Invited Sessions

Virtual Invited Sessions

Jisc: Insights from New CEO Heidi Fraser-Krauss

Tuesday, Mar. 22, 1:00–1:30 pm EST

Heidi Fraser-Krauss, Jisc CEO

Jisc is a not-for-profit membership organisation that provides the UK universities, colleges and skills sectors with a shared digital infrastructure. Fraser-Krauss studied psychology and management studies at the University of Glasgow, and started her career as a researcher studying how communication in the workplace supports innovation.

She has since held a variety of Board level leadership roles in higher education, most recently as executive director of corporate services at the University of Sheffield. In Sheffield she had strategic responsibility for all the core corporate services including IT, HR, Communications and Estates and Facilities. Prior to Sheffield, she spent eight years at the University of York, where, she held a variety of roles including deputy registrar and director of corporate and information services. Over the years her work has covered high-performance computing for research, library and archives, planning and strategic change, and leading the technology change team at the University of St Andrews.

She was a member of UCAS council for eight years, chair of Universities and College Information Systems Association (UCISA), and chair of the Russell Universities Group IT Directors (RUGIT). In 2017 she was named as female CIO of the year by Computing Magazine. She recently became a governor of York College my local FE provider.

American Council of Learned Societies: Commission on Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship

Tuesday, Mar. 22, 4:45–5:15 pm EST

Marisa Parham, Chair of the Commission for Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship and Professor, University of Maryland, College Park

The American Council of Learned Societies’ new commission, Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship, explores and supports the future of digital work in the humanities. The commission, which is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, includes many members of the CNI community. Chair Marisa Parham will share the commission’s vision, goals and plans.  

More information is available at https://www.acls.org/digital-commission-sustaining-diverse-scholarship/

About the Speaker: Marisa Parham is Professor of English and Digital Studies at the University of Maryland, where she serves as director for the African American Digital Humanities initiative (AADHUM), and is the associate director for the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). She also co-directs the Immersive Realities Lab for the Humanities, which is an independent workgroup for digital and experimental humanities (irLhumanities). At Maryland, Parham also holds faculty-affiliation with the departments of African and African American Studies, American Studies, and the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Parham holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and is the author of Haunting and Displacement in African-American Literature and Culture, The African-American Student’s Guide to College, and is co-editor of Theorizing Glissant: Sites and Citations. She has also carried fellowships and residencies at the Huntington Library, The WEB DuBois Center at Harvard University, and the School for Criticism and Theory. From 2001 – 2021 she served as Professor of English, Faculty Diversity and Inclusion officer, and Mellon Mays program advisor at Amherst College, where in 2018 she was awarded the Jeffrey B. Ferguson Teaching award. She is also a former director (2013-2017) of Five College Digital Humanities, serving Amherst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, and University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

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Virtual Event Wrap-Up with Invited Guests

Day One:
Jessica Davila, Director of Digital Strategies and Scholarship, The Claremont Colleges
Robert Hilliker, Associate Provost, Rowan University
Alison Hitchens, Associate University Librarian, Collections, Technology, Scholarly Communication, University of Waterloo

Day Two:
Rosalyn Metz, Associate Dean, Emory University
Francena Turner, CLIR Fellow/Postdoctoral Fellow, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities