Panelists
NCIS is proud to present the distinguished panelists of our 2015 Conference
Traditions and Transitions:
Independent Scholars and the Digital Landscape
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Ruth Barnes (DPhil, Oxford University) is the inaugural Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, and a member of the Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies. She was previously textile curator at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, where she organized exhibitions on Asian and Islamic textiles, early Indian Ocean trade, and pilgrimage. Her publications include The Ikat Textiles of Lamalera and Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Samantha J. Boardman (PhD, Rutgers University-Newark) is Research Fellow and Project Coordinator for the Newark Oral History Project. Through the Newest Americans Initiative at the Center for Migration and the Global City she developed digital humanities projects and undergraduate curricula. In addition, she directed the creation of multimedia web content based on digitized textual, visual and audio archival material.
Ben J. Bogardus (MA, University of Virginia; MS, Syracuse University) is assistant professor of journalism, Quinnipiac University. He specializes in teaching media and broadcast news writing, TV reporting, and TV newscast producing. Before entering academia, he was the 5pm newscast producer at ABC's Washington, DC affiliate. While at ABC, he won outstanding honors including an Emmy, a regional Edward R. Murrow award, and two Associated Press awards for "Best Newscast."
Isabelle Flemming (MA, University of Florida; MLS, University of Illinois) is a retired reference librarian and computer specialist. She was the business reference librarian at Mount Prospect Public Library, Illinois. Her research interests are in the history of culture and ideas and how humans organize and process information. She has published several encyclopedia articles and a chapter for a library science textbook as well as presented papers at Popular Culture Association conferences. She is currently a Board Member of NCIS.
Robert Flemming (PhD, Northwestern University) is a mathematician who has held positions in academia, government and industry. In addition to modeling and problem solving, his work has included an analytical component centered on the understanding of nascent technologies and their potential impact on individuals and organizations.
Nancy Florio (MLS, Southern Connecticut State University) has extensive experience creating digital archives using proprietary and open source software. She is Director of the Gier Library at Berkshire School in Sheffield, MA and an adjunct in the Department of Information & Library Science at Southern Connecticut State University. She is completing work on her Instructional Technology Design Certificate at University of Massachusetts in Boston. Her projects include the Connecticut Veteran's History Project, the 9/11 Living Memorial, and VOICES, a project of the September 11th organization. She is an advocate of free and open access to information and the Creative Commons.
Will Hochman (PhD, New York University) has published widely, including media-focused publications Hypertext 101” Inside Higher Education, 2005 and Pecan Grove Press, 2006; Isn’t Media Pedagogy the Real Magic of The Invention of Hugo Cabret?” in Computers and Composition, 2008; and “From Desktop to Laptop: Creating Transitions to Wireless Learning in Writing Classrooms”in Going Wireless, edited by Amy C. Kimme Hea, Hampton Press, 2009.
Eleanor Hong has over 15 years of digital media experience and now manages her own consultancy, LE Brands Digital Media, LLC. She is adjunct professor at Quinnipiac University teaching digital communications and social media. Her experience includes optimizing video and content for web, digital traffic growth and leveraging online consumer engagement and competitor analysis. She has worked across enterprise broadcast media sites such as ESPN, ABC News, AOL and The Washington Post.
Robert Kalm (MFA, Western Connecticut State University) is an Emmy award-winning writer and producer. The owner of Headless Media LLC, he specializes in writing and screenwriting, media production, web presence, interactive theory, and online pedagogy. He designed and taught courses in Writing for Interactive Media and Masters Portfolio/Capstone. He was producer-at-large for 5 years for NYC Media, receiving an Emmy for producing Ground Zero: A Ceremony Without Words.
Susan Katz (BA, Brooklyn College; Certificate in Filmmaking, New York University; MS, Quinnipiac University) is an award-winning writer/producer/director and creative lead. She is currently assistant professor, Mass Communications, University of Bridgeport. She has over 25 years' experience serving Fortune 500 corporations, marketing and advertising agencies, and political campaigns with concept development through completion services in digital and traditional media: web, film, video, radio and print.
Trip Kirkpatrick works in the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning as a Senior Instructional Technologist. He currently organizes the Digital Humanities Working Group of the Whitney Humanities Center, partners with faculty to introduce Digital Humanities methods into their courses, and supports efforts to make the Digital Humanities community multilingual and multicultural.
Theresa (Terri) McNichol is president of Ren Associates, a company specializing in creative collaborations, developer of imaginement™, and an award-winning artist. She has been a community college adjunct professor teaching a non-Western art history survey for more than 25 years. A former museum director, her consulting and research highlights design thinking, appreciative intelligence and exploratory writing as key 21C skills fostered in museums. She is Vice President of the Princeton Research Forum.
Holly Rushmeier (PhD, Cornell University) is a professor of computer science at Yale University specializing in computer graphics. Her current research focuses on scanning and modeling of shape and appearance properties, and on applications in the digital humanities and cultural heritage. She has been involved in creating a digital model of Michelangelo's Florence Pietà as well as models of Egyptian cultural artifacts in a joint project between IBM and the Government of Egypt. She is currently engaged in a Mellon-funded project to study medieval manuscripts in collaboration with Yale humanities scholars.
Lloyd Sexton is co-Founder of LE Brands Digital Media and is SEO Director at Everyday Health Inc. He has been involved in digital technology and media for over 15 years. His search experience has spanned industries from travel insurance to live sporting events, and his ability has helped shape lasting strategies for companies such as Travel Insured International and ESPN.
Phillip Simon works at Quinnipiac University as Director of the Interactive Media Master’s Program in the School of Communications. He is an interactive media producer, program designer, and consultant. He uses creative analysis techniques for communicating ideas, collecting information, and presenting data. He spent 22 years at Yale University, finishing his tenure there as a program designer and on-line educational specialist.
Lauren Tilton (BA, University of Virginia) worked in museum education at the National World War II Museum. She is currently at Yale as Co-Director of Photogrammar, a project mapping the 170,000 photographs of the Great Depression and World War II at the Library of Congress -- a digital and public humanities project funded by an NEH Phase II Digital Start-Up Grant. She will be receiving her MA (Yale University) with a concentration in Public Humanities.