institute in UofT’s iSchool.

Jonathan Cachat (University of California, Davis) earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Tulane University. During his two-year fellowship in neuroscientific data curation and informatics, he will be based in the University’s Health and Life Sciences Library as a member of a new e-science team. He will work with faculty, graduate students, researchers, and library staff to develop strategies and programs for the collection, description, organization, normalization, storage, preservation, integration, visualization, and mining of data across the spectrum of neuroscience programs on campus.

Amy Chen (University of Alabama) earned her Ph.D. in English from Emory University. She will be working on outreach services for the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, which includes rare books, Alabamiana, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, photographs, book arts, and artifacts. Her responsibilities include updating LibGuides, planning and organizing exhibits, offering class instruction, and creating a guide to the Wade Hall Collection.

Margarita Corral (Brandeis University) earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Vanderbilt University. During her one-year fellowship, she will provide professional leadership in the design and provision of use of library outreach materials; conceptualize and plan a program for library and information technology (IT) professionals to consult with researchers on quantitative and qualitative methods, tools, and analytics; and consult with researchers to identify library and IT partnership opportunities that advance the social science research agenda.

Matthew Davis (North Carolina State University) received his Ph.D. in English with a Certficate in Digital Humanities from Texas A&M University. During his two-year fellowship, he will serve as a liaison among academic departments, faculty researchers, and the Digital Libraries Initiatives (DLI) Department on NCSU’s campus. He will also work on four NCSU-based projects involving data curation in Medieval Studies: the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA); the Manuscript DNA project; the Siege of Jerusalem Electronic Archive (SJEA); and the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (PPEA).

Jodi Flores (Arizona State University) received her Ph.D.in Archaeology from the University of Exeter, England. Her fellowship, which is based in ASU’s Center for Digital Antiquity and the ASU Libraries, combines direct experience curating digital archaeological data while conducting individual or collaborative research. The Center for Digital Antiquity oversees the use, development and maintenance of tDAR (the Digital Archaeological Record), an international repository of digital data and documents from archaeological investigations. She will contribute to the development and expansion of tDAR.

Nikolaus Fogle (Villanova University) earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Temple University. He will plan and coordinate the work of the Philosophy, Theology, and Humanities liaison team, including collection development, course-integrated information literacy instruction, faculty research assistance, student research consultation services, and the formal and informal connection of pertinent academic departments to all library programs. He will also support emerging digital humanities efforts, open access publishing projects, and other initiatives.

John Kratz (California Digital Library) earned his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Columbia University. During his two-year fellowship, he will focus on data publication, including its potential value as a scholarly endeavor that contributes to data sharing, reuse, and preservation. He will conduct an analysis of existing data publication initiatives, investigate the role of University of California (UC) libraries in the data publication space, and explore the potential for applying altmetrics to a UC data publication service, among other responsibilities.

Anjum Najmi (University of North Texas) earned her Ph.D. in Educational Computing from the University of North Texas. As the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Scholarly Communication, she will help evaluate and implement best practices in scholarly communications practices across the UNT campus. She will be based in the new Digital Scholarship Co-operative http://disco.unt.edu/, an initiative that fosters the creative development and use of digital resources for research, teaching, and learning. The Co-Op is affiliated with the UNT Libraries, and serves researchers, faculty, and students from across disciplines.

Hannah Rasmussen (Harvard Business School) received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from Western University in Canada. As the Postdoctoral Fellow in Knowledge and Library Services, she will be responsible for an in-depth study on establishing the 21st century academic business management library, concentrating on such topics as digital scholarship, data management, digital preservation, and metadata repositories. She will also research and analyze emerging trends in these areas, both in academic libraries and the information industry.

Katie Rawson (University of Pennsylvania) earned her Ph.D. in the Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University. As the Digital Humanities Research Fellow, she will work in partnership with the newly renovated Special Collections Center, the Weigle Information Commons,and library subject specialists in the humanities and area studies. She will develop and implement digital projects and tools, investigate and evaluate emerging tools and technologies for their potential application to humanities research, and engage in new modes of pedagogy, among other responsibilities.

Kendall Roark (University of Alberta) received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Temple University. During her two-year fellowship, she will work with professional staff within the University libraries, the University of Alberta Research Ethics Office, and the University of Alberta Health Law Institute to investigate data management practices, norms, policies, and infrastructure in health research that improve methods for sharing sensitive, private, or proprietary data.

Tamsyn Rose-Steel (Johns Hopkins University) received her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Exeter, England. As the Digital Medieval Manuscripts Fellow, she will contribute to the strategic development of tools and resources related to Medieval Studies scholarship and teaching both at the national and international level through collaboration with partners in the United States, Canada, England, Central Europe, and Europe, and at Hopkins by participating in developing the Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts (DLMM).

Justin Schell (University of Minnesota) received his Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota. During his two-year fellowship, he will focus on supporting digital arts and digital humanities scholarship and investigating current and emerging collaborative research practices. He will also play a lead role in the development and implementation of a study of the research behaviors of faculty and graduate students, with a particular emphasis on the ways in which collaborative research arrangements are changing practice and indicate new service requirements.

Matthew Sisk (University of Notre Dame) received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stony Brook University. As the Data Services Postdoctoral Fellow, he will work closely with library and teaching and research faculty to select, acquire, manage, deliver, and store numeric data collections to support campus research and scholarship. His responsibilities include building data collections and facilitating access to additional data resources, engaging in outreach to faculty and students through subject and departmental liaison activities; and designing and conducting data literacy and data visualization instruction.

Colleen Strawhacker (University of Colorado at Boulder/National Snow and Ice Data Center) earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Arizona State University. NSIDC, which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, serves as a national information and referral center in support of snow and ice research. During her two-year fellowship, she will help define social science data archival and usage requirements for the Advanced Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (ACADIS) and related NSIDC systems. ACADIS is a collaborative effort with the National Center for Atmospheric Research to provide data archiving and access for all projects funded by the National Science Foundation’s interdisciplinary Arctic Science Program, including Arctic Social Sciences.

Ece Turnator (University of Texas-Austin) earned her Ph.D. in History from Harvard University. Her two-year fellowship is based in the Department of English in collaboration with the University of Texas Libraries, and the Texas Advanced Computing Center. She will work on MAPPAMUNDI, the digital entity of the Global Middle Ages Project (G-MAP) founded and codirected by Professor Geraldine Heng at the University of Texas and Professor Susan Noakes of the University of Minnesota. MAPPAMUNDI will form a gateway to all the digital resources currently available on a global Middle Ages, and offer opportunities to tag, aggregate, layer, and analyze data in ways that enable each user to create an individualized and kaleidoscopic understanding of the world in deep time.

Christa Vogelius (University of Alabama) received her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan. She will help design and execute a plan to catalog and digitize an exceptionally large and diverse photographic archive relating to the history and culture of the South. The archive, which is housed in the A. S. Williams III Americana Collection, spans the period 1850 to 1960 and includes images ranging from those produced by such major 19th-century photographers as Alexander Gardner and the African American daguerreotypist Augustus Washington to those by commercial and amateur photographers of the 20th-century.

Bridget Whearty (Stanford University) received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Stanford University. During her two-year fellowship, she will explore and expand the realm of emerging tools and standards for the curation, annotation, and analysis of digital medieval resources. She will apply and test the methods and technologies being developed in Stanford University Libraries’ interoperable initiatives, focusing on Stanford’s growing corpus of medieval resources, faculty research and pedagogical objectives, and her own field of expertise. This includes curating data sets by identifying, aggregating, transforming and integrating resources from multiple sources.

Donna Wrublewski (California Institute of Technology) earned her Ph.D. in Polymer Science & Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. During her fellowship, she is serving as the chemistry and biological science subject-matter expert and performs instructional, information and research services, including developing new directions in institutional repositories, eScience, and data curation. She also establishes and maintains regular contact with faculty, researchers, and department library user groups.

Continuing Current Fellows

Benjamin Dewayne Branch (Purdue University) earned his doctorate degree from North Carolina State University in Educational Research and Policy Analysis. During his fellowship, he will develop information delivery and visualization tools and instruction in support of the data services and information literacy missions of the Purdue University Libraries. He will work with the Libraries’ GIS Information Specialist to develop GIS-related instructional programs, seminars and workshops, as well as the refine and deliver an upper-undergraduate/graduate-level Geoinformatics course.

Peter Broadwell (UCLA) received his Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles.  Based in the Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL), he is planning and developing the delivery of collection content and information services to humanities and social sciences scholars as part of a major programmatic redesign of the YRL.  He is also using research methodologies to develop and implement assessment projects analyzing what needs the library meets for scholars and which needs are not being met.

Jason Brodeur (McMaster University) received his Ph.D. in Geography and Earth Sciences from McMaster University. He is helping to oversee the data management plans for the library in terms of how it acquires, codes, organizes, and distributes research data within its collection.  He is also teaching a number of courses, as well as working to develop Google Earth-based modules for outreach and education in Physical Geography and Geology.

Vessela Ensberg (University of California Los Angeles) earned her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her fellowship she is working with faculty, graduate students, researchers, and Library staff to implement the Library’s eScience strategy. She will be part of a collaborative effort to develop the Library’s data services by serving as a representative of and a liaison to the scientific community.

Inna Kouper (Indiana University) received her Ph.D. in Information Science from Indiana University. Her fellowship is based within the Data to Insight Center (D2I) at IU and focuses on collaborative initiatives between D2I and the IU Libraries. These include cornerstone research projects of the center such as the National Science Foundation-funded DataNet SEAD (Sustainable Environment-Actionable Data) Virtual Archive, the HathiTrust Research Center, and work on non-consumptive research methodologies funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Natsuko Hayashi Nicholls (University of Michigan) earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. During her fellowship, she will conduct research and assessment related to data curation services offered to researchers in the social sciences across the University of Michigan campus.

Fe Consolacion Sferdean (University of Michigan) earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. During her fellowship, she will conduct research and assessment related to data curation services offered to researchers in the sciences across the University of Michigan campus.

Ting Wang (Lehigh University) received her Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During her fellowship, she is working to assess and meet the data management needs of researchers in the Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) and connected with Lehigh's Environmental Initiative. She is part of the LTS support team for the College of Arts and Sciences, which includes librarians, computing consultants, and an instructional technologist, and also works closely with Lehigh's Web and GIS specialist and with members of the LTS High Performance Computing Team.

Wei Yang (McMaster University) earned his Ph.D. in Economics from McMaster University. Based at the Statistics Canada Research Data Centre at McMaster, he works closely with University Library staff and will make recommendations relating to social sciences data management plans for the library.

Former Fellows

Jessica Aberle (Lehigh University)
Marlene Allen (University of California, Los Angeles)
Ali Anooshahr (University of California, Los Angeles)
Erin Aspenlieder (McMaster University)
Andrew Asher (Bucknell University)
Tamar Boyadjian (University of California, Los Angeles)
Anne Bruder (Bryn Mawr College)
Marta Brunner (University of California, Los Angeles)
Gloria Chacon (University of California, Los Angeles)
Daniel Chamberlain (Occidental College)
Lauren Coats (Lehigh University)
Arica Coleman (Johns Hopkins University)
Sigrid Anderson Cordell (Princeton University)
Brian Croxall (Emory University)
Danielle Culpepper (Johns Hopkins University)
Gabrielle Dean (Johns Hopkins University)
Erica Doerhoff (Pepperdine University)
Arthur (Mitch) Fraas (University of Pennsylvania)
Amanda French (North Carolina State University)
Melissa Grafe (Lehigh University)
Patricia Hswe (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Ben Huang (University of Southern California)
Korey Jackson (University of Michigan)
Timothy F. Jackson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Lori Jahnke (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Janet Kaaya (University of California, Los Angeles)
Caroline E. Kelley (University of California, Los Angeles)
Spencer Keralis (University of North Texas)
Matthew J. Lavin (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
John Maclachlan (McMaster University)
Cecily Marcus (University of Minnesota Libraries)
Kelly Miller (University of Virginia)
Lori Miller (Appalachian College Association)
Michelle Morton (University of California, Berkeley)
Ekaterina Neklyudova (McMaster University)
Meg Norcia (Lehigh University)
Julia Osman (Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records)
Jennifer Parrott (Bucknell University)
Allyson Polsky-McCabe (Johns Hopkins University)
Wesley Raabe (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Jennifer Redmond (Bryn Mawr College)
Daphnée Rentfrow (Yale University)
Dawn Schmitz (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Donald Sells (McMaster University)
Yi Shen (Johns Hopkins University)
Noah Shenker (McMaster University)
Rachel E. Shuttlesworth (University of Alabama)
Mike Snowdon (McMaster University)
Timothy Stinson (Johns Hopkins University)
Christopher Teeter (McMaster University)
Nicole Wagner (McMaster University)
Heather Waldroup (Claremont University Consortium)
Elizabeth Waraksa (University of California, Los Angeles)
Amanda Watson (University of Virginia)
Susan L. Wiesner (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), (University of Virginia)
Christa Williford (Bryn Mawr College)
Tracie L. Wilson (Bryn Mawr College)