CV

M.A.

University of Chicago

Digital Studies of Text and Culture

• Thesis - 'Queer Encodings: An NLP Study of Challenged Books in the United States'
• Coursework in Python programming; text analysis and Machine Learning; Data management, analysis, and visualization; Web development; and Cultural Analytics. Work with High-Performance Computing (HPC).

M.L.S.

Queens College, CUNY

Academic Libraries and Digital Humanities

B.A.

Princeton University

Classics

• Certificates in European Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Humanistic Studies
• Thesis - 'Born or Built: Constructions of Social Difference from Birth and Craft in Greek Creation Myths'
• Graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa

Metadata Specialist

New York Public Library

• Metadata liaison to the Manuscripts and Archives, NYPL Archives, Map, and United States History, Local History and Genealogy Divisions at the NYPL Humanities and Social Sciences Research Library
• Engage in metadata enhancement, creation, and correction for new and legacy digitization
• Carry out ongoing remediation projects to improve accuracy & completeness in line with reparative metadata principles and best practices

Scholarly Communications Fellow

City University of New York, Office of Library Services

• Support Open Access publishing of scholarship in CUNY’s institutional repository, including depositing digital objects, upgrading metadata, and conducting outreach with scholarly community
• Evaluate and advocate for different institutional repository services for adoption by CUNY

Adjunct Digital Scholarship Specialist

New York University Libraries

• Provide reference services and teach original workshops for computational research methods, project design, and tools including publishing platforms, integrated development environments, and linked databases
• Support open access publication of digital scholarship on NYU’s Manifold instance, including authoring LibGuides, teaching workshops, consulting on project design, teaching for course use, delivering targeted trainings, and liaising with the New York City Manifold community
• Conduct outreach for Digital Scholarship Services among subject librarians and faculty at NYU

Mary and Samuel Somit Preservation Metadata Intern

The University of Chicago Library, Preservation

• Developed a metadata application profile and designed workflows for metadata enhancement of the Hanna Papanek Photograph Collection for publication on the UChicago Node platforms
• Evaluated inventories of digitized photographs to prescribe reparative metadata enhancement in collaboration with UChicago’s Metadata Analyst Librarian, Southern Asian Studies Librarian, Preservation Department, Digital Library Development Center, and Digital Strategies and Services Division
• Established key points of collaboration and workflow integration between the University of Chicago Library and the Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment (OCHRE) graph database system

Digitization Assistant

The University of Chicago Library, Digitization

• Handled and digitized texts from the University of Chicago's Special Collections including scanning materials, recording metadata, and performing quality control of digital copies
• Designed and implemented digitization workflows for use by Special Collections and the Digitization Unit
• Organized digital files and executed Optical Character Recognition (OCR) processes on digitized materials

Associate Editor; Research Associate and Assistant Lexicographer

Literary Dictionary Project (forthcoming)

• Edited entry quality, spelling, grammar, and formatting consistency for 4,300 headword bilingual scholarly dictionary accompanying a multivolume literary work
• Managed and performed data entry for Microsoft Excel lexicon of headwords including reference numbers, sense definitions, parts of speech, contextual labels, and quotations

Program Officer

The Siam Society and Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage Alliance

• Organized a conference held by the Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage Alliance (SEACHA) in January 2023 on Climate Change and Cultural Heritage in Southeast Asia
• Coordinated members of SEACHA, sponsors, the Siam Society’s member volunteers, youth participants, civic society leaders, and academics from ten ASEAN nations
• Organized a capacity-building workshop for Southeast Asian youth in August 2022 exploring the intersections of culture and climate action alongside effective multimedia communication

Course Fellow for HUM295: Humanistic Approaches to Media and Data

Center for Digital Humanities and Freshman Scholars Institute, Princeton University

• Facilitated small-group discussions with students to foster critical analysis and comprehension of mass and social media from social justice frameworks
• Mentored and supported first-generation, low-income students entering Princeton

Research Assistant to Professor Wendy Belcher

Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary Project

• Reconfigured the citations from the Latin manuscripts of the original Ge‘ez to be more accessible
• Catalogued and translated from Latin 25 stories from Ethiopian folklore on the miracles of Mary

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Digital Studies of Language, Culture, and History

University of Chicago

Awarded in 2024 as the inaugural recipient. Given to a student who has demonstrated exemplary academic excellence, fostered a culture of collaboration, provided significant contributions to their research field, and/or created positive student experiences in the Digital Studies cohort and classroom.

Mary and Samuel Somit Preservation Internship

University of Chicago Library

The Mary and Samuel Somit Preservation Internship Program at the University of Chicago Library offers an annual six-week internship in the areas of library preservation, conservation, digitization and digital library collections.

Graduate Student Research and Travel Grant

University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

Digital Studies Scholarship for Graduate Study

University of Chicago

Princeton in Asia Fellowship

Princeton in Asia

Senior Thesis Research Grant

Princeton University's Humanistic Studies Program

Behrman Fellowship

Behrman Undergraduate Society, Princeton University