Contributors

• Jean Bauer

  

  In brief: I am an Early American historian, a database designer, and a photographer. I'm also sleep-deprived, but that probably isn't related . . .

  Current Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown University, former Presidential Fellow in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, a former Digital Humanities Fellow in the University of Virginia Library's Digital Scholars' Lab, and a former a NINES Graduate Fellow.

  Twitter: @jean_bauer Site: Jean’s Site

• Jeremy Boggs

  

  Jeremy is Design Architect in the Scholars' Lab. He is also ABD in History at George Mason University.

  Twitter: @clioweb Site: Jeremy’s Site

• Stavros Calos

  

• Tanya Clement

  

  Tanya Clement is an Asst Professor at the School of Information at UT-Austin, with research interests in scholarly information infrastructure issues, particularly digitization, data curation, and scholarly publication in the humanities. She is advising students Zane Schwarzlose and Carin Yavorcik on their project developing a TEI plugin for Omeka with the Scholars' Lab.

  Twitter: @tanyaclement Site: Tanya’s Site

• Cory Duclos

  

  Cory Duclos is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University. He is currently a Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Fellow working on his dissertation entitled, “Fighting from the Margins: Discourse, Subversion, and Realism in the Early Modern Conquest and the Novel.”

• Chris Forster

  

  Former NINES Fellow, Scholars' Lab Fellow, and HASTAC Scholar. Currently Shannon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Virginia, where I completed my PhD in August, 2011.

  Twitter: @cforster Site: Chris’s Site

• Alex Gil

  

  Textual critic, high theory acolyte, archive rat, hard-hat Caribbeanist, Rails aficionado, conference-trotter. My thesis focuses on the evolution of the play Et les chiens se taisaient by Aimé Césaire. Other projects include: an edition of Césaire, THATCampCaribe, a better Juxta, a class on #critcode, and Prism at the Praxis Program.

  Twitter: @elotroalex Site: Alex’s Site

• Joe Gilbert

  

  Currently User Experience Web Developer, U.Va. Library and Scholars' Lab consultant. Joe's research interests include the scholarly implications of user interfaces, the ethical claims of American poetic discourse, and the cultural role of poetry in mid-20th-century America.

  Twitter: @joegilbert

• Chris Gist

  

  GIS Specialist with the University of Virginia Library where he builds spatial data collections, teaches GIS courses, and provides GIS user support. His research work includes various demographic, neighborhood indicator, and funding analysis projects in and around Richmond and various environmental science and humanities GIS projects. Chris is a certified GIS professional (GISP).

  Twitter: @adarwinian

• Wayne Graham

  

  Head of the R&D team at the Scholars' Lab, studied US Colonial History at William and Mary, and wrote a couple of books on developing applications for the Facebook platform. I have research interests in computer graphics, augmented reality, architectural history, quantitative and digital methodology, as well as frontier studies.

  Twitter: @wayne_graham Site: Wayne’s Site

• Fitz Green

  

  Former Scholars' Lab desk consultant and current Director of Educational Ministries at the Center for Christian Study in Charlottesville. Fitz is completing his Ph.D. at U.Va., studying the history of the Early Church. He likes talking about how early church leaders read and interpreted their Bible.

  Twitter: @fitz_green

• Ronda Grizzle

  

  Ronda is the outreach specialist for the SLab; a librarian by both training and inclination; fascinated by organizational and personal development; personal coach; owned by a bossy dog.

  Twitter: @rondauva

• Ethan Gruber

  

  Classical archaeology student, Web services developer at American Numismatic Society (@ANSCoins), 3d modeler, former web applications developer in the Scholars' Lab.

  Twitter: @ewg118 Site: Ethan’s Site

• Sara Henary

  

  Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University. A graduate of Rhodes College, she received her Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Virginia.

• Abby Holeman

  

  Research Assistant in the UVa Department of Anthropology, former Scholars' Lab Fellow. Her research interests include the intersection of cosmology and social organization at the site of Paquimé, to assess the nature of hierarchy and social differentiation in non-state societies, and exploring new ways to understand meaning in the archaeological record through symbolic and spatial analyses.

  Twitter: @ALHoleman

• Wendy Hsu

  

  Wendy Hsu is Mellon Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center of Digital Learning & Research at Occidental College. She received her PhD in the Critical and Comparative Studies in Music program in the McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia. Her research interests lie at the intersection of popular music performance and the transnational contacts between Asia and America, focusing on issues related to race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, and migration.

  Twitter: @wendyfhsu Site: Wendy’s Site

• Eric Johnson

  

  Eric Johnson is a librarian working as the Head of Outreach & Public Services at the Scholars’ Lab in the University of Virginia Library. He holds an MA in US History (George Mason University) and an MS in Library and Information Studies (Florida State) and has research interests in information sharing among creative people; citizen history; user-generated content in libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs); museum and library history; hospitality theory as applied to LAMs; public service librarianship; and communities of practice. He also serves on the board of directors of the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center in Charlottesville, VA, and is an avowed milk chocoholic.

  Twitter: @ericdmj

• Kelly Johnston

  

  As Geographic Information Systems Specialist for the Scholars' Lab, Kelly works with faculty, staff, and students to visualize, analyze, create, and manage geographic data. He earned a master's degree in Geographic Information Science from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. His research interests include applied geography and cartography as an art form.

  Twitter: @KellyGJohnston

• Jason Kirby

  

  Jason Kirby is a Ph.D. student in the Critical & Comparative program of the McIntire Department of Music at UVa. His research interests include genre in popular music, American "roots" music, sound and music in cinema, and the relationship of popular music to regional identity.

• Brooke Lestock

  

  Brooke is a 2011-12 Praxis Fellow and MA candidate in the Department of English. She is currently working on a thesis which investigates Virginia Woolf's moment of being as a biographical, historical, and narrative phenomenon in Woolf's fiction and essays. Brooke is also a graduate research assistant in IATH, working on Alison Booth's Collective Biographies of Women project.

  Twitter: @@BrookeLestock

• Shane Lin

  

• Claire Maiers

  

• Cecilia Márquez

  

• David McClure

  

  Web Applications Specialist on the Scholars' Lab R&D team, David graduated from Yale University with a degree in the Humanities in 2009, and prior to joining the SLab, worked as an independent web developer and communications consultant in San Francisco, New York, and Madison, Wisconsin. David is working on the Omeka + Neatline project and pursuing research projects that explore the idea that software can be used as a tool to inform, extend, and advance traditional lines of inquiry in literary theory and aesthetics.

  Twitter: @clured

• Matt Mitchell

  

  Matt Mitchell, a former SLab software developer, is currently a developer at hotelicopter.

• Matt Munson

  

  A former SLab Fellow, Matt is currently currently the Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Göttingen Center for Digital Humanities, DARIAH Arbeitspaket 2, Forschung und Lehre.

• Gwen Nally

  

• Bethany Nowviskie

  

  Computing humanist/humane computationalist since 1996. Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute. President, Association for Computers and the Humanities and current chair of MLA's Committee on Information Technology. Mother of two; tinkerer; not that kind of doctor.

  Twitter: @nowviskie Site: Bethany’s Site

• Lindsay O’Connor

  

  I am a 2011-12 Praxis Fellow, a PhD candidate in the UVa Department of English, and a former AmeriCorps member, campus civic engagement coordinator, and criminal defense investigator. My dissertation uses theories of waste and excess to examine American literary responses to disaster from the 1927 Mississippi flood to the present.

  Twitter: @Lindsay0h

• Chris Peck

  

  Chris Peck is a composer/performer whose work has been presented extensively around the US and internationally. His works involving collaboration with contemporary dance, audience participation, various mixtures of trained and “untrained” performers, and site specificity have been performed at the Venice Biennale, Performa, ImPulsTanz, Improvised and Otherwise, The Whitney Museum, and The Kitchen, and reviewed in publications such as The New York Times and Signal to Noise. He is a third-year PhD student in Composition and Computer Technologies in the McIntire Department of Music and a Praxis Fellow at the Scholars' Lab.

  Site: Chris’s Site

• Becca Peters

  

  Becca is approaching her 5th anniversary in Digital Research and Scholarship, although she came to UVA almost 20 years ago after receiving her BA in History from Purdue University. (Before the library, she worked in administration, the Darden School, the Law School, and University Development.) She does event planning and business operations for the team so her clever co-workers can keep on doing their amazingly cool jobs. She’s also a wife, mother of 2 elementary-age kids, deacon, Sunday School teacher, election official, and Girl Scout leader. She loves movies, reading, hiking, cooking Irish food, and sleeping late.

• Gillian Price

  

  Gillian is a Student Assistant manning the SLab service desk and a PhD Candidate in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.

• Dave Richardson

  

  Dave is a former GIS assistant in the Scholars' Lab and a graduate of the Environmental Sciences program.

• Wendy Robertson

  

• Eric Rochester

  

  Studied medieval English literature and linguistics at UGA. Dissertated on lexicography. Now I program in Haskell and write when I'm not building cool stuff for the Scholars' Lab. Also, husband and parent. Do you notice that sleep isn't on that list?

  Twitter: @erochest Site: Eric’s Site

• Katina Rogers

  

  Katina is the Scholarly Communication Institute's Senior Research Specialist. She works to support and share outcomes from conversations SCI is convening on emerging models for authoring and publication and on graduate education reform. She is also planning and conducting a survey of of humanities-trained respondents who self-identify as working in alternative academic careers, and will play a role in the planned expansion of the Praxis Program to a multi-institutional and international effort.

  Twitter: @katinalynn Site: Katina’s Site

• Bess Sadler

  

  Bess Sadler is currently Software Developer at Stanford University and was formerly Chief Architect for the Online Library Environment and Research and Development Librarian at University of Virginia Library

  Twitter: @eosadler

• Zane Schwarzlose

  

  Zane Schwarzlose is an information studies graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. Zane's coursework is focused on usability and information architecture. When he's not in school, he designs websites at a local IT company. Zane is working with Carin Yavorcik on developing an enhanced version of the TEI plugin for Omeka.

• Adam Soroka

  

  Adam is currently Senior Developer for UVa Library, and was formerly part of the Scholars' Lab R&D team.

• Sarah Storti

  

  Sarah is a 2011-12 Praxis Fellow, former NINES Fellow, and a PhD candidate in the Department of English.

  Twitter: @sarahannestorti

• Annie Swafford

  

  Annie is a 2011-12 Praxis Fellow, a 2012-2013 Scholars' Lab Fellow, and a PhD candidate in the Department of English. She specializes in Victorian poetry, sound studies, and digital humanities. She has a blog on which she posts updates on her two digital projects, Songs of the Victorians and Augmented Notes: http://anglophileinacademia.blogspot.com/

  Twitter: @annieswafford Site: Annie’s Site

• Ed Triplett

  

  Ed is a 2011-12 Scholars' Lab Fellow and Praxis Fellow, and a PhD candidate in the McIntire Department of Art.

  Twitter: @EdTriplett

• Brandon Walsh

  

  Brandon is a 2012-2013 Praxis Fellow and a Ph.D. student in the Department of English. His research focuses on modern and contemporary fiction, especially on Anglophone modernisms and the novel in relation to sound studies and musicology.

• Matt West

  

• Dana Wheeles

  

• Carin Yavorcik

  

  Carin Yavorcik is an information studies graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is especially interested in archives and digital collections. She is currently working with the Scholars' Lab on a TEI plugin for Omeka.