Interviews

Joy Zanghi is the Elma Lewis Digital Project Librarian for the Digital Production Services at Snell Library. Joy spoke with Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS Coordinator, about her work with the Elma Lewis papers and the challenges of digitizing archival collections. Her comments have been edited for brevity and clarity. Colleen: To start, could you introduce…

Caitlin Pollock is the Associate Director of the Digital Scholarship Group. Caitlin spoke with Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS Coordinator, about her work co-directing the Boston Research Center. Her comments have been edited for brevity and clarity. Colleen: To start, I think it would be nice if you could just, before getting into BRC, just kind…

Savita Maharaj is the Project Manager for the Early Black Boston Digital Almanac. Savita spoke with Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS Coordinator, about her work with the EBBDA as both a Northeastern undergraduate and a PhD student at Brandeis University. Her comments have been edited for brevity and clarity. Colleen: Thanks again for meeting with me.…

Nirmala Menon is a professor of Literature and Digital Humanities at IIT Indore, and is visiting the CDS as a Fulbright Scholar this year. Nirmala spoke with Julia Flanders, CDS Director, about her work establishing a DH center in India and her experience on the Fulbright. Their comments have been edited for brevity and clarity.…

Gina Nortonsmith is the Archivist for African American History in the Archives and Special Collections in Snell Library. Joel Lee is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group (DSG), also in Snell. They both work on the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice project (CRRJ). Gina and Joel spoke with Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS Coordinator,…

Kehinde Ilegbusi is a History PhD student. Holly Lyczak is an undergraduate majoring in International Affairs and Spanish. They both work for the Reckonings Project. Kehinde and Holly spoke with Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS Coordinator, about their work with the Reckonings Project and the various different initiatives that Reckonings is pursuing. Their comments have been…

Libby Collard and Odile Jordan are both Research Assistants for Mapping Black London and PhD students in History at Northeastern University London. Libby and Odile spoke with Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS Coordinator, about their work with Mapping Black London, how their personal scholarship has been shaped by the experience, and the public responsibility of making…

Cara Hullings is the project coordinator for DAILP. Hailey Punis is an undergraduate English major with a minor in Writing and Art. They both work for the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence (DAILP). Cara and Hailey spoke with Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS Coordinator, about their work with DAILP and how community care is central…

Faith Maldonado is a second year PhD student in the English department on the literature track. She is also the Lab Lead for Boston’s Digital Transgender Archive lab. She is broadly interested in gender, and her research interests are in gender and sexuality within post-colonial and semi-colonial literature. Faith spoke with Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS…