Speaker: Jean Bauer

Jean Bauer is the Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown University and part of the Brown University Library's Center for Digital Scholarship, where she works with faculty, students, and fellow librarians to design and implement projects that showcase and facilitate scholarship in the humanities. Through a combination of formal training and curiosity she is an early American historian, database designer, and photographer. She is finishing her dissertation "Revolution-Mongers: Launching the U.S. Foreign Service, 1775-1825" in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and has developed The Early American Foreign Service Database (www.eafsd.org). For more information, see her website www.jeanbauer.com

Speaker: Christopher Bavitz

Christopher T. Bavitz is Assistant Director of Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic, based at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is also a Lecturer on Law at HLS. Chris has concentrated his practice on intellectual property and media law, particularly in the areas of music, entertainment, and technology. Prior to joining the Clinic, Chris served as Senior Director of Legal Affairs for EMI Music North America. From 1998-2002, Chris was a litigation associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and RubinBaum LLP / Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman, where he focused on copyright and trademark matters. Chris received his B.A., cum laude, from Tufts University in 1995 and his J.D. from University of Michigan Law School in 1998.

Speaker: Jessica Branco Colati

As Digital Initiatives Librarian at WPI, Jessica Branco Colati coordinates digital collections and repository services for the library and campus partners. She’s served as the Director of Preservation Services at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, the Director of Repository Services at the Colorado Alliance, and worked with physical and digital collections at Tufts, Smithsonian, and the WRLC. A graduate of Tufts University and Simmons GSLIS, she currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Digital Commonwealth, chairing the Portal, Repository, Technology, and Standards (PRTS) committee. Jessica frequently presents, publishes, and consults on digital topics and projects both regionally and nationally. She and her husband, Greg, are also active faculty for the Society of American Archivists (SAA), offering courses on building digital collections, digital repositories, and metadata.


Speaker: Elisa Lanzi

Elisa Lanzi is Director of the Imaging Center at Smith College where she is involved in building digital collections and implementing tools for teaching and learning. She also serves as Project Manager for Digital Asset Management and Preservation as part of the Information Technology Strategic plan at the College. Throughout her career Elisa’s focus has been digital practice, metadata, and cultural materials in the context of visual collections, libraries, and museums. She developed a particular interest in vocabularies and thesauri from her work at the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus.

Elisa is a grant project leader for Historic Dress: The Center for the Study of Clothing, Costume, Fashion and Culture. A Five Colleges Digital Humanities Project http://historicdress.org/wordpress/. She is active in the Five Colleges community and recently chaired the Five Colleges Intellectual Property Policies for Shared Media Committee. As a librarian and papermaking artist she serves on the Book Studies Concentration Advisory Group at Smith. She has presented at NERCOMP, Museum Computer Network, NITLE, Webwise, ACRL, ALA, VRA, and numerous other cultural information conferences. Elisa has served as President of the Visual Resources Association and Chairman of the Board of the VRA Foundation. She holds a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University at Albany; her undergraduate work is in English and Art.


Speaker: Dana Leibsohn

Dana Leibsohn is the Priscilla Paine van der Poel Professor of Art History, and currently serves as Faculty Director of the Five Colleges Digital Humanities Project (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts). With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Argosy Foundation, she co-authored Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820 — a digital project on Latin American art. In 2012-2013, she is co-organizing and leading a faculty research seminar, “From Hypercities to Big Data and #alt-ac: Debates in the Digital Humanities” at the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute (Smith College). Leibsohn is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Art Bulletin and the interdisciplinary journal, Colonial Latin American Review. Her research addresses indigenous visual culture in colonial Latin America and trans-Pacific trade in the early modern period; her courses focus on visual culture in Mexico and Peru, early modern exchange, and the history of architecture.

Speaker: Elli Mylonas

Elli Mylonas has been developing, implementing and collaborating on digital humanities projects at Brown University since 1994, first at the Scholarly Technology Group, and as a Digital Humanities Librarian in Research and Outreach Services and the Center for Digital Scholarship. She has worked on numerous DH projects in topics ranging from monastic archaeology to classical inscriptions to Italian literature. As part of CDS, she works closely with the Brown Digital Repository team to create projects that use the BDR as their infrastructure. From her earliest involvement in digital humanities, she has always emphasized the importance of creating and maintaining robust humanities data. Her background is in Classics.

Speaker: Tom Scheinfeldt

Tom Scheinfeldt is Director-at-Large of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University/ For more than a decade, Tom has provided strategic vision for CHNM and has directed many of its award-winning digital humanities projects, including THATCamp, Omeka, and the September 11 Digital Archive. In addition to his duties at CHNM, Tom is President of the Corporation for Digital Scholarship, the organization behind Collaborative Storage for Zotero and Omeka.net. Trained as an historian of science and public historian with a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and master’s and doctoral degrees from Oxford, Tom has written and lectured extensively about the history of museums and the role of history in culture. Among his many publications, Tom is a recent contributor to Debates in Digital Humanities (University of Minnesota Press) and co-editor of Hacking the Academy (University of Michigan Press). Tom blogs about digital humanities and the business of digital humanities at Found History <foundhistory.org> and co-hosts the Digital Campus podcast <digitalcampus.tv> will his colleagues Dan Cohen, Amanda French, and Mills Kelly. You can follow Tom on Twitter @foundhistory.

Speaker: Ann Whiteside

Ann Whiteside is Librarian/Assistant Dean for Information Resources in the Frances Loeb Library and Affinity Head for Affinity Group 4 (Arts, Design, and Music). At Loeb Library, Ann has responsibility for long term vision and for the integration of the library into the intellectual life of the Graduate School of Design. Whiteside was previously Head of Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning at MIT (2006-2010) with responsibility for the overall management of the library, including personnel, budget, collections, and the establishment of new directions and services and for expanding digital resources in close collaboration with faculty. Before moving to MIT, she was Director of the Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library at the University of Virginia (2001-2005). The focus of her work is expanding digital resources in close collaboration with scholars, digital library collection building, and the use of technology to support teaching and research. She is active in many professional organizations and committees that shape approaches to the changing needs and opportunities faced by research libraries in an increasingly digital environment. Partnering with the Society of Architectural Historians, she served as project director of SAHARA, a peer-reviewed online visual archive for architectural history, landscape architecture, and urban planning.