The development of the BRC would be impossible without the work of a large and distributed group of people.
Implementation Team (2019-2023)
Current Staff Members:
Dan Cohen—Principal Investigator (Vice Provost for Information Collaboration, Northeastern University, and Dean, Northeastern University Library)
Patrick Yott—co-Principal Investigator (Associate Dean for Digital Strategies and Services, Northeastern University Library)
Julia Flanders—co-Principal Investigator (Director of the Digital Scholarship Group, Northeastern University Library; Professor of the Practice, Northeastern University English)
Amanda Rust—Project Director (Associate Director of the Digital Scholarship Group, Northeastern University Library)
Dory Klein—Project Co-Director (Community History & Digitization Specialist, Boston Public Library)
Giordana Mecagni—Community Liaison (Head, Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections)
Molly Brown—Curriculum Specialist (Reference and Outreach Archivist, Northeastern University Library)
Amy Ruskin—Data Engineer (Data Engineer, Digital Scholarship Group, Northeastern University Library)
Taryn Gilligan—Research Associate (M.A. in English, Northeastern University)
Ayah Aboelela—Research Associate (Graduate Student, History, Northeastern University)
Laurel Schlegel- Research Associate (Graduate Student, History, Northeastern University)
Past Staff Members
Liam Moore—Research Associate (M.A. in History, Northeastern University)
Michael Kitchen—Project Manager (M.A. in English, Northeastern University)
Urmi Parekh—Research Associate (M.A. in English, Northeastern University)
Avery Blankenship—Research Associate (Graduate Student, English, Northeastern University)
Jillian Decker—Research Associate (Graduate Student, Public History, Northeastern University)
Danielle Rose—Research Associate (Graduate Student, Public History, Northeastern University)
Shannon Webber—Research Associate (Graduate Student, Public History, Northeastern University)
Planning Team (2018)
Dan Cohen—Dean of the Libraries and Co-Principal Investigator
Patrick Yott—Associate Dean for Digital Strategies and Services and Co-Principal Investigator
Julia Flanders—Director, Digital Scholarship Group and Co-Principal Investigator
Giordana Mecagni—Head, Archives and Special Collections
Bahare Sanaie-Movahed—Geographic Information Systems Specialist
Steven Braun—Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist
Sarah Connell—BRC Analyst
Des Alaniz—BRC Coordinator
Colleen Nugent—Digital Scholarship Group Research Assistant
Lauren Bergnes Sell—Digital Scholarship Group Research Assistant
Prototype Development Teams (2018)
From May to October 2018, the BRC team worked with seven faculty-led projects at Northeastern to develop prototypes that can show some of the range of possibilities of a Boston Research Center. These prototypes include faculty and students from a wide range of departments, working together with library staff.
The Birth of Boston
Chris Parsons—Faculty, History
Molly Nebiolo—Graduate Student, History
Matthew Bowser—Graduate Student, History
Boston's 911 Data Project
Jack McDevitt—Director, Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern
Stephen Douglas—Doctoral Student, School of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Keller Sheppard—Doctoral Student, School of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Diversity Explorer
Pedro Cruz—Faculty, Art + Design
John Wihbey—Faculty, Journalism
Alexa Gagosz—Graduate Student, Journalism
Avni Ghael—Graduate Student, Computer Science
Aashish Singh—Graduate Student, Computer Science
Early Black Boston Digital Almanac
Nicole N. Aljoe—Faculty, English Department and African & African American Studies Program
Nicole Sojowski—PlusOne Student, English
Alanna Prince—Graduate Student, English
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon—Chair and Professor, English
The Encyclopedia of Boston
Marty Blatt—Faculty, History
Victoria Cain—Faculty, History
Debra Lavelle—Graduate student, History
Mission Hill 100
Meg Heckman—Faculty, Journalism
Jonathan Kaufman—Faculty, Journalism
John Wihbey—Faculty, Journalism
Aleszu Bajak—Faculty, Journalism
Dan Zedek—Faculty, Journalism
Catherine McGloin—Graduate Student, Journalism
Zach Ben-Amots—Graduate Student, Journalism
Siyuan Sun—Graduate Student, Information Design and Visualization
Boston Desegregation Archive: Annotated Case Law and Digital Reference
Dan Jackson—Executive Director, NuLawLab
Jules Rochielle Sievert—Creative Director, NuLawLab
Margot de Costerd—Research Intern, NuLawLab