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The sponsoring institution where the fellow is conducting/conducted their postdoctoral fellowship is in parentheses.
Anne Bruder (Bryn Mawr College) received her Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is coordinating Bryn Mawr's 125th anniversary celebration, organizing an international conference on women's higher education, editing a scholarly volume of proceedings from the conference, and working on a history of the College, including conducting oral histories with notable faculty and alumnae. Anne will also teach courses on American literature in the Bryn Mawr English Department.
Gloria Chacon (University of California, Los Angeles) received her Ph.D. in literature with a parenthetical degree notation in Latin American and Latino Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. In the second year of her fellowship at UCLA's Young Research Library, she will continue to work on collection development, analysis, and management activities that support teaching and research programs in Central American languages. She will also continue to develop a Web-based guide or portal for students and faculty for specialized resources related to the ancient and modern usage of indigenous Central American languages, focusing on contemporary Mayan language printed materials, and the community working with them.
Daniel Chamberlain (Occidental College) earned his Ph.D. in Critical Studies at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. His fellowship is based at the Center for Digital Learning and Research where he will focus on digital modes and tools for teaching and research. Working closely with faculty and staff, he will also help develop visual and textual collections and lead workshops on issues pertaining to the development and use of digital materials and technologies.
Melissa Grafe (Lehigh University) received her Ph.D. in the History of Medicine from Johns Hopkins University. She will work on the following three major projects during her fellowship: explore the best way to incorporate aspects of environmental history chronicled in scientific and literary works into the curriculum, assess the needs of Lehigh scholars for the serving and archiving of unpublished research materials in the social sciences and the humanities, and assist with the Technology, Research and Communication Fellows Program that integrates writing, research, instructional technology, and related learning skills into the undergraduate curriculum.
Timothy F. Jackson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) received his Ph.D. in Editorial Studies from Boston University. He will work with humanities faculty and staff on digital research in 19th Century American history, literature and culture, including work on such projects as Civil War Washington, D.C., the Walt Whitman Archive, the Willa Cather Archive, and the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online.
Lori Jahnke (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia) earned her Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Tulane University. During her fellowship, she will conduct a strategic assessment of the historic Medical Library, including a holistic appraisal of texts (published, journals, incunabula, pamphlets), manuscripts, photographs, and archives.
Noah Shenker (McMaster University) received his Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the School of Cinema-Television/Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. During his two-year fellowship, he will act as the coordinator of a research team that focuses on the development of a thematic, interactive virtual research environment devoted to the resistance movements in Europe during World War II, underground literature, Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust.
Heather Waldroup (Claremont University Consortium) received her Ph.D. in the history of consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. The second year of her fellowship focuses on overseeing the identification, cataloging, and preservation of a broad range of pictorial and graphics collections housed in Special Collections, the Honnold/Mudd Library, and the Denison Library. Formats include but are not limited to photographs, original works of art on paper, prints, maps, and architectural drawings.
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, folklore, U.S. and British history, and the history of science 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.
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. Currently, she is teaching Early American Literature as an Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University. While a CLIR fellow at Lehigh, she worked 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.
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.
Danielle Culpepper (Johns Hopkins University) received her Ph.D. in early modern Italian history from the University of Virginia. She worked in the Special Collections department of the Sheridan Libraries' George Peabody Library, and supplemented her fellowship with classes at the Rare Book School. Her fellowship projects included 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. She now works at the Rare Book School, which is located at the University of Virginia.
Gabrielle Dean (Johns Hopkins University), who earned her Ph.D. in English and Textual Studies at the University of Washington, is currently Curator of Modern Literary Rare Books and Manuscripts and Librarian for English and the Writing Seminars in the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. During her fellowship in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department, she curated an exhibit at the George Peabody Library, “A View of the Parade: H. L. Mencken and American Magazines.” She also helped to upgrade the department’s web pages, planned a course about the 19th-century public library and taught rare books sessions linked to English classes.
Erica Doerhoff (Pepperdine University) received her Ph.D. in German studies from Cornell University. She helped implement the first institutional wiki at Pepperdine and was also involved with strategic planning for a university-wide podcasting system. Additionally, Doerhoff helped develop policies and procedures for an institutional repository and worked with faculty to develop and curate digital collections. After completing her fellowship, she enrolled in law school at Washington University in St. Louis.
Amanda French (North Carolina State University) earned her Ph.D. in English at the University of Virginia. 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. After her fellowship, she was a Teaching Assistant Professor in the English Department at NCSU, and she then took a position as Coordinator of E-Learning and Reserves Services at Emory University Libraries.
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 (University of California, Los Angeles) earned her doctorate in information studies at UCLA. During her fellowship, she worked at UCLA Research Library's Collections, Research, and Instructional Services (CRIS) on the identification, assessment, description, and dissemination of African-language information resources and developed a Web portal for scholars. She also developed a bibliographic database for the Department of Special Collections of their Michael Lofchie Collection from Zanzibar that will soon be uploaded to the Online Archive of California. In addition, she participated in various committees and teams, including the Information Literacy Functional Area Team, the Area and International Studies Team, and the Research Commons Renovation Team. As part of the Renovation Team, she conducted informal interviews with faculty members and graduate students to ensure that their needs and visions are incorporated into the redesign of UCLA's Charles E. Research Library building.
Caroline E. Kelley (University of California, Los Angeles) earned a doctorate in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford where she also did a masters degree in Women's Studies. During her two-year fellowship at the UCLA Young Research Library, she worked on a customizable Web portal (federated searching) pilot using Metalib software on the topic of "Women and US Social Movements" for faculty and graduate students; an interactive wiki on the Berber Maghreb; and a collection assessment of monographs and serials published in France and North Africa. She also consulted on and participated in several projects including a microfilm digitization initiative on colonial women's travel writing; the development of an open access born-digital journal at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women; and other endeavors in scholarly communication, information literacy, and collection development. In 2008, she held a second postdoctoral fellowship in the Digital Humanities at the HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden.
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. Currently, she is Curator of the Upper Midwest Literary Archives in the Manuscripts Division in the University of Minnesota Libraries. During her fellowship, she was 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 also co-chaired a committee on information literacy, and was a member of committees on external funding and portal development.
Lori Miller (Appalachian College Association) earned a Ph.D. in history from Indiana University. During her two-year fellowship, she worked with faculty, librarians, and instructional technologists from the 36 ACA member institutions to increase the use of electronic resources provided through the Bowen Central Library of Appalachia. She also served as the ACA's liaison to the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE), assisted in the management of grant funding for library and technology initiatives at the ACA, and completed a project to assess the suitability of new items from member colleges' special collections and archives for inclusion in the Digital Library of Appalachia. She currently works for CLIR as Program Associate for the Leadership through New Communities of Knowledge Program.
Kelly Miller (University of Virginia) earned her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. She is currently Head of Programs and Public Outreach at the Harrison Institute of American History, Literature and Culture in the University of Virginia Library. From 2006-2008, she served as Assistant to the Deputy University Librarian at the University of Virginia and Research Associate for the Scholarly Communication Institute, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and hosted by the University of Virginia Library. She also teaches occasional courses on Russian culture and art in U.Va.'s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and McIntire Department of Art.
Michelle Morton (University of California, Berkeley) earned her Ph.D. in literature from UC Santa Cruz and earned her MLIS at San Jose State University in 2008. Currently she works as a faculty librarian at Cañada Community College in Redwood City, CA in January 2009. Her interests include historical records of Mexican California, digital preservation, integrated library instruction and outreach, and working with first-generation and low-income students.
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.
Wesley Raabe (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) earned his Ph.D. in English language and literature at the University of Virginia. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Textual Editing and American Literature in the Department of English at Kent State University. During his fellowship, he was the project manager and associate editor of Civil War Washington: Studies in Transformation. Raabe is at work on an electronic critical edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Daphnée Rentfrow (Yale University) has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Brown University and recently completed her MLIS 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 wrote 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. She now works as an archivist at the University of California-Irvine.
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.
Timothy Stinson (Johns Hopkins University) earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the English Department at North Carolina State University. As a fellow, he had a joint appointment in the Digital Research and Curation Center, where he worked 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 taught courses on medieval English literature. His work at Johns Hopkins led to his current research into dating medieval manuscripts using DNA analysis.
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 focused primarily on developing a Web portal for resources relating to the ancient Near East and Egypt. She also assisted with collection development, reference and instruction, and, together with the UCLA Digital Library Program, worked on the all-digital UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. She is now an Associate Librarian in the Collections, Research, and Instructional Services Department at UCLA's Young Research Library, and is continuing her work with the Encyclopedia as a copy editor and digital librarian.
Amanda Watson (University of Virginia), who earned her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, is now Research and Instruction Librarian and Special Projects Coordinator at Connecticut College. Previously she worked as a reference and instruction intern at the Swarthmore College Library while completing her MSLIS at Drexel University. She is a contributor to the ALA Guide to Reference.
Susan L. Wiesner (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) received her Ph.D. in dance studies and computational linguistics from the University of Surrey in Guildford, England. From 2007-2008, she was a fellow at the University of Virginia where she acted as the subject librarian for dance and drama, assessing current holdings, updating catalogue records, and planning and delivering a lecture series on dance films in the university's collection. She also developed a proof-of-concept for an institutional memory of multi-media materials and received an R&D grant to build a database and Web portal for research into peer-reviewed dance publications (both projects were presented at scholarly conferences in summer 2008). She spent 2008 to the spring of 2009 as a fellow at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro where she described and digitised the recently donated papers of Dr. Robert Hansen that include stage designs, autographs, photographs, books, playbills, posters, printed ephemera, sheet music, and other items relating to the performing arts.
Christa Williford (Bryn Mawr College) earned her Ph.D. in theatre history, literature and criticism at Indiana University. She received her MLIS degree from the University of Washington in March 2008 and was User Services Librarian at Haverford College for two years. She now works for CLIR as Program Associate for the Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives Program.
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. In her second fellowship at Bryn Mawr College, she developed an online database and exhibit for the Katrina Thomas Ethnic Wedding Photograph Collection. She is now Associate Director of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.