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	Lluís Baixauli-Olmos Assistant Professor, Classical and Modern Languages Lluís Baixauli-Olmos started working at the Classical and Modern Languages Department at UofL in 2013 as an Assistant Professor in Translation & Interpreting (Spanish). Before that he taught Catalan and Spanish at Jamia Millia Islamia University and Instituto Cervantes (New Delhi, India) for three years. And prior to that worked as a graduate research and teaching assistant at Universitat Jaume I (Castelló, Spain) for four years. Professor Baixauli-Olmos received his PhD in 2012 and his doctoral dissertation focused on interpreter ethics and its application to the prison setting. His research interests include: public service interpreting, cognition of interpreters, intercultural communication, professional ethics, sociology of professions, data visualization, qualitative data analysis. He was a 2016-17 CCHS Faculty Fellow. Project: Mapping Interpreting Studies from a bibliometric perspective: time and space evolution of scientific publications; thematic evolution (keywords, abstracts); author networks and influence. Full profle
	Donald J. Biddle GIS Technology Consultant, ULCGIS As a GIS Technology Consultant with the University of Louisville Center for Geographic Information Sciences (ULCGIS), D.J. Biddle helps UofL students, faculty, and staff further their academic and professional goals through the creative application of geospatial technologies. He enjoys the opportunity for new collaborations, and has recently teamed with colleagues from English, History, the Kent School of Social Work, Urban and Public Affairs, and the Stream Institute to enrich diverse teaching and research objectives across disciplinary boundaries. Current projects include interactive web mapping applications for the Louisville First Folio events, historical mapping of the Battle of Perryville, and a teaching collaboration with Dr. Stephen Schneider of English on Campaign Rhetoric (Fall 2016). Full profle
	Ying Kit Chan *Chairperson and Professor of the Department of Fine Arts* Prof. Chan is a multi-media artist who has been producing artwork with the computer since the early 80's. His current projects include contemporary art, media, theory and practice. He began offering courses on Web Design in 1995, and is the creator of the Hite Art Review online journal (HiteArtReview.org). Full profile
	Rebecca Devlin Assistant Professor (Term) of History Rebecca A. Devlin’s research focuses on the social, economic, political and cultural transformations that coincided with collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the expansion of Christianity and the emergence of medieval society. In particular, she uses textual and archaeological sources to examine the increasing influence of bishops of the Iberian Peninsula in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Full profile
	Catherine Fosl *Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Director of the UofL Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research* The A&S Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research has several student or faculty-authored oral history projects online or in progress. A more ambitious digital public history exhibit will launch in Spring 2016, entitled "Black Freedom, White Allies Red Scare: Louisville, 1954." This site is an adaptation of an exhibit in and in partnership with Louisville Free Public Library in the fall of 2014, co-curated by Catherine Fosl and LFPL's Paul Burns. The exhibit reflects on a 1954 act of housing desegregation that wreaked racial violence, a local anticommunist "red scare," and a highly sensationalized sedition trial. This site is the first installment of louisvillecivilrightshistory.org -- which we hope to build into a larger citywide civil rights history project that could feature the work of other A&S scholars such as Lara Kelland, Stephen Schneider, and others. Full profile
	Rachel Howard Digital Initiatives Librarian Rachel Howard, Digital Initiatives Librarian within Archives and Special Collections, coordinates the digitization, digital presentation, and digital preservation of archival collections and other library resources as well as open access to University of Louisville scholarship. See the University Libraries’ website for examples of projects and partnerships. Full profile
	Frances McDonad Assistant professor, English Frances McDonald works on critical theory and twentieth-century American literature and film. Her work has appeared in American Literature and The Atlantic, among other venues. She is the co-editor of thresholds, an experimental digital zine for creative criticism that launched in July 2017 with a pilot issue featuring fresh work by Lauren Berlant, Pinar Yoldas, Mark Amerika, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau Duplesses, Dominic Pettman, amongst others. Full profile
	Shira Rabin Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology Together with Susanna Remold, also from the Department of Biology, Dr. Shira Rabin has designed and implemented a 5-8 day high school microbiology curriculum that is designed for integration into the classroom. Currently, a web page is being developed that will not only describe the project, but will also serve as a portal through which citizen science can be conducted. Full profile
	Stephen Schneider Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English Stephen Schneider's research centers on the relationship between rhetorical theory, social movements and popular education. More recently, he has been exploring the contributions that mapping platforms might make to analysis and representation of “deep maps” associated with social movement activity. Full profile
	Mary P. Sheridan Professor in A&S English Mary P. Sheridan teaches and researches questions at the intersection of digital media, community literacy, and gender studies. She has published extensively on related topics, and recently founded the Digital Media Academy for rising 6^th grade girls from Jefferson County Public Schools. Full profile
	Margath (Maggie) Walker Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Geosciences Prof. Walker's work is primarily focused on borders, securitization, economic restructuring, geopolitics, and identity in Latin America. She also has interest in qualitative methods and critical mapping. Prof. Walker's has conducted extensive research on the US-Mexico border and the Mexico-Guatemala border. Additionally, her work utilizes critical GIS methods and data visualization tools to address complex socio-spatial processes in various settings. For example, she has explored how critical GIS methods provide new insights into the lives and experiences of public housing residents in the aftermath of a HOPE VI revitalization project in Louisville, KY. Prof. Walker is currently working on a book manuscript about the social philosopher Herbert Marcuse. In it, she develops the spatial sensibility of his distinctive approach through an engagement with an array of contemporary issues including securitization, the logics of technology, geopolitics and human liberation. Full profile