About
Timothy Elfenbein is the founder of Forthcoming LLC, a publishing consultancy that works with scholar-led and society publishers, as well as publishing infrastructure initiatives, and is a member of the
Limn editorial collective. His research focuses on publishing infrastructure and evolving knowledge practices.
Education
BA, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School, 2002
PhD program, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 2003–2005
MS, School of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 2013
PhD program, Department of Informatics, University of California–Irvine, 2015–2019 KCWorks
- Other text document
- Other presentation material
- Report
- Conference paper
- Thesis or dissertation
Publications
[All works below are open access]
Elfenbein, Timothy W., & Andrew S. Hoffman. 2024. “Towards Meaningful Institutional Change: Responsive Bureaucracy and the Governance of Anthropological Ethics.”
Anthropology Today 40, no. 2: 4–7.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12871.
Elfenbein, Timothy W. 2014. “
Cultural Anthropology and the Infrastructure of Publishing”.
Cultural Anthropology> 29, no. 2: 288–303.
https://doi.org/10.14506/ca29.2.06.
Elfenbein, Timothy W. 2013. “Metadata Pragmatics: Toward a Unified Semiotic Framework.” Masters paper, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, School of Library and Information Science, May.
https://doi.org/10.17615/yzbs-2j92.
Projects
Assistant Managing Editor, Books Division, Duke University Press, 2008–2011
Managing Editor,
Cultural Anthropology, 2013–2015
Founder, Forthcoming LLC (a publishing consultancy), 2021–
Project Manager, Thoth Metadata Management and Dissemination System, Community-led Open Publication Infrastructure for Monographs project, 2021–2022
Member of the editorial collective of
Limn, 2023–
Memberships
American Anthropological Association
Society for Social Studies of Science
