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People

Ryan Brubacher, MLS

Visual Resources Curator, Arts and Humanities Specialist

rbrubacher@oxy.edu | x2714

Location: Weingart 109

Ryan works with students and faculty in the arts and humanities in order to improve access to research resources at Occidental College, and to build the skills needed to effectively use resources in a scholarly environment. Expertise: images, visual literacy, copyright, photography, arts, research, cataloging and asset management.

 

Daniel Chamberlain, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Digital Learning and Research

chamberlain@oxy.edu | x2732

@ddchamberlain

Location: CDLR Academic Commons Ground Floor

 

Daniel leads the campus effort to explore new ways of teaching with media technologies in and out of the classroom and to consider how their research and publication strategies might benefit from networked collaboration and open access platforms. Expertise: media studies, urbanism, mapping, data visualization.

 

Wendy Hsu, Ph.D.

Mellon Digital Scholarship Fellow

hsuw@oxy.edu | x1473

http://beingwendyhsu.info | @wendyfhsu

Location: CDLR Academic Commons Ground Floor

 

Wendy explores the use of digital media and technology in the study of contemporary music cultures. Expertise: digital ethnography, GIS, data visualization, mapping, social media, blogging. More about Wendy...

 

Kate Dundon, MLIS

Arts and Humanities Specialist

dundon@oxy.edu

Location: 2nd Floor of the Academic Commons

Kate helps humanities students to effectively find and use information resources in a scholarly environment, and supports Oxy's open access publishing platform OxyScholar. Expertise: English, history, critical theory, humanities.

 

Carey Sargent, Ph.D.

Head of Instruction and Research

sargent@oxy.edu | x2942

Location: 2nd Floor of the Academic Commons

 

Carey conducts and supports public scholarship in the social sciences through the creative and experimental uses of digital media. Expertise: collaboration, data discovery, data visualization, on-line search tools, social media, blogging. More about Carey...

 

Marsha Schnirring, MLIS

Associate Vice-President, Scholarship Technology

mschnirring@oxy.edu | x2542

Location: 2nd Floor of the Academic Commons

Marsha is responsible for ensuring the appropriate mix of information resources, technologies, and services to support faculty and students in achieving their teaching, learning, and research goals. Expertise: disruptive thinking, iPad, LIB research resources, Moodle, OxyScholar, Prezi, Zotero. More about Marsha...

 

Suzanne Scott, Ph.D.

Mellon Digital Scholarship Fellow

suzannescott@oxy.edu | x2671

@iheartfatapollo

Location: CDLR Academic Commons Ground Floor

Suzanne explores digital fan cultures, the transformative works they produce, and the collapsing binary between producers and consumers within convergence culture. Expertise: media studies, transformative works, participatory culture, blogging, social media, remix video, copyright. More about Suzanne...

 

Adrianne Wadewitz, Ph.D.

Mellon Digital Scholarship Fellow

wadewitz@oxy.edu | @wadewitz

Website | Location: CDLR Academic Commons Ground Floor

 

Adrianne is investigating the language of sensibility in 18th-century children's literature using data mining. Expertise: archives, "big data", social media, wikis, digital pedagogy, children's literature, 18th-century literature. More about Adrianne...

 

Jay Yip, MS

Instructional Technologist

yip@oxy.edu | x2946

Location: 2nd Floor of the Academic Commons

Jay is an Instructional Technologist looking to best integrate the use of classroom and web technologies into the teaching and learning process. Expertise: Learning Management Systems (Moodle), podcasting, blogging, GarageBand, iMovie.

 

Digital Scholarship Student Assistants
 

 

 

 

Joshua Biers, Occidental College Class of 2013

Digital Scholarship Student Assistant

biers@oxy.edu

 

 

 

 

 

Josh helps edit and update Moodle courses as well as contributes to the maintenance of the CDLR and Scholarship Technology website. Expertise: Moodle, Google Docs, Garageband, social media.

 

Mara Dauber, Occidental College Class of 2014

Digital Scholarship Student Assistant

mdauber@oxy.edu

 

 

Mara assists professors and students in the use of scholarship technologies with the goal to create unique and compelling learning environments. Expertise: Prezi, Google Docs, Google Sites, Google Maps, Moodle, GarageBand, iMovie.

 

 

Ella Fornari, Occidental College Class of 2016

Digital Scholarship Student Assistant

fornari@oxy.edu

 

 

 

Ella assists in the design and maintenance of the CDLR website and in teaching professors and students about uses of new technologies.  Expertise: Moodle, Google Docs, iMovie, social media.

 

 

 

Sophie Pawlowski, Occidental College Class of 2013

Digital Scholarship Student Assistant

pawlowski@oxy.edu

 

 

 

 

Sophie helps edit and update the CDLR and Scholarship Technology's web presence and assists professors in learning programs and technologies. Expertise: blogging, Google Docs, Moodle, iMovie, social media.

 

 

 

 

Meleana Morioka, Occidental College Class of 2014

Digital Scholarship Student Assistant

mmorioka@oxy.edu

 

 

 

Meleana helps create content for OxyScholar, a platform of scholarly work by members of the Oxy community.  Expertise: web design, Wordpress, social media, Google applications, data entry.