2021-2022 Fondren Fellows
- Venus Alemanji, Research by Members of the Racial Geography Project (Mentor: Fabiola López-Durán)
- Marc Armeña, Research by Members of the Racial Geography Project (Mentor: Fabiola López-Durán)
- Sydney Hicks, Enhancing the Fondren Fellows Program (Mentor: Lisa Spiro)
- Chaney Hill, Research by Members of the Racial Geography Project (Mentor: Fabiola López-Durán)
- Grace Kneidel, “Mapping the Reservation: Houston’s Red-Light District, 1908-1917” (Mentor: Brian Riedel)
- Katelyn Landry, Where Is Texas on the SlaveVoyages Website? Reconstructing the Coastwise Traffic to the Lone Star State in the Nineteenth Century (Mentor: Daniel B. Domingues da Silva and Molly Morgan)
- Surabhi Madadi, Translational Humanities for Public Health (Mentor: Kirsten Ostherr)
- Maria Alejandra Mora, Changing the Subject at Fondren Library (Mentor: Jeanette Sewall)
- James Myers, Where Is Texas on the SlaveVoyages Website? Reconstructing the Coastwise Traffic to the Lone Star State in the Nineteenth Century (Mentor: Daniel B. Domingues da Silva and Molly Morgan)
- Katie Nguyen, Oral History Interviews and Archival Processing for the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation, and Racial Injustice (Mentors: Alex Byrd and Caleb McDaniel)
- Juliana Phan, The Sugar Land 95: Mapping Convict Leasing in Fort Bend County, 1865- 2018: A Continuation of the 2020-2021 Project (Mentor: Portia Hopkins)
- Madison Prause, Making Sense of Government Education Resources (Mentor: Anna Xiong and Erin Baumgartner)
- Adrienne Rooney, Research by Members of the Racial Geography Project (Mentor: Fabiola López-Durán)
- Arnav Sankaranthi, Translational Humanities for Public Health (Mentor: Kirsten Ostherr)
- Ben Schachter, Where Is Texas on the SlaveVoyages Website? Reconstructing the Coastwise Traffic to the Lone Star State in the Nineteenth Century (Mentor: Daniel B. Domingues da Silva and Molly Morgan)
- Calista I. Ukeh, Oral History Interviews and Archival Processing for the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation, and Racial Injustice (Mentors: Alex Byrd and Caleb McDaniel)
- Hong-Ye Wang, Fondren Eco-Rep (Mentor: Lisa Spiro)
- Stephen Westich, Research by Members of the Racial Geography Project (Mentor: Fabiola López-Durán)
- Victoria Zabarte, Where Is Texas on the SlaveVoyages Website? Reconstructing the Coastwise Traffic to the Lone Star State in the Nineteenth Century (Mentor: Daniel B. Domingues da Silva and Molly Morgan)
2020-2021 Fondren Fellows
- Maxwell Bender: Teaching and Consulting in R
- Baird Campbell: Media Center Film and Video Archive
- Luna Cortelezzi: "Who's Using It?": Open Educational Resources at Rice
- Ev Delafose: Centennial of the Vote! 100 Years of Activism
- Ashley Fitzpatrick: Fondren Eco-Rep
- Konstantin Georgiev: Media Center Film and Video Archive
- Suzanne Harms: The Sugar Land 95: Mapping Convict Leasing in Fort Bend County, 1865- 2018
- Meghana Nadella: Translational Humanities for Public Health
- Sai Sankeerth: Faculty-Student Research Collaboration in Digital History: Adjusting and Expanding visualizingabolition.org
- Zach Schwarze: A short history of the Leibniz Society of North America
- Karen Siu: Women of Rice Omeka Exhibit
Fall 2019-Summer 2020 Fondren Fellows
- Ryan Chow, "Red Book of Houston"
- Branden Montgomery, "Mapping the Reservation: Houston’s Red-Light District, 1908-1917"
- Leah Olivio, "El Anatsui, , Okwui Enwezor, and the Emergence of Global Art 1989-2019"
- Miles Olsen, "Faculty-Student Research Collaboration in Digital History: Refining Between Oceans and Continents"
- Stanislav Panin, "Cataloging Archives of the Impossible Collections"
- Rachael Pasierowska, "Red Book of Houston"
- James Sanders, "Toward a more environmentally sustainable vendor/publisher packaging global practice"
- Stephanie Scoville, "Harris Gully Natural Area"
- Yanzhou (Andrew) Pan, "Open Science"
Summer 2019 Fondren Fellows
- Thomas Millary and Christopher Senn, "Cataloging paranormal studies collections" (Mentors: Lee Pecht and Anna Shparberg)
- Svetlana Borodina and Ashley Fitzpatrick, "Developing a Sustainability and Resilience Plan for Fondren Library" (Mentor: Lisa Spiro)
Spring 2019 Fondren Fellows
- Jade Kanemitsu and Yifan Wang, "Library Learning for Inquiry"
- Emma Satterfield, "A Time of Protest at Rice"
2018 Fondren Fellows
- Jane Evans, "Harvey Memories Project"
- Jennifer Lee, "Developing a Marketing Plan for Library Publishing Services"
- Mengjia Liu, "Motion Tracking Small Organisms"
- Brook Lu, "Evaluating Engineering Databases: A Pilot Project"
2017 Fondren Fellows
- Nathanael Assefa, “Promoting Archival Collections via Wikipedia”
- Eslam El-Shahat, “Developing a Plan for Research Data Management Graduate Training”
- Edward Valentin, “Mapping Civil War Narratives” (continuation of 2016 project)
- Corinne Wilkinson, “Jesse H. Jones Exhibit”
- Zihua (Pearly) Ye, “Conducting A Faculty-centered Information Needs and Resource Assessment”
2016 Fondren Fellows
To learn more about the Fondren Fellows' work, please see the Fondren Fellows collection in the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive.
MARCEL LAFLAMME, AUTHOR RIGHTS
Graduate student in Anthropology
Mentor: Shannon Kipphut-Smith
This project aims to understand more about how tenure-stream faculty at Rice think about and act on their author rights in connection with their published work. Many faculty want to make their scholarly and professional output more accessible, whether by uploading it to Rice’s institutional depository or by posting it to an academic social network. However, faculty members may not always have a clear understanding of how and where they are permitted to share their work under the terms of the author agreements they have signed. This project uses interviews and document analysis to piece together the values, beliefs, and actually existing practices of faculty members, using participants’ most recent publication as a case study. The results will be used to improve the resources and services that Fondren offers to faculty, and they also stand to fill a gap in the scholarly communication research literature. Fondren Fellows Showcase “Author Rights” by Marcel LaFlamme
IAN LOWRIE, DEVELOPING A CULTURE OF CARE FOR RESEARCH DATA AT RICE
Graduate student in Anthropology
Mentor: Lisa Spiro
Data management has become a more pressing issue for researchers lately, as funding agencies are increasingly requiring researchers to present rationalized data management plans and to ensure access to their research data well after the completion of their funded research. However, institutional support for research data management is still a relatively new field, without established best practices. This project uses interviews with Rice faculty and data librarians at peer institutions to develop insight into the research data management environment at Rice, and develop comprehensive recommendations for how Fondren might best support ongoing efforts to develop policies and infrastructure to support research data management by both faculty and student researchers. It suggests that the existing Rice Digital Scholarship Archive could be profitably used to facilitate sharing and archiving of research data, and identifies a number of key areas where Fondren might assist departments in educating researchers about the importance and technical aspects of rationalized research data management
NEHA POTLAPALLI, FITDESKS
Sophomore, Will Rice College
Mentor: Sue Garrison and Melinda Flannery
During the Fall 2016 semester, Fondren Library will be reviewing alternative seating arrangements for possible student use. This can include bike desks, under desk ellipticals, treadmill desks and more! Alternative desks can improve students’ cognitive function while studying and keep them active. With increasing research showing the dangers of extended sitting, alternative seating arrangements at Fondren can improve student health and grades. Student input is essential to this project to ensure Rice University students will positively benefit from this possible change. Fondren Fellows Showcase “FitDesks” by Neha Potlapalli
CHRISTINA REGELSKI, MAPPING CIVIL WAR NARRATIVES
Graduate student in History
Mentors: Amanda Focke and Rebecca Russell
We designed our project, entitled “Mapping Civil War Narratives,” to make the Woodson Research Center’s rich Civil War-related collections more accessible to researchers. I will use ArcGIS to map where people wrote these documents and what locations they discussed in these documents. This interactive “bird’s-eye view” map will give these collections a new dynamism. Researchers will be able to see the multiple geographies of these collections and the interactions between them. A researcher, for example, could follow the particular route of a soldier in the Army of the Potomac, trace the exchange of letters between Confederate officers and Richmond, or use filters to see where men and women discussed race, politics, violence, or disease. This semester, I will focus first on mapping soldiers’ letters to their families in order to build a framework and methodology for the future expansion of this project to all of the Woodson’s Civil War-related collections. Additionally, I will use Esri Story Maps to highlight one particular collection in order to further show the interpretive possibilities of the Woodson’s collections.