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Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Master of Science in Information Science, August 2013
Oglethorpe University, Bachelor of Arts in English with a Minor in Art History, May 2009
Professional Experience
Associate Head of Digital Collections Discovery
Harvard Library, May 2023–present
Head of Digital Scholarship
Tufts University, January 2020–April 2023
Team Lead for Digital Scholarship
Tufts University, November 2018–December 2019
Digital Scholarship Librarian & History Liaison
Boston College, January 2017–October 2018
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Wake Forest University, August 2013–December 2016
Publications & Presentations
Articles & Book Chapters
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet, and Alix Keener. “Sharing Authority in Collaborative Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Library Workers’ Perspectives.” Forthcoming in What We Teach When We Teach DH: Digital Humanities in the Classroom, edited by Brian Croxall and Diane Jakacki. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet, and Taryn Cooksey. “Archive of Hate: Ethics of Care in the Preservation of Ugly Histories.” Lady Science, January 10, 2019.
Burress, Theresa, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Project Management for Digital Projects with Collaborators Beyond the Library.” College & Undergraduate Libraries 24, no. 2–4 (November 2017): 1–22. doi: 10.1080/10691316.017.1336954
Open Educational Resources
Walker, Paige (Content Editor), Adam Jazairi (Content Editor), and Chelcie Rowell (Content Editor). Digital Literacy Against Digital Violence: A Handbook for Library Workers. 2022.
Pappas, Erin (Content Editor), Liz Rodrigues (Content Editor), Chelcie Juliet Rowell (Technical Editor), and Yasmeen Shorish (Technical Editor). #DLFteach Toolkit: Lesson Plans for Digital Library Instruction. Digital Library Federation, 2019.
Workshops
Anderson, Clifford, David J. Birnbaum, Elli Bleeker, Hugh Cayless, Ronald Haentjens Dekker, Gabi Keane, Leif-Jöran Olsson, and Chelcie Rowell. “Advanced Digital Editing: Modeling the Text and Making the Edition.” Invited core faculty member specializing in project management at the two-week National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2022.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet, Meg McMahon, Brooke Gilmore, Lachrista Greco, Paige Walker, and Adam Jazairi. “Community Building with the ‘Digital Literacy Against Digital Violence’ Handbook.” Workshop presented at the Digital Library Federation Forum, Baltimore, Florida, 2022.
Bettinger, Eliza, Karly Wildenhaus, Jen Ferguson, Chelcie Juliet Rowell, and Paige Walker. “CryptoParty: Strengthen Your Digital Privacy Toolkit.” Workshop presented at the Digital Library Federation Forum, Tampa, Florida, 2019.
Gormly, Brianna, Nicholas Homenda, Chelcie Juliet Rowell, and Maura Seale. “The Pedagogy of Digital Publishing.” Workshop presented at the Digital Library Federation Forum, Tampa, Florida, 2019.
Guillette, Jeremy, Alix Keener, Chelcie Juliet Rowell, and Hugh Truslow. “Deconstructing Digital Scholarship Consultations in the Library.” Invited facilitator for workshop presented at Harvard Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2018.
Johnson, Andrew, Alix Keener, Brianna Marshall, Chelcie Juliet Rowell, and Joel B. Thornton. “Deconstructing Digital Scholarship Consultations in the Library.” Preconference workshop presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2018.
Dickson, Eleanor, Kate Dohe, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Elizabeth Joan Kelly, Chelcie Juliet Rowell, and Angie White. “Constructing Digital Praxis: Pedagogy for Digital Collections.” Workshop presented at the Digital Library Federation Forum, Pittsburgh, PA, 2017.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Thematic Digital Collections.” Workshop presented at the Boston College Digital Scholarship Incubator, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2017.
Melton, Sarah, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Archives and Exhibitions with Omeka.” Workshop presented at the Association of Research Libraries Digital Scholarship Institute, Dover, MA, 2017.
Dickson, Eleanor, Kate Dohe, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Elizabeth Joan Kelly, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Digital Library Pedagogy Incubator: A Workshop to Design Instruction with Digital Collections.” Workshop presented at the Digital Library Federation Forum, Milwaukee, WI, 2016.
Christian-Lamb, Caitlin, Chelcie Juliet Rowell, and Stewart Varner. “Introduction to Digital Humanities for Archivists and Librarians.” Preconference workshop presented at the Society of North Carolina Archivists Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, 2016.
Berger, Courtney, Rebecca Kennison, John D. Martin, Sylvia Miller, David Phillips, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Publishing Makerspace: Workshop for Digital and Multimodal Research Projects.” Workshop presented at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2015.
Dolan, Lindsay, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Closing the Content-Rhetoric Gap: Working with Advanced Students on Underdeveloped Writing Skills.” Workshop presented at the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Baltimore, MD, 2010.
Presentations
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet, Meg McMahon, Brooke Gilmore, Lachrista Greco, Paige Walker, and Adam Jazairi. “Digital Literacy, Digital Privacy, and Digital Violence Prevention: Findings from the National Forum on the Prevention of Cyber Sexual Abuse.” Panel discussion at the Digital Library Federation Forum, Baltimore, Maryland, 2022.
Exner, Nina, Denice Lewis, Catherine Prince, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Identifying and Applying for STEM Grants: Tips from the Experts.” Invited panelist for panel presentation organized by STEM-LINC (STEM Librarianship in North Carolina) at the North Carolina Library Association’s 64th Biennial Conference, 2021.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet, and Hannah Scates Kettler. “Cultivating Accountability by Eliciting Upward Feedback.” Panel presentation at the Conference on Academic Library Management (CALM), 2021.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Another Tufts Is Possible.” Invited panelist for webinar presented by the Tufts Action Group, 2020.
Duhaime, Doug, Chelcie Juliet Rowell, and Wendy Kurtz. “How Your Library Can Advance Digital Humanities Across Campus.” Invited panelist for webinar presented by Gale & Library Journal, 2020.
Chapman, Jacqueline, Stephanie Labou, Tammy Lawson, Angela Murillo, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Early to Mid-Career Panel.” Invited panelist for panel discussion at the LEADS (Library Education and Data Science) Forum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2020.
Lach, Pamela, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Building a Digital Humanities Network.” Invited panelist and facilitator for presentation and discussion given at the New England Humanities Consortium (NEHC) Digital Humanities Retreat, Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire, 2019.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Cultivating a Digital Library Pedagogy Community of Practice.” Poster presented at the Boston-Area Digital Scholarship Symposium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Hybrid Positions, or 2-for-1 Digital Humanities Labor.” Short paper presented at Digital Humanities, Mexico City, Mexico, 2018.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “The Role of the Subject Librarian in Spatial Humanities.” Invited panelist for talk given at the Map & Geospatial Information Round Table (MAGIRT) President’s Program, American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2018.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Building Capacity for Digital Scholarship by Cultivating Collaborators.” Lightning talk presented at the Association for Research Libraries and Coalition for Networked Information Fall Forum: Libraries and the Research Enterprise, Washington, District of Columbia, 2017.
Keener, Alix, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Tracing Contours of Collaborative Digital Pedagogy.” Snapshot presented at the Digital Library Federation Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2016.
Christian-Lamb, Caitlin, Amy Ciesielski, Skip Elsheimer, Chelcie Juliet Rowell, and Steven Villereal. “Reel History: Home Movie Days Hosted by Cultural Heritage Institutions.” Talk presented at the Society of North Carolina Archivists Annual Conference, Greenville, North Carolina, 2015
Cox, Richard, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Building Pyramids: Creating Partnerships in Digital Scholarship.” Talk presented at the North Carolina Library Association 61st Biennial Conference, Greensboro, North Carolina, 2015.
Gilbertson, Kevin, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Build.ZSR: Doing Digital Humanities by Facilitating Digital Humanities.” Talk presented at the Collective, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2015.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Building Library Exhibits with BiblioBoard Creator.” Talk presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, 2015.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Build.ZSR: Fostering and Sustaining Scholarly Digital Projects at Wake Forest.” Talk presented at Electronic Resources & Libraries, Austin, Texas, 2015.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “A Pond Feeding a Lake Feeding an Ocean: Wake Forest University as a Contributing Institution to the Digital Public Library of America.” Talk presented at the Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, 2014.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “DSpace for Digital Special Collections: The Wake Forest Experience.” Talk presented at the Society of North Carolina Archivists Annual Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2014.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Controlled Vocabulary Status and Potential in Data Repositories.” Talk presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 2013.
Reynolds, Emily, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Digital Preservation Policy Development at the Library of Congress.” Poster presented at Digital Preservation, Washington, District of Columbia, 2012.
Editorial & Peer Review Contributions
Member, Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) Library Publishing Curriculum Editorial Board, July 2020–present
Editor, ALCTS News (online newsletter for the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, or ALCTS), July 2017–June 2020
Field Reviewer, 2018 Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program and Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, February 2018
Panel Reviewer, 2018 IMLS National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program and Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, November 2017
Member, Library Resources & Technical Services Editorial Board, July 2015–June 2017
Field Reviewer, 2015 IMLS Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries Program, April 2015
Proceedings & Reports
Krewer, Drew, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Preservation Metadata for Complex Digital Objects.” Technical Services Quarterly 33, no. 2 (2016): 179–183. doi: 10.1080/07317131.2016.1135003.
Zhang, Yue, Adrian Ogletree, Jane Greenberg, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Controlled Vocabularies for Scientific Data: Users and Desired Functionalities.” In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 52:1–8. St. Louis, MO: Association for Information Science and Technology, 2016. doi: 10.1002/pra2.2015.145052010054.
Miller, Sylvia, David Phillips, Courtney Berger, Marjorie Fowler, Rebecca Kennison, John Martin, John McLeod, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Publishing Makerspace: A New Approach to Scholarly Publishing.” In Where Do We Go From Here? Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2015, 593–599. Charleston, SC: Purdue Libraries, 2015. doi: 10.5703/1288284316324.
Potvin, Sarah, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Preservation Metadata for Digital Forensics.” Technical Services Quarterly 32, no. 3 (2015): 320–325. doi: 10.1080/07317131.2015.1031606.
Potvin, Sarah, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Involving Users in Preservation Metadata.” Technical Services Quarterly 31, no. 3 (2014): 264–268. doi: 10.1080/07317131.2014.908593.
Reviews
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Review of ‘Libraries that Learn: Keys to Managing Organizational Knowledge.” Technical Services Quarterly 37, no. 1 (2020): 97–98. doi: 10.1080/07317131.2019.1691784.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Review of ‘Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership.” Technical Services Quarterly 35, no. 4 (2018): 417–418. doi: 10.1080/07317131.2018.1509466.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Review of ‘U.K. Parliamentary Papers: House of Commons.’” ccAdvisor (2017). doi: 10.5260/CCA.199443.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Review of ‘Being Evidence Based in Library and Information Practice.’” Technical Services Quarterly 35, no. 1 (2017): 125–126. doi: 10.1080/07317131.2017.1385307.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Review of ‘Linked Data for Cultural Heritage.’” Technical Services Quarterly 34, no. 3 (2017): 341–342. doi: 10.1080/07317131.2017.1321426.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Review of ‘Metadata Standards and Web Services in Libraries, Archives, and Museums: An Active Learning Resource.’” Technical Services Quarterly 33, no. 3 (2016): 347–349. doi: 10.1080/07317131.2016.1169861.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Review of ‘Project Management for Information Professionals.’” Library Resources & Technical Services 60, no. 4 (2016): 280–281. doi: 10.5860/lrts.60n4.280.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Review of ‘Building and Managing E-Book Collections: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians.’” Library Resources & Technical Services 57, no. 3 (2013): 180–181. doi: 10.5860/lrts.57n3.180.
Writing on the Web
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Authenticity Amidst Change: The Preservation and Access Framework for Digital Art Objects.” The Signal: Digital Preservation (blog), December 21, 2015.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “‘A Natural Symbiosis’: An Interview with Ashley Sanders.” dh+lib (blog), December 2, 2015.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research: An Interview with Richard Ball and Norm Medeiros.” The Signal: Digital Preservation (blog), September 12, 2014.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “A Pond Feeding a Lake Feeding an Ocean: Wake Forest University’s Perspective as a Contributing Institution to the DPLA.” Digital Public Library of America (blog), May 29, 2014.
Master’s Paper
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Controlled Vocabulary Use by Data Repositories: Determining Status and Potential for Promoting Interoperability.” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013.
Service
Service to the Profession
Secretary, Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Digital Scholarship Section, July 2018–June 2020
Member, Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures Steering Committee, July 2019–June 2020
Member, Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures Communications Working Group, July 2019–June 2020
Co-Chair, Digital Library Federation (DLF) Digital Library Pedagogy Working Group, January 2018–December 2019
Member-at-Large, ACRL Digital Scholarship Section, July 2017–June 2018
Co-Chair, DLF Liberal Arts College Preconference Planning Committee, February–November 2016
Member, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) President’s Program Committee, July 2015–June 2016
Co-Chair, ALCTS Preservation & Reformatting Section (PARS) Preservation Metadata Interest Group, July 2013–June 2015
Service to Tufts University and Tisch Library
Chair, Search Committee for Digital Scholarship Librarian and Research Data Librarian, November 2022–February 2023
Co-Chair, Tisch Library Cultural Competency Development Team, September 2021–April 2023
Member, Tufts Action Group (TAG) Steering Committee, August 2020–April 2023
Liberal Arts Pre-Major Advisor, School of Arts & Sciences, August 2020–April 2023
Member, Tisch Library COVID-19 Operations Group, August 2020–April 2023
Member, Tisch Library Management Council, June 2019–April 2023
Intercultural Conversation Partner, Tufts University International Center, September 2021–April 2023
Facilitator, Unpacking Whiteness Dialogue Group, August 2020–April 2023
Member, Tufts Libraries Data Management Team, November 2018–April 2023
Member, Tisch Library Cultural Competency Development Team, September 2019–September 2021
Member, Search Committee for Research & Instruction Librarian at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, February–May 2020
Member, Tisch Library Strategic Planning Steering Committee, May–October 2019
Service to Oglethorpe University
Vice President of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Alumni Board, April 2021–present
Vice President of Awards, Alumni Board, April 2019–March 2021
Vice President of Communications, Alumni Board, April 2018–March 2019
Member, Alumni Board, April 2016–March 2018
Service to Community
Tutor, English as a Second Language Program, English at Large, Woburn, Massachusetts, March 2022–June 2023
Instructor, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Intermediate Conversation Classes, Rian Immigrant Center, Boston, Massachusetts, June–July 2018
Reader, Read Aloud Program, Boston Partners in Education, September 2017–May 2018
Instructor, Community Workshop Series (a partnership in digital literacy instruction between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information & Library Science and local public libraries), Carrboro Cybrary, Carrboro, North Carolina, September 2011–May 2013
Tutor, Adult Literacy Program and English as a Second Language Program, Center for Literacy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 2009–May 2011
Service to Boston College and O’Neill Library
Web Strategy Committee, March 2017–present
Search Committee for Research Librarian & Bibliographer for the Theology and Ministry Library, January–May 2018
Search Committee for Research, Instruction, & Digital Services Librarian for the John J. Burns Library, May–June 2017
Service to Wake Forest University and Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Advisory Committee for the Interdisciplinary Journalism Minor, August–December 2016
Search Committee for Director of Humanities Institute, March–December 2016
Task Force on Accessibility, October–December 2016
User Experience Committee, June–December 2016
Communication Committee, July 2015–December 2016
Search Committee for Developer for Digital Scholarship, March–May 2016
Governance Committee of the Librarians’ Assembly, July 2014–June 2016
Search Committee for Dean of Z. Smith Reynolds Library, January–June 2015
Search Committee for Collections Archivist, July–November 2014
Service to UNC School of Information & Library Science
President, Information & Library Science Student Association (ILSSA), January–December 2012
Continuing Education
Facilitative Leadership for Social Change, Interaction Institute for Social Change, February–March 2021
Skills for Trauma Inclusive Leadership, Trinity Boston Connects, November 2020
Instructor Training for the Carpentries (Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry), New England Software Carpentry Library Consortium, February 2020
Inclusive Manager’s Toolkit, DeEtta Jones and Associates, February–April 2020
Feminist Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), University of Victoria, June 2019
Presenting Data and Information, Edward Tufte, April 2019
Accessibile Digital Humanities, DHSI, University of Victoria, June 2018
Digital Humanities Pedagogy, DHSI, University of Victoria, June 2017
Project Management, DHSI, University of Victoria, June 2016
Digital Preservation Management Workshop, Emory University, March 2016
Project Development, Humanities Intensive Learning & Teaching, University of Maryland, August 2014
Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute, Duke University, November 2014
Institute for Research Design in Librarianship, Loyola Marymount University, June 2014
Data Curation for Digital Humanists, Digital Humanities Winter Institute, University of Maryland, January 2013
Honors & Awards
2016 American Library Association Emerging Leader
Sponsored by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services
Outstanding Service to the School Award
UNC School of Information & Library Science, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Beta Phi Mu (Epsilon Chapter)
UNC School of Information & Library Science, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Grants & Funding
Walker, Paige, Chelcie Juliet Rowell, Emily Singley, and Adam Jazairi. “National Forum on the Prevention of Cyber Sexual Abuse” (LG-246340-OLS-20). Institute of Museum and Library Services, Washington, District of Columbia. National Leadership Grants for Libraries. Amount Awarded: $148,545. August 2020–July 2022.
Rowell, Chelcie Juliet. “Tracing Contours of Collaborative Digital Scholarship Pedagogy.” Wake Forest University Provost’s Office, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Provost’s Grant for Academic Excellence. Amount Awarded: $1,720. September–December 2016.
O’Connell, Monique, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “3D Modeling for the Humanities: Visualizing ‘The Floating City.’” Wake Forest University Information Systems, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Summer Technology Exploration (STEP) Grants for Enhancing Teaching, Scholarly, and Creative Work. Amount Awarded: $3,500. June 2016–August 2016.