Lynda Kellam

As the Snyder-Granader Director of Research Data and Digital Scholarship (RDDS), Lynda provides vision, guidance, and supervision for library professionals and students in data science, digital humanities, digital scholarship, GIS, ScholarlyCommons, and research data management and services.

Before her current role, Lynda was the Head of Research Data Services in RDDS at Penn. She was the Senior Data Librarian at the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (now the Cornell Center for Social Sciences). At Cornell, she managed the CISER Data and Reproduction Archive and supported the Freedom on the Move project. Before that, she was the Research Data Services Coordinator and Assistant Director of International & Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 

She serves as the Secretary of IASSIST, an international data professionals organization, and is the past President of GODORT and past Chair of ACRL's PPIRS.

She holds a PhD in American History from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, an MA in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MLIS from UNCG.