2018 Fellows


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.







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.









2017 Continuing Fellows
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.

Former Postdoctoral Fellows by Cohort
Note: The host institution where the fellow conducted the fellowship is in parentheses.
2018 Postdoctoral Fellows
Alexander Brey (McGill University)
2017 Postdoctoral Fellows
Hannah Alpert-Abrams (University of Texas at Austin)
2016 Postdoctoral Fellows
Yasmin AlNoamany (University of California Berkeley)
John Borghi (California Digital Library)
Paul Broyles (North Carolina State University)
Alberto Campagnolo (Library of Congress)
Alexandra Chassanoff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Erin Connelly (University of Pennsylvania)
Thomas Cook (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
Andrew Forsberg (Library of Congress)
Kristy Golubiewski-Davis (Middlebury College)
Jennifer Grayburn (Temple University)
Veronica Ikeshoji-Orlati (Vanderbilt University)
Michaela Kelly (Lafayette College)
Bommae Kim (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
Jacob Levernier (University of Pennsylvania)
Zack Lischer-Katz (University of Oklahoma)
Elizabeth Parke (University of Toronto)
Jacqueline Quinless (University of Victoria)
Mara Sedlins (Duke University)
Yun Tai (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Mason Scott Thompson (U.S. Agency for International Development)
Katherine Thornton (Yale University)
Loren Valterza (University of Notre Dame)
Heather Wacha (University of Wisconsin Madison)
Jeffrey Wayno (Columbia University)
Iskandar Zulkarnain (University of Rochester)
2015 Postdoctoral Fellows
Reid Boehm (University of Notre Dame)
Jacquelyn Clements (University of Toronto)
Melissa Dinsman (University of Notre Dame)
Carrie Johnston (Bucknell University)
Dimitros Latsis (Internet Archive)
Chreston Miller (Virginia Tech)
Kyle Parry (University of Rochester)
Fernando Rios (Johns Hopkins University)
Elizabeth Rodrigues (Temple University)
Edward Triplett (Duke University)
Martin Tsang (University of Miami)
Mary Lindsay Van Tine (Swarthmore College/University of Pennsylvania)
Leila Walker (St. Lawrence University)
Qian Zhang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
2014 Postdoctoral Fellows
Laura Aydelotte (University of Pennsylvania)
Michael Bales (Weill Cornell Medical College)
Meaghan Brown (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Scout Calvert (University of California, Los Angeles)
Morgan Daniels (Vanderbilt University)
Rachel Deblinger (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Anne Donlon (Emory University)
Annie Johnson (Lehigh University)
Monica Mercado (Bryn Mawr College)
Emily McGinn (Layfayette College)
Paige Morgan (McMaster University)
Alice Motes (University of Minnesota)
Tim Norris (University of Miami)
Charlotte Nunes (Southwestern University)
Jessica Otis (Carnegie Mellon University)
Philip Palmer (University of California, Los Angeles)
Alicia Peaker (Middlebury College)
Sarah Pickle (Pennsylvania State University)
Andrew Rechnitz (Southwestern University)
Christopher Sawula (University of Alabama)
Meridith Beck Sayre (Indiana University)
Emily Sherwood (Bucknell University)
Stephanie Simms (University of California, Los Angeles)
Plato Smith (University of New Mexico)
Todd Suomela (University of Alberta)
Yun Tai (University of Virginia)
Ana Van Gulick (Carnegie Mellon University)
2013 Postdoctoral Fellows
Sayan Bhattacharyya (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/HathiTrust Research Center)
Alexandra Bolintineanu (University of Toronto)
Jonathan Cachat (University of California, Davis)
Amy Chen (University of Alabama)
Margarita Corral (Brandeis University)
Matthew Davis (North Carolina State University)
Nikolaus Fogle (Villanova University)
John Kratz (California Digital Library)
Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel (Johns Hopkins University)
Anjum Najmi (University of North Texas)
Hannah Rasmussen (Harvard Business School)
Katie Rawson (University of Pennsylvania)
Jodi Reeves Eyre (Arizona State University)
Kendall Roark (University of Alberta)
Justin Schell (University of Minnesota)
Matthew Sisk (University of Notre Dame)
Colleen Strawhacker (University of Colorado at Boulder/National Snow and Ice Data Center)
Ece Turnator (University of Texas-Austin)
Christa Vogelius (University of Alabama)
Bridget Whearty (Stanford University)
Donna Wrublewski (California Institute of Technology)
2012 Postdoctoral Fellows
Katherine Akers (University of Michigan)
Benjamin Dewayne Branch (Purdue University)
Jason Brodeur (McMaster University)
Brock Dubbels (McMaster University)
Vessela Ensberg (University of California Los Angeles)
Inna Kouper (Indiana University)
Matthew J. Lavin (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Ekaterina Neklyudova (McMaster University)
Natsuko Hayashi Nicholls (University of Michigan)
Jennifer Parrott (Bucknell University)
Fe Consolacion Sferdean (University of Michigan)
Ting Wang (Lehigh University)
Wei Yang (McMaster University)
2011 Postdoctoral Fellows
Jessica Aberle (Lehigh University)
Erin Aspenlieder (McMaster University)
Peter Broadwell (University of California, Los Angeles)
Arthur (Mitch) Fraas (University of Pennsylvania)
Korey Jackson (University of Michigan)
Spencer Keralis (University of North Texas)
Jennifer Redmond (Bryn Mawr College)
Donald Sells (McMaster University)
Yi Shen (Johns Hopkins University)
Christopher Teeter (McMaster University)
Nicole Wagner (McMaster University)
2010 Postdoctoral Fellows
Andrew Asher (Bucknell University)
Tamar Boyadjian (University of California, Los Angeles)
Brian Croxall (Emory University)
John Maclachlan (McMaster University)
Julia Osman (Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records)
Mike Snowdon (McMaster University)
2009 Postdoctoral Fellows
Anne Bruder (Bryn Mawr College)
Daniel Chamberlain (Occidental College)
Melissa Grafe (Lehigh University)
Lori Jahnke (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Noah Shenker (McMaster University)
Timothy F. Jackson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
2008 Postdoctoral Fellows
Gloria Chacon (University of California, Los Angeles)
Gabrielle Dean (Johns Hopkins University)
Heather Waldroup (Claremont University Consortium)
Susan L. Wiesner (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
2007 Postdoctoral Fellows
Lauren Coats (Lehigh University)
Erica Doerhoff (Pepperdine University)
Cecily Marcus (University of Minnesota Libraries)
Lori Miller (Appalachian College Association)
Elizabeth Waraksa (University of California, Los Angeles)
Susan L. Wiesner (University of Virginia)
2006 Postdoctoral Fellows
Marta Brunner (University of California, Los Angeles)
Arica Coleman (Johns Hopkins University)
Danielle Culpepper (Johns Hopkins University)
Janet Kaaya (University of California, Los Angeles)
Caroline E. Kelley (University of California, Los Angeles)
Wesley Raabe (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Timothy Stinson (Johns Hopkins University)
Tracie L. Wilson (Bryn Mawr College)
2005 Postdoctoral Fellows
Marlene Allen (University of California, Los Angeles)
Ali Anooshahr (University of California, Los Angeles)
Kelly Miller (University of Virginia)
Michelle Morton (University of California, Berkeley)
2004 Postdoctoral Fellows
Sigrid Anderson Cordell (Princeton University)
Amanda French (North Carolina State University)
Patricia Hswe (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Ben Huang (University of Southern California)
Meg Norcia (Lehigh University)
Allyson Polsky-McCabe (Johns Hopkins University)
Daphnée Rentfrow (Yale University)
Dawn Schmitz (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Rachel E. Shuttlesworth (University of Alabama)
Amanda Watson (University of Virginia)
Christa Williford (Bryn Mawr College)