Current and Previous Fellows
Current Fellows
The sponsoring institution where the fellow is conducting/conducted their postdoctoral fellowship is in parentheses.
Jessica Aberle (Lehigh University) received her Ph.D. in Architectural History from the University of Virginia. During her two-year fellowship, she is working with Lehigh faculty to organize a participatory conference on Digital or Alt Forms of Scholarship and reviewing digital preservation guidelines at various institutions to develop a best practices document for images, research data, audio, and video content types at Lehigh. She is also working with a project archivist to develop discovery tools to assist researchers with the Francis E. Walter Papers and the Moravian Community in the New World Collections.
Erin Aspenlieder (McMaster University) earned her Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. During her fellowship, she will be researching and designing a professionalization and teaching program for graduate students involving the collaborative efforts of the library, the School of Graduate Studies, and the Centre for Leadership in Learning.
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 will also be teaching a number of courses, as well as working to develop Google Earth-based modules for outreach and education in Physical Geography and Geology.
Arthur (Mitch) Fraas (University of Pennsylvania) earned his Ph.D. in History from Duke University. During his two-year fellowship, he is assessing faculty-generated digital projects in order to establish relevant services for faculty needs. He is also working with faculty to gain a better understanding of their use of courseware and other educational technologies and how the library can help implement and support those technologies.
Korey Jackson (University of Michigan) received his Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan. He is researching publishing needs for digital humanities and humanities publishing, facilitating the promotion and outreach of MPublishing to the campus and beyond, and working with faculty and MPublishing staff to produce online scholarly journals and book series.
Spencer Keralis (University of North Texas) earned his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University. In cooperation with the Council on Library and Information Resources, he is investigating how the library and information science profession can best respond to the emerging needs of research data management in universities by examining stakeholder expectations, best practices, and the necessary preparation for long-term data management.
Jennifer Redmond (Bryn Mawr College) received her Ph.D. from the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. She is managing a digital project that will promote the use of archival materials on the history of women’s education in teaching and scholarship at both the high school level and worldwide. Among her duties will be creating a new digital research portal that will provide a number of teaching resources.
Donald Sells (McMaster University) earned his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Toronto. He is creating a database of significant Greek comic fragments of the fifth century BCE. Fragments will be organized by author with accompanying translations and tags in order to provide scholars with a searachable database of this invaluable but obscure corpus of texts.
Christopher Teeter (McMaster University) received his Ph.D. in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour from McMaster University. During his fellowship, he will be investigating best practices in teaching and learning in the field of psychology that relate specifically to models of online-instruction and assessment, evaluation of library resources, and instructional resources.
Nicole Wagner (McMaster University) earned her Ph.D. in Information Systems from the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University. During her fellowship, she is conducting a user study with various user groups of the library Web site (undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, library staff) in an effort to understand better their usage patterns and desires for the site. She will then prepare a recommendations report for the library leadership team and assist with implementing changes to the site.
Continuing Current Fellows
Andrew Asher (Bucknell University) received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During his two-year fellowship, he is working closely with library and information technology staff to engage and support faculty on issues concerning scholarly communication and open access. His responsibilities include planning, preparing, and implementing policies and procedures for the deposit of faculty scholarship into an institutional repository.
Tamar Boyadjian (University of California, Los Angeles) earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is helping to develop long-term Web archiving strategies and practices for the Collections, Research, and Instructional Services Department (CRIS) of the Charles E. Young Research Library.
Brian Croxall (Emory University) received his Ph.D. in English Literature with a certificate in Psychoanalytic Studies from Emory University. During his two-year fellowship, he is supporting the development of a new model for fostering research and learning that leverages library information resources, library services, emerging technologies, and pedagogical innovation. Based in the Services Division of the Main University Library, he is collaborating with subject librarians, digital program experts, colleagues across the library system, academic technologists, and faculty.
John Maclachlan (McMaster University) earned his Ph.D. in Geography and Earth Sciences from McMaster University. Based in the newly renovated Lyons New Media Centre in Mills Memorial Library, he is working on making the Centre a new focal point and critical service for students and faculty interested in integrating digital media into teaching, learning, and research. The Centre includes a small teaching facility, audio and video editing suites, gaming suites, consultation space, and state-of-the-art technology.
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 is coordinating 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.
Yi Shen (Johns Hopkins University) earned her Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is helping to identify and articulate humanists' scholarly needs, especially as they relate to the use of digital content and services. Her work also focuses on developing a strategic plan that will influence and guide Hopkins' repository policies and practices.
Former Fellows
Marlene Allen (University of California, Los Angeles)
Ali Anooshahr (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)
Danielle Culpepper (Johns Hopkins University)
Gabrielle Dean (Johns Hopkins University)
Erica Doerhoff (Pepperdine University)
Amanda French (North Carolina State University)
Melissa Grafe (Lehigh University)
Patricia Hswe (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Ben Huang (University of Southern California)
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)
Cecily Marcus (University of Minnesota Libraries)
Kelly Miller (University of Virginia)
Lori Miller (Appalachian College Association)
Michelle Morton (University of California, Berkeley)
Meg Norcia (Lehigh University)
Julia Osman (Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records)
Allyson Polsky-McCabe (Johns Hopkins University)
Wesley Raabe (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Daphnée Rentfrow (Yale University)
Dawn Schmitz (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Rachel E. Shuttlesworth (University of Alabama)
Mike Snowdon (McMaster University)
Timothy Stinson (Johns Hopkins 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)