Education
PhD, Information Studies
University of Maryland | College Park, MD
Dissertation: “‘Just do the work’: Social, Reparative, and Restorative Justice at American Academic Archives”
Committee: Katrina Fenlon (co-chair), Diana Marsh (co-chair), Ana Ndumu, Ricky Punzalan, & Mary Sies
May 2025 (anticipated)
Graduate Certificate, Digital Studies in the Arts & Humanities
University of Maryland | College Park, MD
May 2021
MS, Library and Information Science (archives management concentration)
Simmons College (now Simmons University)| Boston, MA
Advisor: Jeannette Bastian
May 2013
MA, History
Simmons College (now Simmons University)| Boston, MA
Thesis: “Going Down in History: The Collective Memory of the Titanic”
Received History department Award for Excellence in Thesis Research and Writing, May 2013
Advisor: Laurie Crumpacker; Second reader: Jeannette Bastian
May 2013
BA, History
Purchase College, State University of New York | Purchase, NY
Thesis: “The New Jersey Turnpike: A Road Trip Through the History and Culture of New Jersey”
Advisor: Laura Chmielewski; Second reader: Geoffrey Field
May 2009
Experience
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice
Louisiana State University, School of Library & Information Science | Baton Rouge, LA
August 2022 – present
Instructor of Record
University of Maryland, College of Information Studies | College Park, MD
June 2020 – January 2021; June 2021 – August 2022
Research Assistant (to Katrina Fenlon, Diana Marsh, & Victoria Van Hyning)
University of Maryland, College of Information Studies | College Park, MD
January 2021 – June 2021
Teaching Assistant (to Ursula Gorham)
University of Maryland, College of Information Studies | College Park, MD
January 2020 – June 2020
Research Assistant (to Douglas W. Oard and Katie Shilton)
University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) | College Park, MD
August 2017 – January 2020
Research Assistant (to Ricardo L. Punzalan)
University of Maryland, College of Information Studies | College Park, MD
August 2017 – August 2019
Digital Archivist
Davidson College | Davidson, NC
October 2013 – July 2017
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Educational Studies
Davidson College | Davidson, NC
August 2016 – January 2017
Project Producer
metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University | Cambridge, MA
October 2012 – October 2013
Research Associate
Adams Papers Editorial Project, Massachusetts Historical Society | Boston, MA
October 2011 – June 2013
Archives Intern/Volunteer
Historic New England | Boston, MA
September 2012 – May 2013
Archivist
Nichols House Museum | Boston, MA
March 2011 – October 2012
Archives Assistant
Private Collection (papers of Ti-Grace Atkinson) | Cambridge, MA
February 2012 – September 2012
Teaching Assistant
Simmons College (History Department) | Boston, MA
December 2010 – May 2011; December 2011 – May 2012
Archives Intern
Feminist Theory Archives, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University | Providence, RI
February 2011 – May 2011
Collections and Library Intern
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | Washington, DC
October 2009 – May 2010
Education Department Intern
Hudson River Museum | Yonkers, NY
May 2007 – May 2009
Publications
- Mahmoud F. Sayed, William Cox, Jonah Lynn Rivera, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Modassir Iqbal, Douglas W. Oard and Katie Shilton. “A Test Collection for Relevance and Sensitivity.” SIGIR ’20: Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 2020.
- Natalie Greene Taylor, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Michelle H. Martin, and Bonnie Nardi (eds.). Information in Contemporary Society: 14th International Conference, iConference 2019, Washington, DC, USA, March 31–April 3, 2019, Proceedings. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb and Anelise H. Shrout. ’Starting From Scratch’? Workshopping New Directions in Undergraduate Digital Humanities. Digital Humanities Quarterly: Imagining the DH Undergraduate special issue 11.3 (2017).
- Sarah Potvin, Thomas Padilla, and Caitlin Christian-Lamb. Digital Humanities In the Library / Of the Library. dh+lib 2016 Special Issue (2016).
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb and Sara Sikes. How Did They Make That?: Adams Timeline. DHCommons Issue 1 (2015).
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. Review of Through the Archival Looking Glass: A Reader on Diversity and Inclusion, edited by Mary Caldera and Kathryn M. Neal. Metropolitan Archivist 21, no. 1 (2015): 10.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. “‘A View of Grosvenor Square London,’ by Thomas Bowles III, ca. 1750.” Descriptive illustration essay, in Papers of John Adams, The Adams Papers: Series III, General Correspondence and Other Papers of the Adams Statesmen, Volume 17 (April–November 1785), edited by Gregg L. Lint et al, xiii-xiv. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. “Archivists and Digital Curation (session report).” New England Archivists Newsletter 40, no. 1 (2013): 22-23.
Web Writing
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. “‘It Hasn’t Been Exactly Easy:’ Early Student Reflections on Integration at Davidson,” Davidson Journal, February 2018.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. Blog posts, Around The D: the Davidson College Archives & Special Collections blog, October 2013 – July 2017.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. Blog posts, Day of DH 2016: Caitlin Christian-Lamb, April 2016.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. Session/meeting report, “SAA 2015: The Issues & Advocacy (I&A) Roundtable Meeting,” Society of American Archivists Students and New Archival Professionals (SNAP) Blog, October 2015.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. Blog post, “Everything I Know About Breaking Silos I Learned From You, It’s True: Lessons From Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries at HASTAC 2015,” The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) blog, August 2015.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb and Paul Moore. Blog post, “Crossed Wireless After the Titanic‘s Sinking,” DHSI 2015 Text Mapping as Modelling class blog, June 2015.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. Blog posts, Day of DH 2015: Caitlin Christian-Lamb, May 2015.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. Blog posts, Day of DH 2014: Caitlin Christian-Lamb, April 2014.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. Interview, “Student Experience Series: Caitlin Christian-Lamb,” Society of American Archivists Students and New Archival Professionals (SNAP) Blog, February 2014.
Presentations
Conference/Symposium Presentations
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. “’Repair, Repair, Repair’: The Role of the Archivist in Social, Reparative, and Restorative Justice at Academic Institutions.” ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2023 Research Forum, virtual, July 2023.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. “Upending the Order: Investigating Challenges and Commonalities in Archival Justice Work.” The Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI) 2023 conference, Baton Rouge, LA, June 2023.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. “’It’s About Who’s Been Missing’: Investigating Gaps between Theory and Practice of Social, Reparative, and Restorative Justice Work in Academic Archives.” The Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI) 2022 virtual conference, July 2022.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb and Ana Roeschley. “Community Collections in Institutional Archives: Towards Challenging Traditional Archival Paradigms.” The Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI) 2019 conference, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, July 2019.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Ricardo L. Punzalan, Michelle Caswell, and Oraison H. Larmon. “Assessing the State of Archival Impact.” The Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI) 2019 conference, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, July 2019.
- Ana Roeschley, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Jessica Holden, and Harvey Long, “Representing Survivors of Violence in College and University Archives.” ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2018: Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA), National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA), and the Society of American Archivists (SAA), Washington, DC, August 2018.
- Doug Oard, Katie Shilton, and Caitlin Christian-Lamb. “Safe Search Among Sensitive Content: Investigating Archivist and Donor Conceptions of Privacy, Secrecy, and Access” (open forum/presentation). ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2018: Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA), National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA), and the Society of American Archivists (SAA), Washington, DC, August 2018.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. “Creating Collaborative Community-Centric Impact Metrics: Initial Results from the Valuing Our Scans Summit.” The Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI) 2018 conference, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, July 2018.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. “Some… Pedagogical Provocations” (part of panel on DH pedagogy). 2018 Regional Digital Humanities Symposium, University of Virginia Scholars’ Lab, Charlottesville, VA, March 2018.
- Brooke Bryan, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, and Rachel Walton. “High Impact Pedagogies and Sustainable Archives: Supporting Oral History Curricula at Undergraduate Liberal Arts Institutions.” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 2017.
- Lee Skallerup Bessette, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Kristen Eshleman, Benjamin Schaeffer, Siobhan Senier, and Paul Youngman (August 2017). “Sustaining and Scaling the Digital Liberal Arts.” Digital Humanities 2017, Montréal, Canada.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Jeannette Bastian, Chelsea Gunn, Aaisha Haykal, Kelly Kietur, and David Staniunas (July 2017). “I Do Not Think it Means What You Think it Means: Differing Conceptions of the Archive.” ARCHIVES 2017: alike/different, Portland, OR.
- Jessica Venlet, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Brian Dietz, Valerie Gillispie, and Nicholas Graham (March 2017). “Social Media Archiving: Documenting Community Reflections and Reactions.” Society of North Carolina Archivists Annual Conference, Asheville, NC.
- Sammie L. Morris, Christina Bleyer, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Kate Donovan, Tracy B. Grimm, Mark Levitt, Cinda Nofzinger, Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh, Jason Speck, Heather Stecklein, Anne Turkos, and Joshua Cobbs Youngblood (August 2016). “Embedded Archivists: Exploring New Depths in Teaching with Primary Sources.” ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2016, the Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and the Society of American Archivists, Atlanta, GA.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb (April 2016). “The Embedded Archivist” (as part of the “Archives Instruction and Outreach Outside the Box” panel). Society of North Carolina Archivists/South Carolina Archival Association joint conference, Charlotte, NC.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Caitlin Brennecke, Kelsey Duinkerken, Jessica Holden, and Anne Morgan (August 2015). “You Do What? Non-Traditional Outreach that Works.” ARCHIVES 2015: the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, Cleveland, OH (write-up in Archival Outlook September/October 2015, page 16).
- Chellammal Vaidyanathan, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Charlotte Nunes, Robin Wharton, and Elon Lang (May 2015). “Thinking Outside the Archive: Engaging Students and Community in Special Collections Digital Projects.” HASTAC 2015, East Lansing, MI.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Amy Ciesielski, Skip Elsheimer, Chelcie Rowell, and Steve Villereal (March 2015). “Reel History: Home Movie Days Hosted by Cultural Heritage Institutions.” Society of North Carolina Archivists Annual Conference, Greenville, NC.
- Jan Blodgett, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, and Craig Milberg (June 2014). “Curriculum Driven: A Liberal Arts College Archives Path to Digital Humanities.” Data Driven: Digital Humanities in the Library, Charleston, SC.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb (April 2014). “Librarians and Study Abroad: An Opportunity for International Communication and Engagement.” HASTAC 2014, Lima, Peru.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb (April 2014). “No Archive is an Island: Implementation of Islandora at Davidson College.” Society of North Carolina Archivists Annual Conference, Raleigh, NC.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb (November 2013). “Just the Tip of the Iceberg: Titanic Tourism.” Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, Atlantic City, NJ
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Taylor Kalloch, and Ana Knezevic (April 2012). “Searching for Slaves and Servants: Investigating the Silences at the Shirley-Eustis House.” First Annual Simmons College Graduate Student Symposium, Boston, MA (panel report, pages 5 -6).
Conference Posters
- Christian-Lamb, Caitlin. “‘It’s About Who’s Been Missing’: Investigating Gaps between Theory and Practice of Social, Reparative, and Restorative Justice Work in Academic Archives.” ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2023: Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) and the Society of American Archivists (SAA), Washington, DC, July 2023.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb. “’It’s About Who’s Been Missing’: Investigating Gaps between Theory and Practice of Social, Reparative, and Restorative Justice Work in Academic Archives.” Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC), October 2022.
- Sarah Potvin, John E. Russell, Roxanne Shirazi, Caro Pinto, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Patrick Williams, Zach Coble, and Thomas Padilla (May 2016). “Scaling and Diversifying at the intersection of digital humanities and libraries: An update from dh+lib.” 2016 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb (July 2015). “Collaborative, Speculative, Possible Technologically-Enhanced Mobile Libraries, Or How Davidson College Students Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Library.” Digital Humanities 2015, Sydney, Australia.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb (June 2015). “Collaborative, Speculative, Possible Technologically-Enhanced Mobile Libraries, Or How Davidson College Students Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Library.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Colloquium, Victoria, Canada.
- Sara Sikes and Caitlin Christian-Lamb (July 2014). “Adams Family Legacy: Visualizing the World of an American Presidential Family.” Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Invited Talks & Presentations
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb (September 2016). “Preserving Family Papers.” Davidson Historical Society, Davidson, NC.
- Annie Pho, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Mireille Djenno, and Emily Jack (November 2015). Information and Library Science Student Association (ILSSA) panel on networking. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, Chapel Hill, NC.
- Liz Adams, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Matthew Farrell, Valerie Gillespie, Paula Mangiafico, and Linda Sellers (October 2014). “Young Professionals in Archives” panel. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, Chapel Hill, NC.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb and Susan Kerr (March 2014). “Under Lake Norman: Crowdsourcing at the Davidson College Archives.” Code4Lib 2014 Archival Discovery and Use pre-conference, Raleigh, NC.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb (April 2013). “The ‘What’ and ‘Why’ of Community Archives.” “From the Archives” lecture series, The History Project, Boston, MA.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Taylor Kalloch, and Ana Knezevic (June 2011). “Searching for Slaves and Servants: Investigating the Silences at the Shirley-Eustis House.” The Shirley-Eustis House Summer Lecture Series, Roxbury, MA.
Teaching Experience
Professor/Instructor of Record
Professor, LIS 7703: Advanced Seminar in Archival Studies, Louisiana State University, School of Information Studies, Summer 2 2023, Summer 2 2024, Fall 1 2024.
Professor, LIS 7004: Management of Information Organizations, Louisiana State University, School of Information Studies, Spring 2 2023, Fall 2024.
Professor, LIS 7704: Archival Arrangement & Description, Louisiana State University, School of Information Studies, Fall 2 2022, Spring 1 2023, Spring 2 2023, Fall 1 2023, Spring 1 2024, Spring 2 2024.
Professor, LIS 7011: Information Behavior, Louisiana State University, School of Information Studies, Spring 1 2023, Spring 1 2024, Spring 2 2024.
Professor, LIS 7505: Introduction to Digital Curation, Louisiana State University, School of Information Studies, Fall 2 2022, Summer 1 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2 2023, Summer 1 2024.
Professor, LIS 7009: Understanding Research, Louisiana State University, School of Information Studies, Fall 1 2022, Fall 1 2023.
Instructor of record, INST 201: Introduction to Information Science, University of Maryland, College of Information Studies, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, and Summer 2022.
Instructor of record, INST 646: Principles of Records and Information Management, University of Maryland, College of Information Studies, Summer 2021.
Instructor of record, INST 604: Introduction to Archives and Digital Curation, University of Maryland, College of Information Studies, Summer and Fall 2020.
Co-instructor of record, EDU 290: Oral History (with Hilton Kelly), Davidson College, Fall 2016.
Semester-long Co-Teaching or embedded Archival instruction
Instruction sessions/discussions and project support (with James Sponsel, Brian Little, and Daniel Lynds), REL 278: Islamic City (Rizwan Zamir), Davidson College, January 2017 – May 2017.
Embedded archivist/project coordinator, SOC 440: Sociology of Beatties Ford Road (Joseph C. Ewoodzie, Ron Stodghill, and Tiffany Taylor), Davidson College and Johnson C. Smith University, January 2017 – May 2017.
Embedded archivist/co-instructor, HIS/GER 433: The Holocaust and Representation (Scott Denham), Davidson College, January 2016 – May 2016.
Multiple Session/module Instruction
Archives instruction sessions/discussions and digital project support (with Jan Blodgett), HIS 306: Women & Gender in U.S. History to 1870 (Rose Stremlau), Davidson College, January – May 2017.
Mobile Library Design modules instructor, DIG 350: History & Future of the Book (Mark Sample), Davidson College, August – December 2014.
Archives instruction session and student project consultant, ENV 499: Environmental Studies Capstone II (Dave Martin and Brad Johnson), Davidson College, January – May 2015.
Data visualization and digital tools tutor, ANT 291: Digital Culture (Fuji Lozada), Davidson College, January – May 2015.
Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant (to Ursula Gorham), LBSC 602: Serving Information Needs, University of Maryland, College of Information Studies, January 2020 – June 2020.
Teaching Assistant (to Michael McGuire), HIST 101: World Civilizations II (1500 to present), Simmons College, December 2011 – May 2012.
Teaching Assistant (to Trevor Coates), HIST 101: World Civilizations II (1500 to present), Simmons College, December 2010 – May 2011.
One-shot Instruction
Guest lecturer, IST 600: Digital Humanities for Librarians, Archivists, and Cultural Heritage Workers (Patrick Williams), Syracuse University, March 2019.
Lecture and discussion session on email privacy (with Doug Oard), INST 201: Introduction to Information Science/Heroes and Villains (Beth Bonsignore), University of Maryland, College of Information Studies, April 2018.
Lecture and discussion session on email privacy (with Katie Shilton), INST 201: Introduction to Information Science/Heroes and Villains (Kelly Hoffman), University of Maryland, College of Information Studies, April 2018.
Archival theory and instruction session, SPA 358: Ameridian Writing (Patricio Boyer), Davidson College, March 2017.
Digital archives instruction session and project (with James Sponsel), GER 341: Borderline Europe (Robin Ellis), Davidson College, September 2016.
Archives/scholarly communication session/discussion, REL 401: Senior Colloquium (Rizwan Zamir), Davidson College, September 2016.
Archives instruction session/discussion, HIS 488: Kelley Honors Seminar (Patricia Tilburg), Davidson College, September 2016.
Omeka/Neatline tutoring sessions (with Anelise Shrout), HIS 264: Digital Mexican Revolution (Jane Mangan), Davidson College, April 2016.
Archives research instruction session, WRI 101: Slave Testimonies (Gabe Klehr), Davidson College, April 2016.
Archives research instruction session, WRI 101: Burden of Evidence (Rebeca Fernandez), Davidson College, March 2016.
Archives instruction session (with Jan Blodgett and Sharon Byrd), ENV 340: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral (Amy Kohout), Davidson College, March 2016.
Archives and research instruction session (with Cara Evanson), SPA 358: Writing the Ameridian Americas (Patricio Boyer), Davidson College, February 2016.
Archives research and instruction sessions, FMS 421: After Birth of a Nation (Neil Lerner), Davidson College, October 2015.
Archival digital scanning labs (with Jan Blodgett), DIG 101: Intro to Digital Studies (Kuba Kabala), Davidson College, September 2015.
Archives and copyright instruction session (with James Sponsel), PSY 377: Advanced Seminar – Life Stories (Kristi Multhaup), Davidson College, September 2015.
Archives instruction session, HIS 488: Kelley Honors Seminar (Robin Barnes), Davidson College, September 2015.
Introduction to Zotero (with Sarah Crissinger), CIS 495: Thesis (Fuji Lozada), Davidson College, August 2015.
Archives instruction & class project resource session, WRI 101: Racism and White Privilege (Gabe Klehr), Davidson College, April 2015.
Digital archives instruction session, POL 442: Institutions and Indentities in the Greater Middle East (Maren Milligan), Davidson College, February 2015.
Archives instruction session, HIS 245: Reading, Writing and Knowing in Early America and the Digital Age (Anelise H. Shrout), Davidson College, January 2015.
Digital archives instruction session, ENGL 5900F: Literature and the Digital Humanities (Brian Greenspan), Carleton University, November 2014.
Data visualization module instructor, HIS 382: Science and the Body (Saeyoung Park), Davidson College, October 2014.
Archives instruction session, HIS 488: Kelley Honors Seminar (Jane Mangan), Davidson College, September 2014.
Introduction to Zotero, CIS 495: Thesis (Fuji Lozada), Davidson College, September 2014.
Workshops & Webinars
Co-leader (with Natália Bolfarini Tognoli, Forget Chaterera-Zambuko, Rebecca Frank, Jamie A. Lee, and Ana Roeschley), “Learning to Teach: Creating, Auditing, and Sharing Archival Studies Syllabi” workshop, AERI 2023, Baton Rouge, LA, June 2023.
Co-leader (with Forget Chaterera-Zambuko, Rebecca Frank, Jamie A. Lee, and Ana Roeschley), “Making a Statement: Determining Your Pedagogical Style and Crafting a Teaching Statement” workshop, AERI 2023, Baton Rouge, LA, June 2023.
Workshop co-instructor (with Marika Cifor, Chelsea Gunn, Adam Kriesberg, and Jamie A. Lee), “‘Becoming an Archivist in a Time of Uncertainty and Unrest’: Teaching Introduction to Archives Courses in the Current Climate,” AERI 2021, virtual, July 2021.
Workshop co-instructor (with T-Kay Sangwand and Purdom Lindblad), “Bridging Justice Based Practices for Archives + Critical DH” workshop, Digital Humanities 2018, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2018.
Workshop co-instructor (with Chelcie Rowell and Stewart Varner), “Introduction to Digital Humanities for Archivists & Librarians” workshop, Society of North Carolina Archivists/South Carolina Archival Association joint conference, Charlotte, NC, March 2016.
Workshop co-instructor (with Anelise H. Shrout), Starting from Scratch?: Strategies for Building Undergraduate-Centered #DH Programs workshop, Digital Humanities 2015, June 2015.
Special Collections highlights discussion session (with Sharon Byrd and Mark Sample), Electronic Literature MOOC (Mark Sample; synchronous with DIG 220 on-campus course), DavidsonX/edX, Fall 2015 (filmed May 2015).
Webinar co-instructor (with Chellammal Vaidyanathan and Mary Elings), American Library Association Reference and User Services Association webinar, “Exploring Partnerships with Faculty and Other User Groups for Digital Humanities Projects,” May 2015 [watch recorded webinar here].
Workshop co-instructor (with Rachel Stewart, Brad Lockhart, and Sophia Smith), “Don’t Lose It! A Workshop in Saving and Protecting Your Digital Work,” Davidson College, April 2015.
Event Organizing Experience
- Rashaad Phillips and Caitlin Christian-Lamb (April 2016). “Race at Davidson” panel (as part of the Tau Omicron Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity’s Alpha Week). Held at Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb (October 2015). Art, Archives & Documentation panel (as part of Archives Month 2015 programming). Held at Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Lia Newman, Kate Hall, and Lee Summerell (October 2015). Archives Month Art Show (as part of Archives Month 2015 programming). Held at Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb and Chelcie Rowell (November 2014). Piedmont Triad Home Movie Day. Held at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
- Mark Sample, Kristen Eshleman, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Anelise Hanson Shrout, Somaly Kim Wu, Alex Chapin, Min Jiang, and Aaron Shapiro (October 2014). THATCamp Piedmont 2014 (schedule and notes here). Held at Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb (December 2012). GSLIS Talks: Ideas Worth Spreading. Held at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Boston, MA.
- Caitlin Christian-Lamb and Erin Bazar Smith (April 2012). GSLIS Talks: Ideas Worth Spreading. Held at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Boston, MA.
Grants
- Recipient, Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant, The Graduate School, University of Maryland, 2018.
- Principal Investigator, “Davidson College Archives and Special Collections Comprehensive Preservation Plans,” Preservation Assistance Grant for Smaller Institutions, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2016 – 2017.
- Grant co-author/team member, “History Homecoming Day: Digitizing the Gaps in the Diverse History of a Small College Town,” Common Heritage, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2016 – 2017.
- Co-Principal Investigator (with Rachel Walton, Charlotte, Nunes, and Jason W. Dean), “True Stories,” Faculty Advancement Grant, Associated Colleges of the South, 2016 – 2017.
- Recipient/grant author, Digital Studies Professional Development Grant, Davidson College, June – July 2016.
- Recipient/grant author, Digital Studies Professional Development Grant, Davidson College, June – July 2015.
- Recipient/grant author, Student Research Fund Grant, Office of Sponsored Programs, Simmons College, December 2012 – May 2013.
Awards & Honors
- Bursary recipient, Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI), University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, July 2018.
- Recipient, International Conference Student Support Award, The Graduate School, University of Maryland, June 2018.
- Dean’s Fellowship, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, 2017 – 2018.
- Selected Participant/Bursary, New Scholars Seminar in Digital Humanities at DH2017, Kule Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Alberta, CHCI, and centerNet, August 2017.
- Tuition scholarship, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, June 2017.
- Tuition scholarship, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, June 2016.
- Tuition scholarship, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, June 2015.
- ACH/HASTAC Bursary Award, HASTAC 2015, May 2015.
- DLF/CLIR + ER&L Cross-Pollinator Travel Award, Electronic Resources & Libraries 10th Anniversary Conference, February 2015.
- Student scholarship, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, June 2013.
- Award for Excellence in Thesis Research and Writing (for “Going Down in History: The Collective Memory of the Titanic”), Graduate Program in History, Simmons College, May 2013.
- Student scholarship, Digital Humanities Winter Institute, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, January 2013.
- Bursary, Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (“Camp Edit”), Association for Documentary Editing, August 2012.
Professional Service
National & International
October 2020 – present: Peer reviewer, Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies.
May 2015 – present: Review Editor, dh+lib.
August 2022 – June 2023: Co-Chair, 2023 Program Committee, Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI).
February 2020 – March 2021: Conference proposal reviewer, Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH).
January 2020 – August 2020: Member, 2020 Program Committee, Review Editor, Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI).
May 2019 – August 2019: Liaison/Project Consultant, Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS).
May 2018 – April 2019: Proceedings Assistant Chair, iConference 2019.
August 2016 – August 2018: Co-Chair, Society of American Archivists Standards Committee.
October 2014 – August 2018: Ex Officio, Society of American Archivists Technical Subcommittee on Guidelines for Reappraisal and Deaccessioning (TS-GRD).
May 2015 – May 2017: Peer reviewer, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.
July 2016 – July 2016: Metadata Expert, Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS).
August 2014 – August 2016: Member, Society of American Archivists Standards Committee.
January 2014 – December 2015: Editor-at-Large, Digital Humanities Now.
August 2013 – May 2015: Editor-at-Large, dh+lib Review.
August 2012 – August 2013: Member, Website committee, Association for Documentary Editing.
Regional
July 2015 – April 2017: Member, Society of North Carolina Archivists Archives Month Committee.
May 2014 – April 2017: Member, Society of North Carolina Archivists Education Committee.
February 2015 – March 2015: Peer reviewer, Special Issue: SNAP, Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists 33 no.1.
May 2014 – May 2015: Member At Large, Society of North Carolina Archivists Executive Board.
July 2014 – March 2015: Assistant Chair, Society of North Carolina Archivists Program Committee.
June 2013 – October 2013: Membership and Outreach & Training Committees Volunteer and Portal-Tester, Digital Commonwealth.
Institutional/Local
August 2022 – present: Member, SLIS Curriculum Committee, Louisiana State University.
September 2020 – September 2021: Student Representative, iSchool Assembly, University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies.
February 2019 – December 2019: ESL Volunteer Teacher, College Park Language Exchange, College Park United Methodist Church.
December 2015 – July 2017: Member, Open Education Stipend Committee, Davidson College.
December 2015 – July 2017: Member, Gale Digital Studies Prize Committee, Davidson College.
March 2016 – December 2016: Member, Livability Board, Town of Davidson.
May 2013 – October 2013: “Roadie”/ Volunteer, Mass Memories Road Show at University of Massachusetts Boston.
January 2012 – January 2013: Co-Vice-President, Library and Information Science Student Association, Simmons College.
May 2007 – May 2009: Justice, Community Standards Hearing Boards, Purchase College, State University of New York.
May 2008 – December 2008: Member, Board of Directors, Purchase College Association, Purchase College, State University of New York.
May 2008 – December 2008: Chair of the Student Senate/ Vice President for Internal Affairs, Purchase Student Government Association Inc., Purchase College, State University of New York.
June 2007 – December 2008: Chair of the Elections, Finance, and Steering Committees, Purchase Student Government Association Inc., Purchase College, State University of New York.
June 2007 – December 2008: Student Representative, College Finance Committee, Purchase College, State University of New York.
June 2007 – December 2008: Student Representative, College Strategic Planning Committee, Purchase College, State University of New York.
June 2007 – June 2008: Coordinator of Finance, Purchase Student Government Association Inc., Purchase College, State University of New York.
Professional Development & Training
- Introduction to Javascript and Data Visualization course, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, June 2017.
- Understanding The Predigital Book: Technology and Texts course, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, June 2016.
- ArchivesSpace training workshop, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, January 2016.
- Design Kit: The Course for Human-Centered Design MOOC (as part of the Davidson College WildCatalysts working group), August – October 2015.
- Text Mapping as Modelling course, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, June 2015.
- Text Mining with the HathiTrust Research Center HASTAC 2015 post-conference workshop, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, May 2015.
- Cleaning Up the Metadata Mess with OpenRefine: A Hands-On Approach, Electronic Resources & Libraries 2015 post-conference workshop, Austin, TX, February 2015.
- Digital Map Making – CartoDB/ ArcGIS Online workshop, Research Hub at the UNC Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2014.
- Principles of Data Visualization workshop, Research Hub at the UNC Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, September 2014
- Digital Humanities Pedagogy workshop & panel, Digital Scholarship Services, Duke University Libraries, Durham, NC, February 2014.
- Project Management for Digital Humanists workshop, Digital Scholarship Services, Duke University Libraries, Durham, NC, November 2013.
- Digital Humanities Data workshop, Digital Scholarship Services, Duke University Libraries, Durham, NC, November 2013.
- Data Scientist Training for Librarians (DST4L) Software Carpentry workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, August 2013.
- Advanced HTML & CSS refresher course, Massachusetts Historical Society staff workshop, Boston, MA, June 2013.
- Multimedia Design for Research Creation, Community Engagement, and Knowledge Mobilization course, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, June 2013.
- Data Curation for Digital Humanists course, Digital Humanities Winter Institute, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, College Park, MD, January 2013.
- “Publishing and Transforming TEI Data: XSLT for Digital Humanities” workshop, Women Writers Project, Brown University, Providence, RI, December 2012.
- Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (“Camp Edit”), Association for Documentary Editing, Charlottesville, VA, August 2012.
Affiliations & Memberships
- Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), 2012 – 2019.
- Beta Phi Mu, Beta Beta chapter, 2014 – present.
- Society of American Archivists (SAA), 2011 – 2019.
- Society of North Carolina Archivists (SNCA), 2013 – 2017.