About Our Team
Tyrica Terry Kapral is the Humanities Data Librarian in the Digital Scholarship Services unit in the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh. In this role, she supports faculty and students in creating, accessing, transforming, analyzing, visualizing, and sharing data and digital content in support of research and learning in the humanities.
Project Team Role: Project Lead, Data Wrangler and Curator, Coder
Aaron Brenner is the Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship and Creation in the University Library System (ULS) at the University of Pittsburgh. He is responsible for developing, coordinating, and representing the library's expertise in advanced digital technologies, methods, and services in support of research and scholarship. These include data acquisition and analysis, research data management, geographic information systems, digitization and metadata services, support for open access publishing, copyright guidance, electronic journal publishing, digital repository services, the creation and use of digital research collections, scholarly and digital making, and multimedia technologies. His research interests include how people learn and work together in groups (drawing on learning theory, sociology, and related concepts in science and technology studies); library participation in civic open data ecosystems and community-partnered research; programs supporting student research (especially for undergraduates), and the design and use of learning spaces (especially in libraries).
Project Team Role: Administrative Librarian, Coder
Matthew J. Lavin is an Assistant Professor of Humanities Analytics in the Data Analytics Program at Denison University. Lavin's scholarship focuses on the intersection of digital humanities, book history, and U.S. literature. In 2015, he established humanitiesdata.com as a curated list of publicly available datasets and corpora of potential interest to computational humanities teachers and scholars. In 2017, Lavin and fellow primary investigators Matt Burton (University of Pittsburgh), Jessica Otis (CMU), and Scott Weingart (CMU) received an 18-month Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for Digits: a Platform to Facilitate the Production of Digital Scholarship. His publications have appeared in Auto|Biography Studies, Cather Studies, CA: The Journal of Cultural Analytics, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, The Programming Historian, and Studies in the Novel.
Project Team Role: Disciplinary Scholar, Coder
Past Members
Gesina A. Phillips
Project Team Role: Teaching and Learning Coordinator