About
I coordinate Audiovisual and Digital Humanities collections, as well as serve as the librarian for English and American literature and performing arts (including film studies) at Michigan State University Libraries. Education
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago (English, Creative Writing), 1997
MLS, Wayne State University, 2001
MA, Michigan State University (English), 1989
BA, Michigan State University (English and Telecom), 1987 Projects
Studies in Radicalism Online (“SiRO”:
http://www.studiesinradicalism.org) .
SiRO (Studies in Radicalism Online, a “node” within the Advanced Research Consortium, or
ARC) is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of resources for the study of radicalism and the digital research environment. The activities of this effort are driven by three primary goals:
- to provide a virtual community for those engaged in the study of radicalism and
- to meet emerging needs of this community, including making recommendations on technological and scholarly standards for electronic scholarship, the aggregation of data, and the ability to discover and repurpose this data, and
- to aggregate resources (both primary and secondary) relevant to radicalism studies.
To these ends SiRO has created partnerships between the Michigan State University Libraries, the Journal for the Study of Radicalism (MSU Press), and ARC (the Advanced Research Consortium:
http://idhmc.tamu.edu/arcgrant/). For more on ARC see the article from Scholarly and Research Communication:
http://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/view/189 . Over time SiRO hopes to vet and publish born-digital projects through peer review, aggregate top-quality digital objects, and to generally create a community through which the study of radicalism moves scholarship forward in these areas.
