About
I am a wayward researcher and practitioner of scholarly publishing, and the principal of Forthcoming LLC, a publishing consultancy. Education
BA, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School, 2002
MS, School of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 2013
PhD program, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 2003–2005
PhD program, Department of Informatics, University of California–Irvine, 2015–2019
[It’s complicated] Work Shared in CORE
Conference papers
Presentations
Other Publications
Elfenbein, Timothy. 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
Principal, Forthcoming LLC (a publishing consultancy), 2021–
Project Manager, Thoth Metadata Management and Dissemination System, Community-led Open Publication Infrastructure for Monographs project, 2021–2022
Research Affiliate, Invest in Open Infrastructure, 2022–2023
