BIO & RESEARCH INTERESTs

I am an Associate Professor and Head of the Research & Learning Services Department in the Oklahoma State University Libraries. I have a Master of Science in Information Studies from the University of Texas, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Texas State University. I have worked in public and academic libraries since 2008 in a variety of capacities. I serve as the library liaison to History, Political Science, American Indian Studies, and Africana Studies--contact me for assistance finding information and conducting research in those fields. I am interested in Research Information Management Systems, scholarly publishing, open/public access to scholarship, copyright, research data curation & access, programming pedagogy, library instruction, bibliometric analysis, and many other related topics. I routinely provide workshops on a number of technical tools, including data wrangling & visualization in R, LaTeX and Markdown, Git & GitHub, OpenRefine, REST APIs, SQL, tidy data, regex, and others.

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS

  • Associate Professor
    Oklahoma State University, Library, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States1 Jul 2024 - present

MEDIA

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Scholarly Services Librarian
    Oklahoma State University, Library, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United StatesAug 2018 - present
  • Assistant Professor
    Oklahoma State University, Library, Stillwater, OK1 Aug 2018 - 30 Jun 2024
  • Scholarly Communications Librarian
    University of Houston - Clear Lake, Alfred R. Neumann Library, Houston, Texas, United States1 Aug 2014 - 1 Aug 2018
  • Reference Assistant / Librarian
    The University of Texas at Arlington, UT Arlington Libraries, Arlington, Texas, United States1 Aug 2011 - 1 Aug 2014

DEGREES

  • Master of Science, Information Studies
    The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States1 Jan 2011
  • Bachelor of Arts, History
    Texas State University, United States, San Marcos, Texas2006

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Certified Instructor
    The Carpentries29 Sep 2019 - present
    The Carpentries workshops are taught by trained, peer, volunteer instructors. All of our Instructors complete an Instructor Training program, which teaches instructional pedagogy as well as the practicalities of teaching a Carpentries workshop.

FACULTY/STAFF OR STUDENT

  • Faculty/Staff

CAMPUS

  • Oklahoma State University - Stillwater

AVAILABILITY

  • Career advice
  • Collaborative projects
  • Media inquiries
  • Speaking engagements
  • Teaching opportunities

LANGUAGE

  • English

DEPARTMENT

  • Library

FIELDS OF RESEARCH