Fabio Bianchi

Jean W. Simmons

ALA, VLA, AVIC

Rethinking reference services & collections, Online resource evaluation & selection, State online resources committee, State academic librarians' summit committee

Jean Simmons is Reference & Instruction Librarian at Middlebury College

Rafael Alvarado

Wiebke Kuhn

Paula Lackie

IASSIST, ICPSR, CODATA, Educause, NMC, NITLE, Campus Technologies

Outreach to data librarians in developing economies for IASSIST (social science data archives, delivery and support), Educational outreach for professional development for IASSIST members, ICPSR executive council member, Moodle implementation, ...

Paula Lackie is a long time social science data advocate and social science and humanities technologist at Carleton College.

Eriberto P. Lozada Jr.

American Anthropologist Association, Association of Asian Studies, Southern Anthropological Society, AsiaNetwork

Sports and Society, Science and Technology Studies, Religion and Politics in China

Paul Waldau

American Academy of Religion, American Bar Association

Dr. Waldau is Director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, which includes the country's most advanced graduate program in the study of nonhuman animals, policy, and cultural values. Paul has a Doctor of Philosophy degree from University of Oxford. He also has a Juris Doctor degree from UCLA Law School and a Master's Degree from Stanford University in Religious Studies. He is the author and editor of several books—The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals published by Oxford University Press in 2001, and the forthcoming A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics to be published by Columbia University Press. He publishes widely, a recent example of which is the article in the prestigious Encyclopedia of Religion on 'Animals.' Paul teaches ethics courses at the veterinary school, and currently is teaching the 'animal law' course at Harvard Law School. He is also the Co-chair of the Animals and Religion Consultation at the American Academy of Religion, and the founder and president of the Religion and Animals Institute.

Eric Kansa

Society for American Archaeology, American Schools for Oriental Research

I am lead developer of Open Context (www.opencontext.org), a system to publish primary field data from archaeology and related disciplines. Open Context provides comprehensive, open, and free access to field project and museum collection data pooled from many contributors. Open Context uses a folksonomy / community tagging system to enable users to establish meaningful links between items from multiple datasets even if they use very different recording and terminological systems.

Eric C. Kansa is cofounder and Executive Director of the Alexandria Archive Institute and chief developer of "Open Context" (www.opencontext.org/database/browse.php), an online system for sharing primary field data for archaeology and other environmental and social sciences. This follows a position on the faculty of Harvard University, where he served as Lecturer and Undergraduate Tutor for the Department of Anthropology. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a BA in Cultural Anthropology and continued his education at Harvard University beginning in 1995. There, he earned his doctorate in 2001 and has focused his archaeological research on the interactions between ancient states and neighboring societies. His current efforts focus on open dissemination strategies, information architectures for the social sciences, and intellectual property frameworks for online scholarship. These efforts work towards enhancing the research value and creative potential of world cultural heritage. I am currently the volunteer head of the Society for American Archaeology's Digital Data Interest Group.

Nancy Fried Foster

Nancy Fried Foster is Lead Anthropologist for the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries and co-manager of the Libraries' Digital Initiatives Unit. She conducts research on faculty, staff, and students to document work habits and identify needs for web-based products to support research and writing. Before joining the library staff, Nancy conducted research in small indigenous communities in Brazil and Papua New Guinea as well as in educational, commercial, and not-for-profit organizations in the United States and England. She has a Ph.D. in applied anthropology from Columbia University and a diploma in social anthropology from Oxford.

Dustin M. Wax

Dustin M. Wax is an adjunct anthropology instructor at the Community College of Southern Nevada and a contributor at Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology.