Emily McGinn

Emily McGinn is a specialist in Digital Humanities with a wide breadth of experience from large grant funded projects, to scoping DH assignments for the classroom.  Her work centers on making the barrier to entry for DH as accessible as possible and opening the door to creative research questions that use DH methods to analyze and explore humanities objects of study.

Education

  • Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 2014
  • New Media and Culture Certificate, University of Oregon, 2014
  • M.A. English, Clark University, 2007
  • B.A. English, Clark University, 2003

Professional Experience

  • 2021-2023: Humanities Computing Curriculum Specialist, Princeton University
  • 2019-2021: Head of Digital Humanities, University of Georgia
  • 2016-2019: Digital Humanities Coordinator, University of Georgia
  • 2014-2015: CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities, Lafayette College

Joanne Hélouvry

Joanne Hélouvry is the Academic Liaison for Psychology and Education at the Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University. She holds a Post-Masters Certificate of Advanced Study in Education (CASE) from Notre Dame of Maryland University and Masters in Library & Information Science from the University of WI-Milwaukee. Her work centers upon reference, collection development, and instruction outreach to faculty and students in the School of Education and the Psychological and Brain Sciences departments.

Outside of Johns Hopkins Joanne serves on the editorial board of the Advances in Library Administration and Organization book series and has recently co-edited a book on Building Community Engagement & Outreach in Libraries (2022). Her passions include outreach and teaching with students and faculty as well as research on library spaces and library analytics.

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Mack Zalin

Dr. Mackenzie (Mack) Zalin is Librarian for Classics, Comparative Thought and Literature, Jewish Studies, and Modern Languages and Literatures in the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. In this capacity, he oversees collection development, reference, and instruction in the Sheridan Libraries for French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Yiddish languages and literatures.

In addition to his regular duties at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Zalin serves as the chair of the Advisory Board of the American Office of L’Année philologique to the Society for Classical Studies. He is also an ex officio member of the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique. His recent contributions to the Comedias Sueltas USA project are discussed in an article co-authored with Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum in the 73rd volume of the Bulletin of the Comediantes.

Education

MS, Library Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2019
PhD, Classical Studies, Duke University, 2016
MSt, Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, University of Oxford, 2010
BA, Greek and Roman Studies (Minor in Spanish; honors, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude), Rhodes College, 2009

Jim Gillispie

Education 

  • MA in Library Science, University of Minnesota, 1981
  • BA in Geography, University of Minnesota, 1978

Selected Presentations

  • Exhibit Curator, “Maryland from the Willard Hackerman Map Collection”, George Peabody Library (2018 – 2019)
  • “Developing Library Programs and Services Using Geospatial Data” (2017) at Bridging the Spectrum Symposium in Washington, DC.
  • “Maps for a Digital Age” (2016) At the Special Libraries Association annual conference in Philadelphia.
  • “GIS in the Hands of Future Librarians” (2016) At the Virginia Library Association annual conference in Hot Springs, VA.

Professional memberships/activities 

  • Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Catholic University of America (1996 – present)
  • Member, GeoTech Committee, American Library Association, Map and Geospatial Information Roundtable (2017 – present)
  • Member, Maryland Geological Survey, Data Preservation Advisory Panel (2015 – present)
  • Member, Advisory Council, GIS Program, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University (2008 – present)