{"id":32262,"date":"2021-08-16T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/?p=32262"},"modified":"2021-08-16T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:41:10","slug":"creos-hires-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/creos-hires-three\/32262\/","title":{"rendered":"CREOS hires three postdoctoral associates as a part of Mellon Foundation award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/receives-grant-mellon\/30919\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2020 Mellon Foundation award to CREOS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to fund three postdoctoral associates for two years each is ramping up for September 2021 after a one-year delay due to the pandemic. Faculty members\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lit.mit.edu\/people\/sframpton\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stephanie Ann Frampton<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/~rplevy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roger Levy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mcgovern.mit.edu\/profile\/rebecca-saxe\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rebecca Saxe<\/span><\/a>,<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> along with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/creos\/about\/#CREOS-staff\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CREOS staff<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and library staff <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.mit.edu\/profiles\/yel\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ye Li<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.mit.edu\/profiles\/szarko\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mark Szarko<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, will be thought partners and mentor the incoming postdocs.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Corey Johnson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, PhD, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, will work with Stephanie Frampton, associate professor of literature and faculty director of the MIT Programs in Digital Humanities,\u00a0to conduct a research project to advance equity and accessibility of archives and special collections. Johnson is considering a focus on digital access to indigenous collections when the original materials were only intended for a limited audience.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Suman Maity<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, PhD, Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, will work with Professor Roger Levy in Brain and Cognitive Science to conduct a research project on computational social science for scholarly communications and open and equitable science.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Ashley Thomas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, PhD, Cognitive Science, UC Irvine will work with faculty member Rebecca Saxe, John W. Jarve (1978) Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, to develop a new course at MIT and conduct research on tools for rigorous and reproducible research.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information about Johnson, Maity, and Thomas, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">please check the <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/creos\/about\/postdocs\/\">CREOS website<\/a>. We are looking forward to having them join us in September and October.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 Mellon Foundation award to CREOS to fund three postdoctoral associates for two years each is ramping up for September 2021 after a one-year delay due to the pandemic. Faculty members\u00a0Stephanie Ann Frampton, Roger Levy, and Rebecca Saxe, along with CREOS staff and library staff Ye Li and Mark Szarko, will be thought partners and mentor the incoming postdocs. Corey Johnson, PhD, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, will work with Stephanie Frampton, associate professor of literature and faculty director of the MIT Programs in Digital Humanities,\u00a0to conduct a research project to advance equity and accessibility of archives and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"subtitle":"","is_event":false,"calendar_url":"","calendar_id":"","calendar_image":"","pauthor":"","urgent":false,"notes":"","featuredListImg":false,"homeImg":false,"listImg":false,"homepage_post_title":"","featuredArticle":"false"},"categories":[10,251],"tags":[436,437,371,438,281,264,439],"class_list":["post-32262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10","category-social-sciences","tag-creos","tag-grant","tag-information-science","tag-mellon","tag-mit-libraries","tag-open-access","tag-postdocs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}