NOTE: The sponsoring institution where the fellow is
conducting/conducted their postdoctoral fellowship is in parantheses.
Lauren Coats (Lehigh
University) received her Ph.D. in english at Duke University where she
researched representations of mobility and geography in American literature and
culture. At Lehigh, she is working on several digital and information resource
initiatives, including developing a digital scholarship Web site built around
Lehigh's collection of travel and exploration narratives and maps and editing a
digital scholarly edition of an eighteenth-century work, part of Lehigh
University Press's new digital manuscript edition series.
Danielle Culpepper
(Johns Hopkins University) received her Ph.D. in early modern Italian history
from the University of Virginia and is now in the second year of her
fellowship. She works in the Special Collections department of the Sheridan Libraries'
George Peabody Library, and has supplemented her fellowship with classes at the
Rare Book School. Her fellowship projects include outreach with faculty,
graduate students, and undergraduates, assessing the strengths and preservation
needs of the George Peabody Library's collections, and planning a major
exhibition and symposium on the works of the Venetian architect Andrea
Palladio.
Erica Doerhoff
(Pepperdine University) received her Ph.D. in German studies from Cornell
University. She is helping to implement the first institutional wiki at
Pepperdine and is also involved
with strategic planning for a university-wide podcasting system. Additionally,
Doerhoff is assisting in developing policies and procedures for an
institutional repository and is working with faculty to develop and curate
digital collections.
Caroline E. Kelley (University
of California, Los Angeles) completed her graduate work at Oxford University in
modern languages and women's studies. Currently in the second year of her
Fellowship at UCLA's Young Research Library, she is managing a UCLA/Center for
Research Libraries/Global Resources Network Forum on Global Migration slated
for February 2008. Kelley is also working on a federated search engine on
"Women and US Social Movements" for faculty and graduate students, a
digital collection of colonial women's travel writing for teaching and research,
an undergraduate research guide on the Berber Maghreb, and a collection
assessment of monographs and serials published in France and North Africa.
Cecily Marcus (University of Minnesota Libraries) received her Ph.D. from the department of comparative studies in discourse and society at the University of Minnesota. During her fellowship, she is project director of EthicShare, a Web site and virtual community for bioethics and ethics scholars that brings together the scholarly literature of the fields of practical ethics to provide an environment for discovery and collaboration. She is also co-chairing a committee on information literacy, and is a member of committees on external funding and portal development.
Lori Miller (Appalachian College Association), who earned a Ph.D. in history from Indiana University, is working with faculty and librarians from 37 ACA member institutions to increase the use of electronic resources provided through the Bowen Central Library of Appalachia. She serves as the ACA's liaison to the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and is planning for a strategic consortium-wide initiative on information literacy that will investigate ways in which ACA member colleges might work together to assess and improve information literacy and mastery among their students.
Wesley Raabe (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) earned his Ph.D. in English language and literature at the University of Virginia. Now in his second year of his postdoctoral fellowship, he is the project manager and associate editor of Civil War Washington: Studies in Transformation." Raabe is preparing an electronic critical edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin and an edition of the letters of Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, the mother of poet Walt Whitman.
Timothy Stinson (Johns
Hopkins University) earned his Ph.D. in english from the University of Virginia
and is currently in the second year of his postdoctoral fellowship. He has a
joint appointment in the Digital Research and Curation Center, where he works
on the Roman de la Rose Digital Library,
which is developing best practices for offering digital surrogates of medieval
manuscripts, and in the Department of English, where he teaches courses on
medieval English literature.
Elizabeth Waraksa (University of California, Los Angeles) received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies (Egyptian Art and Archaeology) from the Johns Hopkins University. Her fellowship at UCLA's Young Research Library focuses primarily on a Web portal for resources relating to the ancient Near East and Egypt. She is also assisting with collection development.
Susan L. Wiesner (University of Virginia) received her Ph.D. in dance studies and computational linguistics from the University of Surrey in Guildford, England. At UVA she is acting as the subject librarian for dance and drama, assessing current holdings, catalogue records, and managing the Web portal. As a member of the Robertson Media Centre, Wiesner is also planning a lecture series on the dance films in the university's collection and as part of her ARTeFACT project is developing the first proof-of-concept for an institutional memory of multi-media materials.
Tracie L. Wilson (Bryn Mawr College) received a Ph.D. in folklore and ethnomusicology and a Master's degree in Russian and East European Studies from Indiana University. From 2006-2007, she was a fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she developed an online oral history project and a folklore resources Web page for the university library. Currently at Bryn Mawr, she is developing an online database and exhibit for the Katrina Thomas Ethnic Wedding Photograph Collection. Thomas, a freelance journalist, spent 30 years documenting ethnic weddings in the United States.
Marlene Allen (University of California, Los Angeles) earned her Ph.D. in english from the University of Georgia. During her fellowship, she analyzed library holdings in African American Studies, served on a committee for an exhibit entitled "Forming and Transforming the City: African Americans in Los Angeles," and performed quality control on California Cultures, a digital project of the Online Archive of California.
Ali Anooshahr (University of California, Los Angeles) received his Ph.D. in history at UCLA. He spent his fellowship in UCLA's Department of Special Collections, Young Research Library, where he identified and processed the many thousands of volumes of Arabic Ottoman and Persian manuscripts.
Marta Brunner (University of California, Los Angeles) earned her Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California-Santa Cruz, specializing in U.S. history and literature. She is currently the librarian for English and American literature, comparative literature, and folklore at UCLA's Charles E. Young Research Library. In this capacity, she develops and manages collections, provides reference and instruction, and collaborates on a variety of projects, including a pilot project to digitize a selection of oral histories related to Los Angeles social movement history.
Arica Coleman (Johns Hopkins University) received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the Union Institute and University. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on race and identity within the historical and contemporary context for people of African-Native ancestry in the United States. During her fellowship, she worked in the Center for Educational Resources and as a lecturer in the History Department.
Sigrid Anderson Cordell (Princeton
University) received her Ph.D. in english at the University of Virginia. She is
currently a preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard University, where she is
teaching writing-intensive courses on nineteenth-century literature. Her fellowship
experience helped make integrating writing, textual analysis, and library
research a priority in her teaching.
Amanda French (North Carolina State University) earned her Ph.D. in english at the University of Virginia, and is currently Coordinator of E-Learning and Reserves Services at Emory University. Previously, she was a Teaching Assistant Professor in the English Department at NCSU. As a CLIR Fellow she managed the North Carolina Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project, a project to digitize a large collection of recordings held by the North Carolina Language and Life Project.
Patricia Hswe (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) earned her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University and is currently in her second and final year of the Master's program in Library and Information Science at UIUC. Her fellowship focused on digital libraries, with particular emphasis on metadata standards and creation; use, usability, and users of digital resources; humanities data curation and issues regarding cyberinfrastructure in the humanities; and the information literacy needs of beginning graduate students (vis-a-vis enabling early and widespread adoption of digital library resources in their future teaching and research).
Ben Huang (University of Southern California) received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and is continuing his association with the USC library, developing a particular interest in special collections pertaining to China. He is currently doing research on the work of Eileen Chang, the author of "Lust, Caution," the short story that forms the basis of the award-winning film by Ang Lee.
Janet Kaaya (UCLA) earned her doctorate in information studies at UCLA in 2006. She is working with the UCLA Research Library's Collections, Research, and Instructional Services on the identification, assessment, description, and dissemination of African-language information resources. She is in the second year of her fellowship.
Kelly Miller (University
of Virginia) earned her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the
University of Michigan. Currently, she is Assistant to the Deputy University
Librarian at the University of Virginia Library and Research Associate for the Scholarly
Communication Institute, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and hosted
by the University of Virginia Library.
She is working on plans for the future renovation of Alderman Library,
the flagship building of the University of Virginia Library system. This
includes reconceptualizing the physical building in consultation with an
architectural firm that specializes in technology-rich learning environments,
and a reorganization of the library's programs. Miller also serves as a
Lecturer in the Departments of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Art History
at U.Va., teaching courses on Russian culture and art.
Michelle Morton (University of California, Berkeley) earned her Ph.D. in literature from UC Santa Cruz and is currently in her second year of library school at San Jose State University. She is also working in the Green Library at Stanford University and teaching a Latin American novel course at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her current research interests include historical records of Mexican California, local history collections and programs, library outreach and collaborations with students and faculty, and digitization and digital preservation.
Meg Norcia (Lehigh University) received her Ph.D. in victorian children's literature at the University of Florida and is currently an assistant professor of children's and young adult literatures at SUNY Brockport. Norcia is working with library and technology services organizations on a project focusing on archival children's picture books and the student production of original illustrations for children's stories.
Allyson Polsky-McCabe (Johns Hopkins University) earned her Ph.D. in human sciences at George Washington University and is a Lecturer in English at Yale University. Previously, she was Director of the Teaching Assistant Training Institute and a pedagogy specialist/senior information technology specialist at Johns Hopkins University, a position she accepted during her postdoctoral fellowship.
Daphnée Rentfrow (Yale University) has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Brown University and is in the last semester of the MLIS program at UIUC. She is a consultant for CLIR and other organizations working on library and digital projects. Rentfrow used the experiences of her Fellowship to better integrate collaboration with librarians into her course design, developing course assignments that promote advanced library and Web research skills and technology in the writing process. She has been an invited speaker at several universities, sharing her advice on library-faculty collaboration, information literacy, digital projects, and library outreach initiatives.
Dawn Schmitz (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) earned her Ph.D. in communication at the University of Pittsburgh and is currently writing a report for CLIR about user studies, institutional repositories, and mass digitization efforts. While a Fellow at UIUC, she worked closely with the english and history librarians coordinating a project to preserve and digitize trade journals of the vaudeville era.
Rachel E. Shuttlesworth
(University of Alabama) earned her Ph.D. in applied linguistics at the University
of Alabama and is currently the Coordinator of Faculty Development in the
Faculty Resource Center there. She helps faculty learn about technology, specifically
the UA learning management system, and incorporate it into their classes. She
continues to investigate issues related to linguistics and information
technology.
Amanda Watson (University
of Virginia), who earned her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature at the
University of Michigan, works as a Reference and Instruction Intern at the
Swarthmore College Library. She is working on several collection development
projects and is contributing to the forthcoming ALA Guide to Reference,
12th ed. She is also pursuing her MSLIS degree at Drexel University in
Philadelphia, and plans to graduate in the summer of 2008.
Christa Williford (Bryn Mawr College) earned her Ph.D. in theater history, literature and criticism at Indiana University. She is studying for her MLIS degree at the University of Washington and is the User Services Librarian at Haverford College.