CV


About Me

I work in digital public humanities, which means proactively engaging with audience, content, and methods in relation to the projects we build with technology and data. I create and apply digital tools to foster connection and dialogue around cultural heritage. Having played an active role in shaping collaborations, training, and programming around understanding data, I am especially excited to tackle data-related projects and educate others to do the same.

Education

2018
Brown University
MA, Public Humanities •
2016
University of Massachusetts Amherst
BA, History; BA, Digital Humanities • magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

University Employment

2022–Present
Project Lead, DocMaps
Knowledge Futures.
2021–2022
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica Curator of Digital Humanities
Penn Libraries.
2019–2021
Judaica Digital Humanities Coordinator
Penn Libraries.
2018–2019
Researcher and Collaborator, Mapping Violence
Brown University, Department of American Studies.
2017
Teaching Assistant
Brown University, School of Professional Studies.
2016-2017
Digital Projects Assistant
Brown University, Department of American Studies.

Public Humanities Employment

2022
Web Developer
Mark Twain House and Museum
2019–Present
Web Manager
Contingent Magazine
2018
Exhibition Researcher
New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center
2018
Humanities Scholar
New Bedford Ballet Foundation
2018
Digital Humanities Fellow
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
2016
Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access
Evaluation Assistant
2016–2018
Park Ambassador (Volunteer)
New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park
2016
Collections and Curation Management Intern
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
2015
Visitor Services Intern
Rhode Island Historical Society

Publications

Chapters
“Combining Values of Museums and Digital Culture in Digital Public History”
2022 • Handbook of Digital Public History (De Gruyter Oldenbourg)
Editor
“Issue 2: Scribes
2021 • Startwords (Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton)
Journals
“Scribes of the Cairo Geniza”
February 2021 • Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook
“Scribes, Scholars, and Scripts: Reviewing Data from Scribes of the Cairo Geniza
September 2020 • Manuscript Studies: a Journal of Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
Web
“Who are the #GenizaScribes: 2019-2020 Community Survey Report”
February 2020 • Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
“Biographical Sketch of Helen Emerson”
January 2020 • Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920
“Scribes of the Cairo Geniza: Reviewing Sorting Phase Data”
April 2019 • Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
Datasets
“Union List of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Serials Published in the United States”
January 2020 • Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
“Dataset: Scribes of the Cairo Geniza, Sorting Phase, August 2017 - February 2019”
January 2020 • Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
“Dataset for Judaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900”
October 2019 • Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
“Visualizing the Crystal Palace”
June 2018 • Brown University

Conferences

Conference Talks
“Collections as Data: Judaica Digital Humanities at the Penn Libraries”
Jan. 2023 • Modern Language Association • San Francisco, California,
“Creative Approchaes to Data”
Jan. 2023 • Southeast Data Librarian Symposium • Virtual,
“Building a Judaica DH Program”
January 2021 • Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH); University of Luxembourg • Virtual,
“Digital Public Humanities for Historians”
Nov. 2018 • American Studies Association • Atlanta, Georgia,
“#Resistance: Rogue Government Twitter and Digital Political Activism”
Oct. 2017 • Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts • Baltimore, Maryland,
“Courage, Perseverance, and Trust: The Manjiro Story”
May 2018 • UMass Graduate History Association • Amherst, Massachusetts,
“Charity as Coercion: The Ladies’ Branch of the New Bedford Port Society, 1833-1880”
April 2016 • University of Massachusetts Amherst • Amherst, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference
Roundtables & Panels
“Across the Zooniverse: Science and the Humanities”
April 2021 • Princeton University • Virtual, Panel, A Roundtable at Crowdsourcing and the Humanities: Roundtable Discussions Celebrating Scribes of the Cairo Geniza
“Platforms for People-Powered Research”
April 2021 • Princeton University • Virtual, Panel, A Roundtable at Crowdsourcing and the Humanities: Roundtable Discussions Celebrating Scribes of the Cairo Geniza
“Meet the Scribes of the Cairo Geniza Project Team”
April 2021 • Princeton University • Virtual, Panel, A Roundtable at Crowdsourcing and the Humanities: Roundtable Discussions Celebrating Scribes of the Cairo Geniza
“Judaica Digital Humanities at the Penn Libraries Overview”
July 2020 • Association of Jewish Libraries • Virtual, Panel, AJL2020
“Scribes, Scholars, & Scripts: Creating a Digital Humanities Community Through Crowdsourcing”
July 2020 • Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations • Ottawa, Ontario//Virtual, Panel, DH2020
“Interpreting Jewish History in Museums and Public History Settings”
March 2020 • National Council for Public History • Atlanta, Georgia//Virtual, Twitter Chat, NCPH 2020
“Cultivating Community with the Cairo Geniza”
Nov. 2019 • Museum Computer Network • San Diego, California, Lightning Talk, MCN 2019
“Mapping Segregated Histories: Digital Research and Visualizations for the Public”
Nov. 2018 • American Studies Association • Atlanta, Georgia, Roundtable, ASA2018
“Cataloging History: Revisualizing the 1853 New York Crystal Palace”
June 2018 • Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations • Mexico City, Mexico, Poster, DH2018
“Public Humanities: Mapping Violence”
May 2018 • Brown University, Department of American Studies • Providence, Rhode Island, Poster, Brown University American Studies Graduate Student Conference
“Mapping Violence”
January 2018 • Northeastern University School of Law • Boston, Massachusetts, Workshop Presentation, The Digital Red Record: The Promises and Perils of Digitally Documenting Historic Racial Violence
“Building a Feminist Future: On (Digital) Pedagogical Praxis”
November 2017 • HASTAC • Orlando, Florida, Panel, HASTAC 2017
“Meeting in the Middle: Community Engagement in a Digital World”
April 2017 • National Council for Public History • Indianapolis, Indiana, Working Group, NCPH 2017

Workshops Led

Build a Digital Exhibit with Wax
University of Pennsylvania. November 2022.
Publish a Digital Collection with CollectionBuilder
University of Pennsylvania. October 2022.
Build a Digital Exhibit with Omeka
University of Pennsylvania. September 2022.
Advocating for Community: Data Collection and Visualization
University of Pennsylvania. June 2022.
Audubon in Action: Creative Approaches to Data
Earth Week Data Jam. April 2022.
Software Carpentry - Python
University of Pennsylvania Libraries. March 2022.
Interactive Web Visualizations with Tableau
University of Pennsylvania Libraries. November 2021.
Analyzing and Visualizing Text with Constellate and ProQuest TDM Studio
University of Pennsylvania Libraries. November 2021.
Data Wranging with Open Refine
University of Pennsylvania Libraries. October 2021.
Omeka Orientation: How to Use This Web Publishing Platform
University of Pennsylvania Libraries. September 2020.
Data Wrangling with Google Sheets
University of Pennsylvania Libraries . July 2020.

Projects

Digital Projects
SNL CoefficientProject Developer. 2021-2022.
Journey 75Web Developer. 2022.
Audubon in Action: Creative Approaches to DataProject Manager/Developer. 2022.
Collections as Data NotebooksProject Manager/Developer. 2021-.
Kislak COVID-19 ResourcesCollaborator. 2019-Present.
Sabato Morais Digital RepositoryProject Manager/Developer. 2022.
Sabato Morais LedgerProject Manager/Developer. 2022.
Judaica AmericanaProject Manager/Developer. 2019-2022.
Scribes of the Cairo GenizaProject Manager. 2019-2022.
Contingent MagazineSite Designer. 2018-Present.
Mapping ViolenceResearcher & Collaborator. 2017-2018.
Visualizing the Crystal PalacePI with Steven Lubar, Steffani Gomez, Brian Croxall, Patrick Rashleigh. 2017–18.
Inside the Lost MuseumPI with Steven Lubar. 2016.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions
BOOK.DATA.FILELead Curator. 2022.
Wheelhouse Technology from Sounding Leads to SatellitesResearcher. 2019.
2018 U.S. Senate Election MapTechnical Lead. 2018.
Senate Staff OfficeTechnical Lead. 2018.

Awards + Grants

MCN Scholar
For Museum Computer Network Annual Conference 2019
Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT) Graduate Student Scholarship
For attendance at the HILT Institute at University of Pennsylvania 2017
New England Museums Association Professional Development Award
For attendance at the NEMA 2016 conference 2016
HASTAC Scholars Fellow
The HASTAC Scholars program is a collective of graduate and undergraduate students who are engaged with innovative projects and research at the intersection of digital media & learning, 21st century education, the digital humanities, and technology in the arts, humanities and sciences 2016-2018

Membership & Service

Membership
Service
Director of CommunicationsNational Emerging Museum Professionals Network. 2020-2022.
Organizing Committee Member, KeystoneDH 2020/2021Keystone DH. 2019–present.
Programming and Scholarship Committee Member, ACH 2019Association for Computers and the Humanities. 2018–19.
Board MemberSomerset Cultural Council. 2016-2018.

Skills & Training

Skills
LanguagesSpanish (conversational).
Computer-Adjacent LanguagesHTML, CSS, Jekyll + Liquid templating, Python (reading & writing), JavaScript (training), R (training).
Social MediaTwitter, Facebook, Instagram.
Content ManagementWordPress, Omeka, Drupal.
Jack of All TradesTableau Public, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, OpenRefine.
Trainings
Carpentries Instructor TrainingThe Carpentries. 2021.
Jekyll Working GroupUniversity of Pennsylvania Libraries. 2019-2020.
Python for Humanists Working GroupUniversity of Pennsylvania Libraries. 2019-2020.
Python for HumanistsHILT (Humanities Intensive Learning & Training). June 2018.
Introduction to Data Analysis in R for #MusetechRsMuseum Computer Network. November 2019.
Experimental Sound Design for Podcasting and VideoAS220 Media Lab. November 2018.
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