Emily Beagle (University of Texas at Austin) received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wyoming. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Energy Economics, she will work jointly with UT Libraries staff and Energy Institute faculty to integrate and manage large, multi-component data sets for energy systems. Her work specifically involves residential electricity data paired with other geographic and demographic information to assess how electricity demand changes with location and meteorology. In addition to managing these data sets, she will work to make them available to other researchers and support open science.

Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra (Smith College) earned her Ph.D. in History and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. As Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Coordinator in Digital Humanities and Popular Political Education, she will develop the project Putting History in Domestic Workers’ Hands. In collaboration with historians and organizers from Smith College and the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), she will produce research on domestic worker history and create digitally-based products to support key elements of NDWA’s capacity-building initiatives, including building a greater web presence for NDWA through web-based educational videos and developing a core political education curriculum that is digitally-distributable for curation and use on multiple scales.

Katie Coburn (University of California, Merced) earned her Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology at the University of California, Merced. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for the Sciences and Social Sciences, she will develop a program for engaging with and training researchers at UC Merced to employ best practices for managing, documenting, publishing, and archiving their research data and workflows. Working with the Library’s Spatial Analysis and Research Center and other campus partners, she will provide active data management and curation support for projects as well as advise on developing trends and requirements in order to build institutional data curation capacity and improve infrastructure and services.

Heidi Dodson (University at Buffalo) received her Ph.D. in History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Scholarship, she will work with constituencies across campus to understand current digital scholarship needs and plan and implement effective strategies for meeting those needs.  She will collaborate with librarians, faculty, and students to support innovative teaching and research through open scholarship, the development of digital projects, and the effective use of data. By strengthening and expanding digital scholarship networks across campus, she will ensure the library continues to be a transformative space for knowledge production.

Seth Erickson (Pennsylvania State University) received his Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Software Curation for the Sciences and Social Sciences, he will lead an investigation into software curation services at Penn State University Libraries. Building on the libraries’ established digital preservation and data curation programs, he will work on conceptualizing and developing software curation services by addressing challenges associated with the acquisition, licensing, description, accessibility, and preservation of research software.

Jennifer Garcon (University of Pennsylvania) received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Miami. As Community and Public Data Curation Fellow, she will help develop and expand sustainable models for the care of vulnerable collections of data. She will work on the Data Refuge project, a data initiative aimed at the identification and long-term preservation of environmental and climate data published by local, state, and federal governments. She will also partner with faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Education in building an archive of Black Philly that will help care for vulnerable data published by members of the Black community in Philadelphia, especially in neighborhoods that are rapidly changing due to gentrification and other forces. 

Zenobie S. Garrett (University of Oklahoma) received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from New York University. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Software and Research Objects Curation, she will conduct research in digital archiving and software curation for virtual reality and 3D imaging applications. She will work closely with staff from the university libraries as well as faculty and students to develop and incorporate best practices and standards of digital data curation and preservation in research, teaching, and learning. She will also promote collaborative projects using 3D and VR technology throughout the university and teach and train students, staff, and faculty on the significance of software integrity, transparency, and ethics. Her goal is to facilitate the development and use of innovative digital technologies in research and scholarship.

Daniel Genkins (Brown University) received his Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, he will be responsible for compiling, assessing, and ultimately redesigning the metadata infrastructure for the John Carter Brown Library’s Indigenous Languages in the Americas collection. His work includes overseeing an initial data migration project, formulating and maintaining documented data curation policies, procedures, and best practices for the library, and creating a flexible metadata program that works with the library’s multiple digital asset management platforms. He will also collaborate with other institutions and programs dealing with culturally sensitive materials and establish and maintain working relationships with representatives from indigenous communities whose cultural heritage is represented in the Indigenous Languages collection. 

Jennifer Isasi (University of Texas at Austin) earned her Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies with a specialization in Digital Humanities from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As Postdoctoral Fellow for Data Curation in Latin American and Latina/o Studies, Isasi will work with Digital Scholarship Coordinator Albert A. Palacios to contribute to “collections as data” efforts, educational resources, and digital scholarship initiatives at LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. She will also work with academic engagement staff, affiliated faculty, the post-custodial archival team, and partners in the United States and Latin America to develop curated data sets, open-access resources that support scholarly and public engagement with digital materials, and to inform the development of forthcoming digital collections.

Andrew Meade McGee (Carnegie Mellon University) received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia. A historian of the politics, technology, business, and culture of the twentieth century U.S. information society, he previously served as visiting faculty at Carnegie Mellon (CMU) and Washington and Lee University and most recently held the Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies at the Library of Congress. As Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Science and Computing at CMU, he will promote research in the history of information technology and foster cross-campus ties among humanities scholars, scientists, and artists. He will digitally curate and design public history presentations around CMU’s newly acquired Pamela McCorduck Collection of rare computing books, letters, and artifacts, fostering broader campus discussion around history of science and technology materials held in the University Library Archives and Special Collections.

Nicté Fuller Medina (University of California, Los Angeles) earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, she will help re-envision the Latin American and Caribbean Studies collection strategies for data acquired and held in support of teaching, research, and community outreach and engagement. She will articulate and guide the development of multilingual interfaces to UCLA’s highly diverse web-based content and collections to enable easy use and the broadest possible discovery of content and services by international scholars.

Margie Montañez (University of New Mexico) received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, she will help bridge gaps in the North/South information divide as part of the faculty in the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences, with an affiliation in the Latin American and Iberian Institute. Working with digitized and born digital documents, data and metadata, and a variety of historical texts, including maps, personal and professional correspondence, political and legal records, and travel and shipping logs, she will develop initiatives that enhance collections and scholarship while implementing equitable and culturally sensitive Latin American and Caribbean projects in data curation and digital humanities. Her work will traverse the changing political boundaries of the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean while improving online access to collections, data, and metadata between the Americas.

Smiti Nathan (Johns Hopkins University) earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology with a focus on Archaeology from New York University. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Geospatial Data Discovery, Access, Management, and Curation in Data Services at Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries and Museums, she will curate library collections of geospatial data and make them more accessible to users while supporting users in managing and sharing their own geospatial research.

Hyeongyul Roh (Duke University) received his Ph.D. in Economics from North Carolina State University. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Energy Data Curation, he will work closely with energy economists, engineers, and other faculty affiliated with the Duke University Energy Initiative’s Energy Data Analytics Lab and in the Libraries’ Brandeleone Lab for Data and Visualization Services. As new energy data sets emerge, he will identify valuable energy data resources and design and conduct data analysis and modeling experiments using the large data sets. He will also work on energy projects involving regression analysis, classification, and other forms of machine learning; design and implement optimization analyses; data visualization and narrative construction; and data sharing and management for broad dissemination of research findings. 

Jonathan Scott (University of California, Berkeley) received his Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University. His research interests span industrial organization and public economics, and primarily focus on energy and environmental issues. His recent research has examined environmental externalities produced by the energy and transportation sectors, with an emphasis on policy-driven solutions. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Energy Data Visualization and Curation for the Energy Institute at Haas and the University Library at the University of California, Berkeley, he will explore new techniques in data visualization, storytelling with data, and the creation of original and innovative scholarship in support of energy research and other forms of data-intensive science.

Justin D. Shanks (Montana State University) earned his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech. As CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities, he will develop a digital humanities program that builds upon institutional interdisciplinary strengths in western American literature and history. Using the Ivan Doig Archive as a foundation, Justin will collaborate with Montana State University Library and the Center for Western Lands and Peoples to foster the growth of digital humanities education and research at Montana State University. He will develop courses and conduct research that increases awareness of and builds institutional capacity in digital humanities methods and research in order to integrate MSU into the larger community of digital humanities scholarship.

Hadassah St. Hubert (Florida International University) received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Miami. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, she will lead programming and digitization efforts in collaboration with the Digital Library of the Caribbean’s (dLOC’s) partner, L’Institut de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine National (ISPAN). In this cooperative project, she will provide training and expert technical assistance to ISPAN in its digitization efforts. In addition, she will increase access to and preserve Haitian information resources at ISPAN by digitizing archives, mapping sites, and making the archive available in English, French, and Haitian Creole.

Rachel Starry (University at Buffalo) received her Ph.D. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for the Social Sciences, she will partner with the university libraries and various departments and research centers in the College of Arts and Sciences to identify social science data needs and opportunities across campus. Coordinating with ongoing digital scholarship initiatives, she will provide instruction and guidance on geospatial data concerns, tools and approaches for data analysis, standards for dataset preservation and publication, and ways to leverage existing social science datasets. She will also collaborate with campus centers such as the Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology and the Center for Unified Biometrics to support new and existing digital projects in the social sciences.

Ana Trisovic (University of Chicago) earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge. She previously worked as project associate on data preservation and research reproducibility at the high-energy physics laboratory CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Switzerland. During her fellowship, she will work with the University of Chicago Library and the university’s Energy Policy Institute to design and develop a data system for storing and sharing data on energy, environmental, and climate research to facilitate future data analysis. She will also work on software development, data curation solutions, and data management programs for energy research. Her research interests focus on data provenance, scientific preservation and reproducibility, data analysis automation and reuse, and open science.

Wendy Hoi Yan Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) earned her Ph.D. in Music from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and her M.S. in Library and Information Science at the iSchool of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Scholarship, she will be a member of the library’s Research Support & Digital Initiatives Team. Wong will assist in developing the digital scholarship research environment on campus by offering workshops on digital tools and giving advice to faculty and students as needed. She will collaborate with faculty on digital humanities projects using the library’s special collections on Hong Kong literature and Chinese music.

Qian Zhang (University of Waterloo) earned her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University, with a major in Physical Oceanography and a minor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Before joining the University of Waterloo, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Research Data Service of the library, iSchool and National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Software Curation with a joint appointment between the library and the School of Computer Science, she will conduct a comprehensive exploration of the scope and current practice of software curation globally with an emphasis on practices in Canada to help inform the development of library services.

Crystal Andrea Felima (University of Florida) earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Caribbean Studies Data Curation, she serves as a team member of the UF’s Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) to facilitate campus-wide data curation activities and to forge new collaborations to extend the George A. Smathers Libraries’ capacity to support research and technology initiatives at the university. She works with experts in Caribbean Studies to identify needs for data curation and extend support and content within dLOC. She also consults with researchers and scholars on emerging trends and best practices in digital humanities, data curation, and e-scholarship in Caribbean Studies.

Jeanine Finn (Claremont Colleges) received her Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. As Data Services Postdoctoral Fellow, she works collaboratively with librarians to develop a robust suite of data services to support student and faculty research across the seven Claremont Colleges. Her work includes a needs assessment with recommendations for a scalable and sustainable set of data services and programs. She is also developing and implementing a scaffolded training program for librarians and researchers across all disciplines and working with faculty on integrating data literacy into their courses.

Alex Galarza (Haverford College) earned his Ph.D. in History from Michigan State University. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, he is collaborating with the Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM) in Guatemala City, Guatemala to create a digital archive of materials relevant to human rights and historical memory. He provides training and expert technical assistance with the digitization and data maintenance process, advises on best practices for the digital archiving of materials and the provision of access to a local and global community. As project manager, he works with the library’s digital scholarship team as well as faculty and students.

Lorena Gauthereau (University of Houston) received her Ph.D. in English from Rice University. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, she works with the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project (Recovery Project) to locate, preserve and disseminate the written legacy of Latinas and Latinos produced in the United States from colonial times until 1960. At the Recovery Project, she is helping establish a Digital Humanities Center for Latina/o Studies. During her two-year fellowship, she is also working with Arte Público Press to implement services in data curation to create enhanced digital publications of historical and contemporary materials relevant to Latina/o Studies. She also serves as the Recovery Project’s digital humanities liaison and helps develop and present workshops for the University of Houston community.

Eric Kaltman (Carnegie Mellon University) received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has worked as a project manager for the Game Citation and Metadata Project, a multi-year Institute of Museum and Library Services project devoted to the development of metadata and citation practices for games and software for research institutions, libraries, and scholars. As a former software archivist for Stanford University, his research is devoted to supporting archival and collections practices that serve game studies, software studies, and historians of science and technology, including work with the National Endowment for the Humanities on cultural software appraisal and preservation practices. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for the Sciences, he collaborates with faculty, students, library staff, and technologists to advance CMU’s research data management strategy, with a specific focus on the physical and life sciences.

Jessica Linker (Bryn Mawr College) received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Connecticut. As Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Digital Scholarship, she promotes the use of digital technologies and resources for humanities research, teaching, and intellectual engagement. She works closely with a team of Library & Information Technology Services staff, faculty, and students to support the College’s vision for incorporating digital technologies in innovative, collaborative research, teaching, and learning. She also promotes collaborative projects in the humanities and connects digital humanities projects with the College’s digital competencies framework for students.

Mario H. Ramirez (Indiana University) received his Ph.D. in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, he is focusing on the data migration of the Archivo Mesoamericano, a digital archive of annotated historical and ethnographic video materials created in collaboration with the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico, the Institute of History of Nicaragua and Central America (IHNCA) in Nicaragua, and the Museum of the Word and the Image (MUPI) in El Salvador, each of which hold the source materials. He is also working to further knowledge in data curation across various disciplines and departments, identifying best practices and defining workflows.

Edward Shore (University of Texas at Austin) received his Ph.D. in Latin American History, with a specialization in the history of slavery, race, and the environment in Brazil, from the University of Texas at Austin. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation in Latin American and Latina/o Studies, he is overseeing a project to preserve and digitize rare historical documentation on quilombos, communities organized by fugitive slaves in colonial Brazil. He will work with members of the quilombos on establishing and curating their own community-based archives and strengthening their legal claims to land and resources in the Atlantic Forest.

Emma Slayton (Carnegie Mellon University) earned her Ph.D. in Archaeology at Leiden University. As Postdoctoral Fellow for Data Visualization and Curation, she works with faculty, library staff, technologists, and students to advance data visualization strategies at CMU’s Library. Along with university partners, she develops and promotes a sustainable approach to data visualization tools for use by stakeholders across the university. She is leading a wide-ranging search into the current scope of data visualization research on campus, including the kinds of tools and practices currently being used. She is also collaborating with students, faculty, and staff to devise and execute a data visualization resource and service packet for the Library to support teaching and learning.

Neil Weijer (Johns Hopkins University) received his Ph.D. in History from Johns Hopkins University. As Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in Premodern and Early Modern Studies, he works on the Mellon-funded research project The Archaeology of Reading, which seeks to make the annotations in early modern books accessible for scholars and students alike. His research for the project focuses on a series of books owned by the late Elizabethan scholar and polymath John Dee. He is designing a collaborative project on the reading and annotating of medieval manuscript histories. He also works closely with the collections of rare books and manuscripts in the Hopkins Libraries, programming exhibitions from the collections, assisting faculty in research and teaching, and cataloguing the Libraries’ medieval holdings.

Alex Wermer-Colan (Temple University) received his Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. As Digital Scholarship and Content Area Specialist, he collaborates with faculty and students, librarians and digital scholars, to define projects and help shape programs that help establish the Digital Scholarship Center’s role in the wide-ranging academic and research environments at Temple University. While consulting with faculty, organizing training workshops, mentoring students, and building networks for research and pedagogy across the university, he works in the areas of textual analysis, data mining and visualization, network analysis, archival digitization, media production, and project scoping and management.

Chris J. Young (University of Toronto) received his Ph.D. in Information from the University of Toronto. As Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities, he assists in building the University of Toronto’s Digital Humanities Network by developing scholarly events and creating networking opportunities for faculty, librarians, and students. In addition, he is researching the gendered and racialized features programmed into the default settings of predominantly used game engines by the video game industry.