Alice McGrath
Senior Digital Scholarship Specialist
Alice McGrath supports digital scholarship in many forms, including pedagogy, project management, and training around technologies for digital research and publication. She is available to consult on any topic related to digital scholarship: feel free to email her to set up an appointment. Alice earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in eighteenth-century British literature and gender and sexuality studies. Before coming to Bryn Mawr in 2019, she was the Postdoctoral Fellow for Accessibility at Penn Libraries, where she helped develop the Accessibility Mapping Project and served as research coordinator for the Early Novels Database. Her professional interests include print and digital archives, the materiality of digital texts, feminist and queer studies, experimental fiction, text mining, metadata, digital accessibility, and disability studies.
Make a consultation appointment with Alice.
Cameron Boucher
Educational & Scholarly Technology Assistant
As an Educational & Scholarly Technology Assistant, Cameron helps to support digital scholarship by collaborating on projects and leading workshops and trainings on web design and front-end development. She is particularly interested in minimal computing, sustainability, and digital preservation. Cameron graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2023, majored in Russian and History, and was a 2022 Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow. She also has a background in communications, film studies, and video editing.
Tessa Eisen
Educational & Scholarly Technology Assistant
Tessa loves to learn and apply digital tools to traditional forms of scholarship and has a particular interest in GIS and mapping within humanities and social science research. As an Educational and Scholarly Technology Assistant, Tessa looks forward to using her technical knowledge to collaborate on thought-provoking and creative digital scholarship projects. She graduated from Bryn Mawr in 2023 as an Anthropology major with a Data Science minor and went on to earn a Master’s in Digital Humanities at the University of Groningen.
Jeff Hopkins
Educational Technology Specialist
Sean Keenan
Educational Technology Specialist
Students
Stella Fritzell – Digital Scholarship Graduate Assistant
Stella is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Greek, Latin & Classical Studies under the supervision of Radcliffe Edmonds. She received her M.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 2019 and her B.A. in Classical Studies and Music from Carlton College in 2015. Her research interests broadly include: mythology, religion, and performance, and she is currently working on a digital project that explores the intersections of mythical story and geographic place. Stella views digital scholarship as an essential tool for establishing both new means of accessing traditional fields of scholarship and new methodologies of teaching and learning in the classroom.
Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows 2024
Isbah Ameer
Isbah is a Computer Science major at Bryn Mawr College. Her past work has focused on data analytics, visualizations and science education. Currently, she is working on front end development, web–mapping and GIS as part of DSSF. Isbah’s interests include using technology to create tools that enhance science communication, making learning more accessible.
Emma Dermansky
Emma worked on the Germantown-Y project as a Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow. She’s interested in the intersection between history and technology. Her specialties include HTML, CSS, SASS, Bootstrap, and Jekyll. In her free time, she enjoys books and spirographs.
Nada Elshafey
Nada is pursuing a double major in Growth and Structure of Cities with an architectural design concentration and Fine Arts with a sculpture concentration. For this project, she has created an interactive map for the Germantown YWCA floor plans, allowing people to easily navigate the interior and learn about the various rooms within the building. Passionate about design and architecture, Nada was pleased that being a DSSF gave her the opportunity to utilize design methods to better visualize and preserve historical buildings.
Anna Nguyen
Anna Nguyen is a Bryn Mawr student majoring in computer science and intending to minor in data science. Her summer fellowship role consisted of creating metadata, managing the archive of the project, and assisting in developing the Germantown YWCA website. On her free time, she likes to shop and hang out with her friends.
Fiona Shen
Fiona is a prospective Psychology/Neuroscience and Computer Science major. She is interested in helping others by using the digital and psychology skills she’s continuously learning. In the project, she worked on building a timeline in TimelineJS to showcase potential content of the social, political, and institutional events that occurred in the Germantown YWCA Building/Organization. Additionally, she has worked on the design and framework of the website.