Amy Gay oversees services, spaces, and support for digital scholarship and scholarly communication related areas, such as the use of digital tools in research and pedagogy, copyright, research data management workflows and planning, developing open educational resources, and open research sharing.  Her research interests include education of  digital, computational, and primary source literacies; open pedagogy; and methods for successful self-learning. 

To learn more about digital scholarship at the Libraries, visit https://www.binghamton.edu/libraries/services/digital-scholarship/

Digital Scholarship Librarian 

Ruth Carpenter is part of the Digital Scholarship team within the libraries along with Amy and Halie. They offer one-on-one consultations, class instruction, and research help for anyone using digital tools methods in their pedagogy or research. They run the Digital Scholarship Newsletter and the Digital Bytes Blog and are involved in many of the digital scholarship communities on campus. Their personal research interests include: community building, digital literacy, data justice, science fiction cover art, and minimal computing. 

Greg is an instructor in the new Digital & Data Studies minor, which combines programming and data science with a commitment to social justice. They specialize in text mining and machine learning, and their research interests involve applyications of data science to media studies, psychology, and astronomy.

Greg has two cats.

Melissa Haller is a coordinator of the Digital & Data Studies minor. She specializes in geospatial methods and mapping, network science, and statistical analysis. She loves teaching using digital tools like RStudio and QGIS, and her research interests include regional economic development and the geography of innovation.  

Halie Kerns is the newest member of the Digital Scholarship team, alongside Amy and Ruth, as a Digital Scholarship Librarian. Although she is still finding her footing, she hopes to offer support for digital tools, projects, and, especially, with a focus on data visualization and data analysis, come fall. Her research interest includes exploring feminism/queer issues through data and the history of computing. 

Sarah Ellen Ford is a lecturer in the Data and Digital Society program at Binghamton University. Her research explores the ways that social media platforms impact the identity formation of users, with a focus on the ways behavior is created online and how users carry these identities into their offline lives. She has presented elsewhere on the ways that feminist and intersectional scholars can utilize digital tools and data mapping for “small data” research.

My name is Alice Hong, and I am a third-year PhD student in Political Science. My research interests involve using Quantitative Methods to explain state actions against Non-Governmental Organizations.  

I am a math student hailing from Iran, where we usually choose our major at the age of 14. I hold a Master of science in mathematical logic. I am now pursuing a Ph.D. and eager to explore research opportunities in data science. Apart from my passion for math, I enjoy solving puzzles, riddles, and indulging in my favorite hobby which is reading.