I am a research data librarian at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Before coming to Nebraska, I was a data librarian at Michigan State University Library. While at MSU, I was affiliated faculty of the Animal Studies Graduate Specialization (a role I began in 2011), the Center for Gender in Global Context, and DH@MSU. I came to MSU after two years as a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Los Angeles, in the Library. I work on data curation and data management projects, researching data management and curation issues for academic libraries and researchers.
I also served as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Informatics at University of California, Irvine. The projects I worked on were collaborative and distributed, and I was able to continue living in Detroit, Michigan while working on knowledge infrastructure and data projects. I was affiliated with the Animal Studies Graduate Specialization and the Center for the Study of Standards in Society, both of which are at Michigan State University. I did time as an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University.
I earned a PhD in History of Consciousness at University of California, Santa Cruz. My dissertation supervisor was Donna Haraway, and my dissertation, Technobibliocapital: Knowledge, Practice, and Play in Library Worlds, brought critical theory and feminist science and technology studies to bear on epistemology, gendered labor, technological discourses, and categorization in library science.
I grew up on a ranch in Arizona, and in a family of avid and curious readers. I am at least a little bit interested in everything, and very interested in a large handful of things. I have been able to attend to these varied matters through my multi- and interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological training. Broadly, I am concerned with human-animal interactions; gendered labor and the labor of care; data, categories, and classification systems, and the related area of information systems; reproductive and statistical technologies used in livestock breeding and human family making; biologies and technologies of all kinds. I am especially curious about the places these things overlap.
Sometimes I have free time. In that free time, I like to hike, garden, play ukulele, putter around with my vintage Vespa and Rambler (both of which I maintain myself), or work on a DIY project.