Bollinger Fellow in Library Innovation: Katie Rawson |
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October 22, 2013, Volume 60, No. 10 |
The Penn Libraries announced the appointment of Katie Rawson as the Bollinger Fellow in Library Innovation.
Established by Library Board member and University Trustee, Judith Bollinger (WG’81, PAR’14), and her husband, William (PAR’14), the Bollinger Fellow aims to shape innovative library research services and content strategies in support of teaching and learning at Penn.
Dr. Rawson will develop digital projects and assess emerging tools and technologies for humanities research. Working with staff, faculty and students, she will encourage and support open digital scholarship and will edit and curate digital collections at Penn. She will also serve on several internal and external digital humanities committees.
Most recently, Dr. Rawson was a graduate fellow at the Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC) at Emory and the managing editor of the open-access, multimedia journal Southern Spaces.
Dr. Rawson has a PhD from the Interdisciplinary Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts at Emory University. She has an MA in English from the University of Mississippi and a BA in English from the University of South Carolina. Her scholarly interests focus on media, narrative theory and practice and food studies.
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