Grants
2026 Colgate University Upstate Institute Grant: The Librarians Documentary Screening and Panel in collaboration with the Mid-York Library System
2025 Colgate University Upstate Institute Grant: Adirondack Center for Writing Poetry Machines
2024 CNY Humanities Corridor Grant: Zine Workshop & Panel, Rush Rheese Library
2024 Colgate University Research Council Discretionary Grant: International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology & CARTO Annual Conference: Navigating the Future of Data
2023 Colgate University Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute Grant: Alma Stokey’s Personal Papers
2023 CNY Humanities Corridor Grant: Creative Writing & Archives Mini-Seminar with M.C. Kinniburgh
2023 Colgate University Major Grant Award: Mapping to Comprehend, Mapping to Protect: A Website to Enable Research and Protect Cultural Property (consultant)
2023 Colgate University Research Council Discretionary Grant: American Statistical Association Data Science Symposium
2022 CNY Humanities Corridor Grant: Hamilton College Letterpress Studio Workshop
2021 Central New York Library Resources Council Digitization and Access Grant: Building a Metadata Schema for the the Alma Gracey Stokey Archive
2021 Colgate University Research Council Discretionary Grant: Academic Data Science Alliance Affiliated Lab
2020 CNY Humanities Corridor Grant: Data in the Humanities
2020 Colgate University Research Council Discretionary Grant: Theorizing the Web
2019 Colgate University Research Council Publication Grant: Engaging Researchers with Data Management: The Cookbook
2019 Institute of Museum and Library Services, Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program: The New York Data Carpentries Library Consortium
2019 Colgate University Research Council Discretionary Grant: Awesome Summit & American Library Association Pitch Event
2019 Central New York Libraries Resources Council New Initiatives Grant: Data Analysis & Collaboration Network (co-PI with Will Cipolli)
2018 Colgate University Lampert Global Partnership Grant: Data to Dome: Visualizing Research Data from New York to Cape Town.
2018 Colgate University Research Council Discretionary Grant: Dataverse Community Meeting at Harvard University
2018 ENY/ACRL Professional Development Grant: American Library Association 2018 Midwinter Future of Libraries Symposium
2017 LANL Foundation Educational Outreach Small Grants: Certification Program in Digital Fabrication, Making and Manufacturing. Make Santa Fe + ¡YouthWorks!
2016 LANL Foundation Educational Outreach Small Grants: Tightly Integrated Coworker, Educational, and Entrepreneurial Space. Make Santa Fe + Meow Wolf
2015 GLCA-GLAA Expanding Collaboration Initiative Grant: Strengthening Bonds Through a Collaborative Professional Development Program with Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco
2014 Andrew W. Mellon From Projects to Pedagogy Grant: Digital Burma: Building a Cartographic Narrative of American Baptist Missionary Activity in 19th Century Burma
2011 Andrew W. Mellon Digital Collections Grant: Digital Archiving Intentional Communities: Denison University Homestead Archive
2011 Andrew W. Mellon Digital Collections Grant: Digital Archiving and Open-Access Creation in Undergraduate Literary Journals
2011 Andrew W. Mellon Digital Collections Grant: Digital Archiving and Open-Access Creation in Undergraduate Religion Journals
2011 Andrew W. Mellon Digital Collections Grant: Digital Archiving and Open-Access Creation in Undergraduate Literary Criticism Journals
2011 Andrew W. Mellon Digital Collections Grant: Digital Archiving and Open-Access Creation in Undergraduate Philosophy and Classics Journals
2011 Academic Library Association of Ohio Research Grant: Understanding the Network of Influence in Scholarly Communication and Collaboration in Open-Access Humanities.
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Professional Development Grant, Carolyn Craig Franklin and Dr. Carl M. Franklin Library Endowment Fund, Denison University
2008 Institute of Museum and Library Services Connecting to Collections Bookshelf Grant
Honors
2025-26 Professional Affiliate, Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
2022 Leading Change Institute Fellow
2018 Library Journal Reviewer of the Year
2018 Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians, Harvard Graduate School of Education + Association of College and Research Libraries
2015 Special Guest Librarian 28th Feria Internacional del Libro de Bogotá (FILBo), ProColombia, Colombian Book Chamber, and Bogotá’s Chamber of Commerce
2013 Special Guest Librarian 27th Guadalajara International Book Festival (FIL), American Library Association and the Organizing Committee of FIL
2012 Library Journal Movers & Shakers
2009 Emerging Leader Class of the American Library Association
2007 Initiate into the Alpha Chapter of Beta Phi Mu International Honor Society for Library and Information Science
Awards
2023 Scholarship, Force11 Scholarly Communications Institutue
2017 Bibliography Fellowship, Modern Languages Association
2015 DLF+Force 11 Cross-Pollinator Award, Digital Library Federation
2014 Digital Humanities Summer Institute Scholarship, University of Victoria
2009 Frank B. Sessa Scholarship from Beta Phi Mu
2006-2007 Graduate Assistantship, Oak Street Library Conservation Lab, University of Illinois
2006-2007 Graduate Assistantship, Illinois Newspaper Project, University of Illinois
2005 Dean’s Graduate Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis
2000-2002 Arts and Sciences Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis
2000-2002 Barbara S. Schaps Thomas and David M. Thomas Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis
1998-2000 Jan Sorenson Memorial Scholarship (Automotive Recyclers Association Scholarship Foundation)
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