Meet the 2021 Liaisons

Rebecca Yvonne Bayeck

Postdoctoral Fellow
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Rebecca Y. Bayeck is a CLIR postdoctoral fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture where she engages in digital research, data curation, and inclusive design. She holds a dual-PhD in Learning Design & Technology and Comparative & International Education from the Pennsylvania State University. Her interdisciplinary research is at the interface of several fields including , the learning sciences, literacy studies, and game studies. At this intersection, she explores literacies and learning in games, particularly board games, the interaction of culture, space, and context on design, learning, research, literacies.

I can get you started with…

I can get you started with Omeka

I’m awesome at…

I am awesome at using Audacity to edit audio, and premiere pro for video editing

My current workflow involves…

I am currently working on a project archiving in the 21st century

Cheryl Johnson

Instructional Technologist
Denison University

Cheryl is the instructional technologist for the Department of Modern Languages at Denison. She has a wealth of experience working in collaboration with faculty who teach a variety of languages and with a wide range of technologies. Cheryl also created multimedia and online resources for classroom use. She began her professional career as a Spanish teacher and after moving to Ohio transitioned into using technology to improve learning experiences and outcomes.

I can get you started with…

I can get you started with audio, video and photo editing, Scalar, Omeka, OMHS, WordPress.

I’m awesome at…

I’m awesome at problem solving and finding the right digital tool to accomplish your pedagogical goal(s). I speak Spanish and I am an instructional technologist assigned to the Dept of Modern Languages.

My current workflow involves…

Current project: http://arab-american-project.org/

Past project – online textbook – https://jornadasculturalesblog.wordpress.com/

Austin Mason

Lecturer, Assistant Director of the Humanities Center
Carleton College

Austin Mason is Lecturer in History and Assistant Director of the Humanities Center for the Digital Humanities at Carleton College. Working closely with representatives from the Library, Academic Technology and Information Technology Services, he seeks to foster an interdisciplinary model of collaboration between faculty and undergraduate student-scholars as co-researchers, integrating digital methods deeply into the Liberal Arts curriculum.

He teaches courses on digital methods, digitally-inflected history courses, and collaborative courses in a number of departments that incorporate digital project work. He also co-supervises Carleton’s Digital Humanities Associate and Digital Scholarship Intern programs that train undergraduates to help coordinate research and pedagogy projects in humanities classrooms.

I can get you started with…

GIS and digital mapping in desktop and web-based platforms (ArcGIS, QGIS, GRASS, Carto, Mapbox, StoryMaps, Leaflet, etc.); web design and development for leading DH content management systems (WordPress, Omeka, Scalar, Drupal, Murkurtu); 3D modeling of historical architecture in SketchUp, ancient landscapes and urban layouts through procedural modeling in CityEngine, and artifacts through photogrammetry workflows in Agisoft MetaShape; integrating 3D assets, recreated landscapes, and narrative storytelling in playable experiences through video game engines (Unity, Unreal); basics of text analysis, network analysis, data visualization, etc.

I’m awesome at…

Integrating digital humanities methods and research projects with successful pedagogical strategies in the classroom, which is what I aim to do every term in my own courses and help my colleagues do in theirs through the Digital Humanities program at Carleton College.

My current workflows invole…

Bringing history to interact life by creating spatial databases and 3D GIS scenes that form the foundation of collaborative VR and “serious” video game projects ranging from a tenth-century Viking longship, to eighteenth-century colonial Boston, to nineteenth-century migration between Luxembourg and the American midwest.

R.C. Miessler

Systems Librarian
Gettysburg College

R.C. Miessler is the Systems Librarian at Gettysburg College, coordinates Digital Humanities activities and initiatives on campus, and is co-project lead of The First World War Letters of H.J.C Peirs: A Digital History (https://jackpeirs.org). He is interested in the intersection of DH and video games, digital project preservation workflows for DH projects, and the development of communities of practice with undergraduates.

I can get you started with…

I can get you started with selecting platforms for a digital project, and really getting people off the ground with a number of digital tools. I’ve taught sessions on digital mapping, timelines, content management with WordPress/Scalar/Omeka, TimelineJS, StoryMapJS, ArcGIS Story Maps, Onodo, Voyant, copyright, and can figure out a lot of other things given the time.

I’m awesome at…

I’m awesome at working with digital tools to tell stories, like maps and timelines. I’ve used Scalar and WordPress a lot with website development I’m also pretty awesome with helping folks work through project management and project planning.

My current workflow involves…

My current workflows involve developing sustainable practices for short/long-term digital project preservation that have been created on Gettysburg’s Domain of One’s Own platform including projects created with WordPress and Scalar

Molly Nebiolo

PhD Candidate
Northeastern University

Molly is a PhD candidate at Northeastern University. She also received her MA and graduate certificate in digital humanities from there in 2019. Her own digital work engages with the idea of visualizing and reinterpreting early American city-spaces using digital tools. Her dissertation looks at public health in early colonial cities in Anglo-North America and wants to highlight the diverse perspectives and voices of the inhabitants living in early colonial cities. Molly has been a part of various digital projects, from the Women Writers Project to the Digital Diary of John Quincy Adams at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Her experiences lie in digital databases, text analysis, GIS and mapping, and 3D modelling. She is particularly interested in pedagogy around the digital humanities, and sustainability and accessibility of digital projects.

I can get you started with…

I can get you started with digital mapping using GIS systems and walk you through the steps to digitally model buildings and objects using Sketchup Pro. I can help orient you with VR platforms like Unity and begin web publishing with Omeka or WordPress.

I’m awesome at…

I’m awesome at understanding different ways to visualize and study space in a digital way and how those options can be helpful/ useful pedagogically. I am also awesome at ArcGIS spatial modelling and setting up websites for DH projects.

My current workflow involves…

My current workflows involve working on a digital projects related to my dissertation work (Visualizing Colonial Philadelphia) and being project manager for Historic Epidemics – a new project group at Northeastern that will visualize different historical epidemics. The first of which I will help map the 1721 smallpox epidemic that hit Boston.

Jenna Nolt

Digital Initiatives Librarian
Kenyon College

Jenna is the Digital Initiatives Librarian at Kenyon College. She received her Masters of Library and Information Science from the University of Tennessee in 2011 and has been in her current role since 2014. Jenna administrates the Kenyon’s institutional repository Digital Kenyon (digital.kenyon.edu) and works with faculty, staff, and students to develop new workflows, protocols, and standards for digital scholarship and digital archival projects.

I can get you started with…

A/V editing, digital mapping, timelines, html editing, image editing, Scalar, WordPress, Drupal

I’m awesome at…

Creating Digital Commons (bepress) collections and experimental digital collection design with complex formats; oral history workflows, ethics, and rights; Omeka exhibits; overall project planning and design; metadata creation, standardization, and crosswalking; digitization. You can see my scholarship here: https://works.bepress.com/jenna_nolt/

My current workflow involves…

I work a lot in Digital Commons (digital.kenyon.edu), and have participated in several beta tests with bepress. I oversee Kenyon’s Digitization Lab; currently, we are working on our first 3D scanning project as well as scanning local historical newspapers. I have a strong personal and professional interest in digital ethics, as well as rights issues including licensing, open access, and specifically OERs. I assess new software regularly, and I advise faculty and student digital projects on software choice, potential funding, and workflow. Because I only have student employees and have to train new ones regularly, I maintain a working knowledge of all the hardware and software we use for digitization, content editing, processing, and uploading.

Liz Rodrigues

Assistant Professor, Humanities & Digital Scholarship Librarian
Grinnell College

Liz is Assistant Professor, Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian at Grinnell College. Prior to coming to Grinnell, she was a Council of Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow at the Temple University Digital Scholarship Center. At Grinnell, she is a co-lead of the Vivero Digital Scholarship Fellows program.

I can get you started with…

Project development, identifying tools for specific tasks, textual analysis, mapping.

I’m awesome at…

Building out & troubleshooting in Omeka, developing a metadata schema & creation workflow, assessing the state of your data, building relationships across groups/departments.

My current workflow involves…

Managing the development of my institution’s Islandora instance, doing project recruitment outreach for an undergraduate digital scholarship fellows program, researching platforms for a large-scale visual resource project.

Daniel Story

Digital Scholarship Librarian
University of California, Santa Cruz

Daniel is a historian and digital humanist. He works as a Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of California, Santa Cruz, supporting and collaborating with students and faculty who seek to engage digital methods in their teaching, research, or learning. He is the lead producer of the ten-part documentary podcast Stories from the Epicenter, which explores the experience and memory of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Santa Cruz County, California. He also currently serves as a consulting editor for The American Historical Review and produces the journal’s podcast, AHR Interview. Daniel received his PhD in History from Indiana University, Bloomington.

I can get you started with…

…network analysis tools, text analysis tools, more advanced web mapping solutions like Mapbox and Leaflet, as well as deciding on web platform options.

I’m awesome at…

…audio project design, audio editing in GarageBand and Audacity, and digital mapping in QGIS, ArcGIS, and ArcGIS StoryMaps.

My current workflow involves…

I’m currently consulting on multiple podcast projects. I just completed a large documentary podcast project of my own and am currently in the early stages of planning my next audio project. I also regularly consult on and teaching ESRI tools and QGIS.

Joshua Tuthill

Digital Scholarship Librarian
University of California, Santa Cruz

I come from the world of film and animation. My specialties are in 3D modeling, 3D workflows, Film/Video Production, Film/Video Editing, Film/Video Publishing, Animation, Post Production, and Audio Production. My animated films have been exhibited and garnered awards nationally and internationally and have been featured at such institutions as the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Anthology Film Archives, Slamdance Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Athens International Film + Video Festival, and the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival to name a few. I hold an MFA in Film from Syracuse University.

I can get you started with…

I can get you started with many digital design platforms as well as 3d modeling processes and video/audio editing and compositing.

I’m awesome at…

I’m awesome at digital methods in design, animation, film/video, and compositing workflows.

My current workflow involves…

I am currently working on various projects that involve video and sound recording, video/audio editing, and compositing. I am also working on a project that combines 3d modeling and animation with projection mapping for AR environments.

Katherine (Katie) Walden

Digital Liberal Arts Specialist
Grinnell College

Katie received a Ph.D. in American Studies-Sport Studies at the University of Iowa, where she also earned an M.A. in American Studies-Sport Studies and an M.A. in Library and Information Science, with a Certificate in Public Digital Humanities. Her subject-area research looks at the cultural politics and labor structures related to Minor League Baseball. She has previously worked at the Iowa Women’s Archives, Library of Congress, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and Nashville Symphony Orchestra. When not working at the intersection of humanistic inquiry and digital technologies, she spends her spare time as an avid swimmer, baseball fan, and recovering classical pianist and violist.

I can get you started with…

I can help folks think about how to structure or organize their data, and decide on platforms/tools for analyzing and visualizing data. I can help folks figure out what resources they might need (programming basics, specialized tool, web-based resource) to interact with data and/or primary sources. I can also help folks think about what platform, tool, or interface they might want to use to share their project and information with a broader audience.

I’m awesome at…

Helping project teams design and build data structures. I excel in helping people and teams figure out how to structure their data for the type of research, project, or tool they’re interested in using. Whether we’re talking about metadata for an archive project, geospatial data for a map, or nodes and edges for a network, data cleaning and wrangling are my jam. I can also help folks design public interfaces for their digital projects. Most often, that looks like helping folks with wireframing, customizing WordPress sites, and content development strategies.

My current workflow involves…

I’m increasingly becoming our campus’s go-to person for interactive digital mapping, so I spend a lot of time working with project teams, classes, and student groups using tools like ArcGIS and StoryMaps. My current workflow involves a lot of WordPress site management, through our partnership with Reclaim Hosting. I also spend a lot of time encouraging folks to think deeply about their data structure before making decisions about tools and next steps. I’m moving in the direction of using GitHub for my own projects.

Rebekah Walker

Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian
Rochester Institute of Technology

Rebekah is the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In this role Walker advises students, staff, and faculty on methods of digital pedagogy and project implementation. She leads instruction sessions and workshops, provides one-on-one consultations, and supports the full life cycle of digital project development. She earned an M.A. in Library and Information Science and Graduate Certificate in Public Digital Humanities from the University of Iowa and recently started the Science, Technology, and Public Policy M.S. program at RIT. She has previously worked at a curricular unit in a Rhetoric department, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, and as an administrator in a basic science laboratory.

I can get you started with…

I can get you started with selecting a tool for your project (primarily in web publishing, digital mapping, or exhibit building), as well as understanding the workflow and timeline required. I can get you started with tools for data visualization tools like Tableau and talk to you about the benefits of using R, Python, and integrating D3 into your project.

I’m awesome at…

I’m awesome at explaining project flows and management in group settings, conceiving the balance of media pieces in a project, encoding texts with XML or TEI, building interactive maps in ArcGIS online, using Audacity to edit audio files, and using Camtasia to edit video files.

My current workflow involves…

I’m currently working on a very idiosyncratic text encoding project using customized TEI in which we are encoding and using XSLT and XPath to render the files online; working with Omeka S and customizing its mapping plugin; building new exhibits in Omeka Classic with students; building maps in ArcGIS to highlight demographics and complement a photo exhibition.

Alex Wermer-Colan

Digital Scholarship Coordinator
Temple University Libraries

Alex is the Digital Scholarship Coordinator at Temple University Libraries’ Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio where he directs scholarly and pedagogical projects using emerging digital methods in text mining, collections as data, and immersive technology.

I can get you started with…

I can get you started with user-friendly tools for many data science, mapping, and 3D modeling, as well as introduce coding in Python and R for text mining and web development. I have broad experience with XR technologies and pedagogy

I’m awesome at…

I’m awesome at introductory Python, tools for text mining, Github basics, introductions XR technologies

My current workflow involves…

My current workflows involve using Python to query Wikidata and IIIF APIs. I’m doing work photogrammetry-ing public sculptures to capture 3D models.