CLIR Fellows, 2004-2005

PORTFOLIO	Megan Norcia (Lehigh University) is currently working with Special Collections and the Digital Library Team at Lehigh University to create the "I remain," A Digital Archive of Letters, Manuscripts and Ephemera project , and is engaged in interdisciplinary collaborations with faculty to implement use of the archive in the classroom. During her fellowship year she has also worked on digital projects like "The Vault at Pfaff's: An Archive of Art and Literature by New York City's Nineteenth-Century Bohemians" , has supported instructional technology efforts, has participated in the information literacy initiative, and has presented at and attended faculty development sessions. She received her PhD in Victorian Children's Literature from the University of Florida last year. During her research on nineteenth-century women's education in geography, she worked with varied types of archival materials. At the end of her fellowship, Megan will join the English faculty at SUNY-Brockport. Her reflections about her postdoctoral experience appear in her portfolio.
PORTFOLIO	Daphnée Rentfrow (Yale University) received her PhD in Comparative Literature at Brown University. She subsequently worked as Senior Editor and Project Manager at the Modernist Journals Project at Brown. At Yale, through the rubric of the Electronic Library Initiatives directive, she has served on committees supporting curricular development and pedagogical resources as they relate to new forms of archivization and delivery. She has also helped with the Library's current space redesign planning effort. A complete list of her projects appears in her portfolio.
PORTFOLIO	Patricia Hswe (Slavic and East European Library, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) is a specialist in Slavic and East European Studies who has been involved in two major projects at UIUC. Her primary project has been a database-driven inventory of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian digital projects, to which scholars in the field are invited to contribute directly; she also helped plan a digitization project for the library's Czech and Slovak poster collection. She has more recently assisted in organizing two events for the university's Summer Research Lab, sponsored by the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center: one of these is a discussion group on 19th-Century Russian Reading Culture, and the other is a digital text workshop, geared toward both faculty and librarians. She has also begun taking graduate classes at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at UIUC.
PORTFOLIO	Amanda Watson (University of Virginia) is a University of Michigan PhD currently working on two projects with University of Virginia faculty: a small digitized collection of materials from Special Collections related to the poet Hart Crane (in collaboration with Professor Stephen Cushman), and a web site to supplement an interdisciplinary undergraduate course on the Enlightenment (with Professor David Morris). She is also serving the public at the reference desk of the Alderman Library, teaching user education courses, helping to create metadata for the E-text Center's Early American Fiction digital collection, and sitting on a variety of library committees. Before her fellowship began at UVA, Amanda worked for the Early English Books Online Text Creation project at the University of Michigan.
PORTFOLIO	Christa Williford (Bryn Mawr College) earned a PhD in theatre history from Indiana University-Bloomington before accepting an AHRB-funded research fellowship on historic theatre architecture and computer modeling at the University of Warwick, Coventry, England. She now works from Bryn Mawr College's Special Collections Department on several projects involving instructional technology and visual resources. In the autumn, she completed a prototype web page for student photos of the historic architecture of Philadelphia. This spring, she is managing a digital archive project on nineteenth-century advertising. This digital archive will soon be available on the Triptych server, managed for Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges. In addition to these projects, she has deepened her acquaintance with the wide range of library services and practices by serving on software selection, curriculum support, outreach, and collection development committees.
	Amanda French (North Carolina State University) earned her doctorate from the University of Virginia by writing about contemporary Anglophone poetry. In addition to her varied teaching experience, she has worked extensively for the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and the Electronic Text Center at the UVA Library. Her skills include HTML, SGML, XML, TEI, Unicode, image scanning and manipulation, plus database and web site development. While at NCSU, Amanda has been planning an audio archive project, helping to teach an Honors Seminar on Advanced Research Strategies and Contexts, conducting web site usability tests, and serving on the committee charged with planning an institutional repository. Her fellowship will continue through 2005-2006.
	Ben Huang (East Asian Studies Library, University of Southern California) is particularly focused on Asian American and East Asian collection development, but has also devoted time to helping the library forge stronger links with other California institutions with strong East Asian holdings. In addition to serving on several humanities-centered library committees, he is investigating new uses of digital technology to support faculty research and teaching, and assists in developing digital materials for uses in courses, as needed. Ben's fellowship will continue through 2005-2006.
	Allyson Polsky McCabe (Johns Hopkins University) earned her Ph.D. in 2001 from an interdisciplinary humanities doctoral program at The George Washington University called "Human Sciences: A Program in Language, Culture, and Society." During her CLIR fellowship, she conducted broad survey of the use of electronic resources in research and teaching by humanists, working closely with JHU's Center for Educational Resources (CER), where she was recently hired as a Pedagogy Specialist/Senior Information Technology Specialist.
	Dawn Schmitz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) earned her PhD in Media and Cultural Studies in 2004 from the University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation examined the production and cultural significance of early mass-produced color visual advertisements. This research took her to libraries, archives, museums and historical societies in Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, and Boston. As a result of visiting these places, she decided to pursue a career as an archivist. While finishing her PhD, Dawn also completed an MLIS with a concentration in Archival Studies. During her CLIR fellowship, she has created electronic information-literacy resources for undergraduates enrolled in specific courses at the University of Illinois.
	Rachel Shuttlesworth (University of Alabama) earned her PhD in English-Applied Linguistics from the University of Alabama. Her areas of specialty include Southern American English and the multilingual areas of the Netherlands Antilles region and their influence on the creole language of Papiamentu. She has wide-ranging teaching experience, and during her fellowship has worked to collect together resources to support a variety of library efforts at UA. She will continue her fellowship through the 2005-2006 year.
photo unavailable	Sigrid Anderson Cordell (Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University) wrote her University of Virginia dissertation on Anglo-American women authors. Since in many cases, special collections and on-line, full-text databases were the only sources for her research, she became interested in further exploring rare book and manuscript collections, as well as the on-going process of digitizing archival materials. During her year at Princeton she has been exploring scholarly and pedagogical uses for Princeton's outstanding collections related to the Victorian novel.