Program Planning Committee
Shelley Arlen is the U.S./British History Librarian at the Humanities & Social Sciences Library West at UF. She earned a B.A. in Anthropology at Barnard College, and three master's degrees at the University of Oklahoma (Library Science, Anthropology, English) where she worked as Photographic Archivist, Humanities Librarian and later, Head of Reference. Her research interests include using primary documents to engage undergraduate students in information literacy. With the Digital Worlds Institute, she created online digital tutorials (Pyrates: Truth Be Told; Captain Kidd: Pirate or Privateer?) and The French in Florida: 1562-1566, featuring the engravings of Theodore de Bry. Her interest in British classical scholars led to her book, The Cambridge Ritualists: An Annotated Bibliography of the Works by and about Jane Ellen Harrison, Gilbert Murray, Francis M. Cornford, and Arthur Bernard Cook (Scarecrow Press.)
Dr. Angelos Barmpoutis is currently an Associate Professor in the On-Line Institute and the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida. He is also the coordinator of research and technology in the Digital Worlds Institute, and affiliate faculty of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department and the Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Florida. His current research projects focus on interdisciplinary applications of computer science and engineering to the service of the broad areas of learning and training. Prof. Barmpoutis areas of expertise include machine vision and applications, virtual reality in medicine and education, human motion capture and analysis using RGB-D cameras (such as Microsoft Kinect sensor), and image processing and visualization. Dr. Barmpoutis has coauthored numerous highly cited journal publications, conference articles and book chapters in the aforementioned topics, and has received several awards and grants from various funding agencies including the US National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health, and the US Department of Transportation.
Dr. Eleni Bozia is an Assistant Professor of Classics and Digital Humanities in the Department of Classics and the Digital Worlds Institute. Dr. Bozia brings her expertise in Imperial Greek and Latin literature, Ethnicity and National Identity Issues, and Digital Humanities. Dr. Bozia also serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Greek Studies and the Associate Director of the Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project. She also holds a Visiting Research appointment at the Universität Leipzig in Germany. In the field of Digital Humanities, Dr. Bozia works on digital preservation of artifacts, explores computer assisted methods for the enhanced analysis of languages, and promotes the bidirectional relationship between humanities and sciences.
Prof. Bozia is the recipient of collaborative grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Le ministère de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherché, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenchaften, and several national and international awards including the Assistant Professor Excellence Award, the Young Researcher Fellowship from La Fondation Hardt, the e-humanities award from the Universität Leipzig, the Mary A. Sollman Scholarship of the American Academy in Rome, and the CIEGL Bursary from the University of Oxford.
Dr. Crystal Felima is the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Caribbean Studies Data Curation at the University of Florida. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida in Fall 2017. Crystal serves as a team member of the UF's Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) to facilitate campus-wide data curation activities and to forge new collaborations to extend the George A. Smathers Libraries' capacity to support research and technology initiatives at the university. She works with experts in Caribbean Studies to identify needs for data curation and extend support and content within dLOC. She also consults with researchers and scholars on emerging trends and best practices in digital humanities, data curation, and e-scholarship in Caribbean Studies. Website: crystalfelima.com
Dr. Sara Gonzalez is the Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Visualization Librarian at the Marston Science Library at the University of Florida. A former geophysicist, her research interests include emerging technologies in libraries, modeling and visualization of data, and scientific literacy instruction. She coordinates the UF Libraries 3D service and co-authored the book “3D Printing: A Practical Guide for Librarians”.
Dr. Hélène Huet is the Principal Investigator, “Digital Scholarship Workshop” Strategic Opportunity Program Grant. Dr. Huet is the European Studies Librarian at the University of Florida. She holds a Ph.D in French and Francophone Studies from the Pennsylvania State University. At UF, Hélène oversees many international collections and collaborates on a variety of projects from creating exhibits to organizing conferences. She also helps facilitate undergraduate and graduate students’ research through library instruction sessions and workshops. As a digital humanist and the Vice-Chair of the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH), a collective of institutions in Florida that seeks to promote an understanding of the humanities in light of digital technologies and research, she is particularly interested in studying how digital tools can help facilitate students and faculty’s research. Finally, as the Chair of the Collection Development Working Group of the Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL), she is currently overseeing the creation of a list of French and Francophone Digital Humanities projects. This list showcases the various digital projects on which scholars are working in the US as well as in France and Francophone countries and help foster new collaborations between scholars and institutions.
Melissa Jerome s the Project Manager for the Florida & Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project (FPRDNP) and is responsible for all the day-to-day activities for the project, which includes all technical and administrative activities related to the digitizing of the selected newspapers, maintaining communication with project partners and vendors, as well as overseeing and assisting with outreach activities and publicity efforts. Melissa received a BA in Criminology and an MS in Pharmacy from UF and is currently pursuing an MS in Information from FSU. She has been employed in the Smathers Libraries for nine years in various departments including Access Support in their Interlibrary Loan and Course Reserves departments and in the Circulation Department as acting supervisor for the overnight hours.
Dr. Laurie N. Taylor is UF's Digital Scholarship Librarian, where her work focuses on socio-technical (people, policies, technologies, communities) needs for scholarly cyberinfrastructure. She works heavily with the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) where she is the Digital Scholarship Director, Digital Humanities Working Group and the DH Graduate Certificate, LibraryPress@UF where she is the Editor-in-Chief, and Research Computing with these and other activities geared towards enabling a culture of radical collaboration that values and supports diversity and inclusivity. Website: www.laurientaylor.org | Twitter: @laurien
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