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Research Data and Digital Scholarship Staff

Nicky Agate

Snyder-Granader Assistant University Librarian for Research Data & Digital Scholarship

agate@upenn.edu

Nicky leads the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship, supporting faculty and students whose research makes intensive use of digital methods and tools, including research data, across the disciplines. Nicky is a co-PI on the HuMetricsHSS initiative and immediate past chair of the Ivy+ Digital Scholarship Group.

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Cosette Bruhns Alonso

Contemporary Publishing Fellow

cabruhns@upenn.edu

Cosette spearheads a pilot collaboration between RDDS and the UPenn Press to design and develop digital publications that advance scholarly ideas through multimodal and interactive digital enhancements. She consults on digital publication paths and facilitates new forms of scholarly communication across campus.

Cosette Bruhns Alonso

Dorothy Espalto

ScholarlyCommons Associate

espalto@upenn.edu

Dorothy manages ScholarlyCommons, the University of Pennsylvania's institutional repository. She provides training and support to ScholarlyCommons users across campus and works together with library and campus partners to highlight the benefits of making scholarship at Penn openly available.

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Cynthia Heider

Public Digital Scholarship Librarian

heider@upenn.edu

Cynthia initiates and supports digital projects, scholarship, and programs that center community partnerships and public engagement. She consults with audiences on and beyond campus to actively facilitate opportunities for equitable collaboration, resource sharing, and critical inquiry in the digital realm.

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Cassandra Hradil

Digital Humanities Specialist

chradil@upenn.edu

Cassandra serves as a liaison between the Libraries’ Center for Research Data & Digital and the Price Lab. She specializes in managing and supporting digital projects across a range of media. Her interests include archival information systems, decolonial mapping, queer interfaces, e-textiles, and feminist data visualization.

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Andy Janco

Digital Scholarship Programmer

apjanco@upenn.edu

Andy works with project partners as the server-side programmer and technical lead on data-intensive digital humanities and digital scholarship projects. He creates lightweight web applications, digital humanities tools, and digital projects in collaboration with Penn faculty and students.

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Jajwalya Karajgikar

Applied Data Science Librarian

jajk@upenn.edu

Jaj engages with researchers across the disciplines interested in employing techniques for data storytelling, natural language processing, computational social sciences, data visualization, network analysis, and text mining. She works with campus partners to establish foundational programming in research computing, data literacy, and data ethics.

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Lynda Kellam

Head of Research Data Services

lmkellam@upenn.edu

Lynda designs, develops, and oversees the Libraries’ research support services for Penn community members who work with data at any point in the research lifecycle. She works with the RDDS team and subject librarians to develop programming, educational opportunities, and more.

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Ben Liebersohn

Geospatial and Mapping Fellow

benlieb@upenn.edu

Ben supports faculty and students of all backgrounds with integrating spatial analysis into learning and research. He enjoys enabling others to form new insights into communities and environments through the use of accessible GIS technology, and is particularly interested in enabling research for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Ben Liebersohn

Girmaye Misgna

Mapping & Geospatial Data Librarian

gmisgna@upenn.edu

Girmaye provides research consultation and training services to faculty, staff, and students who are engaging with spatial methods, bringing deep technical expertise in both GIS and Mapping application development to that work. He enjoys the daily interaction with the campus community across all disciplines and the everyday new learning experience associated with it.

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Lauren Phegley

Research Data Engineer

lphegley@upenn.edu

Lauren supports and collaborates with research teams, faculty, and students across the subject area spectrum regarding data management, data analysis, data literacy, data sharing, research workflows, and compliance with publisher and funder mandates. Her goal is to assist researchers with managing the research process so they can conduct efficient, effective, and ethical research.

Lauren Phegley
University of Pennsylvania
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