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Dartmouth College, “Visualizing Oral Histories: New Data Annotation and Data Visualization Tools for the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS).” September 2023 – August 2025. Co-directed initiative to in corporate integrate the Dartmouth Digital History Initiative into OHMS, funded by a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (Level III) from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Louisiana State University Libraries, T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, February 2021—July 2023.

Clemson University Libraries, November 15-16, 2022.

Columbia University, the Columbia Center for Oral History Research and the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics, I See My Light Shining: Oral Histories of our Elders, 2022.

Istorima Oral History & Archive Project (Greece), July-September 2021.

Prairies to Woodlands Indigenous Language Revitalization Circle, Manitoba, Canada, June 12, 2021. Advise Métis community on Southern Michif language revitalization initiative. 

Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY, July–August 2018. Advised on digital access and initiative.

Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Hollywood, CA, July–December 2015. Advise on a collaborative oral history/archives documentation and preservation initiative.

University of Florida, Samuel Proctor Oral History Center, Gainesville, FL, April 21–23, 2015.

StoryCorps, Brooklyn, NY, October 22, 2014. Invited by StoryCorps to consult on a team regarding their initiative to provide online access to their oral history collections. 

Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY, October 2013–December 2013. Invited to evaluate the archives component of Columbia University’s Center for Oral History.

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, Washington DC, October 2013. Served on a team to advise the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art on their oral history initiatives.

Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, January 2013–present. Invited to serve on a team to assist in the drafting of a digital preservation plan for CHF.

Matrix Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Michigan State University, Project Manager, “Oral History in the Digital Age,” East Lansing, MI, January 1, 2010–July 31, 2012. Served as Project Manager for two-year IMLS grant project to establish and publish best practices for collecting, curating, and disseminating oral histories in the digital age. Partners include the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center, the American Folklife Society, the Oral History Association, as well as the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. 

California State University—Fullerton, Center for Oral and Public History, Fullerton, CA, May 9–10, 2011. Consulted on digitization and digital preservation of their oral history collections.

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, July–October 2009. Invited to consult for the Paul “Bear” Bryant Museum on preservation for their video and film holdings from their athletics archival holdings, specifically game films from the football program from 1931–2008.

University of Colorado–Boulder, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, January 2009. Contracted by the University of Colorado–Boulder to conduct an audio and physical assessment of the Burke Collection, an analog sound collection containing 3500 hours of 1920s–1950s big band music. The assessment was performed in anticipation of University of Colorado’s American Music Research Center purchasing the Burke Collection. 

University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries, Madison, WI, July 2008–August 2008. Evaluated audio and video preservation needs of the oral history program and special collections.

Navajo Nation/Dine College, Window Rock, AZ, August 2007–February 2008. Hired to evaluate an audio collection of 3500 interviews and teach the Navajo how to physically assess the collection. Consulted on obtaining major digitization grants.