S.E. Hackney

Education

• PhD in Library and Information Science from University of Pittsburgh, 2022

• MSLIS + Advanced Certificate in Digital Humanities, Pratt Institute, 2016

• BA in Linguistics, New York University, 2008

Work Experience

Teaching:

• Queens College GSLIS LBSCI 731 - From Manuscripts to eBooks: Studies in Print Culture

Previously Taught:

• University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information, LIS 2716 - Digital Humanities, Instructor of Record, Summer 2019 + Summer 2022

• School of Information, Pratt Institute LIS 681: Community Building and Engagement - Instructor of Record, Spring 2022

• University of Pennsylvania DreamLab Digital Humanities Workshop Teaching Assistant, “Tidy Data for Humanists” Course - June 14 -17, 2021 with Dr. Matthew Lincoln - https://web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/tidy-data-2021/

Research & Professional Interests

Grants & Fellowships

• Diamondstien-Spielvogel Research Fellow, Center for Research in the Humanities, New York Public Library, Fall 2022 “Classification in a Networked World: Viewing the Work of S.R. Ranganathan from the Digital Age” https://www.nypl.org/fellowships/diamonstein-spielvogel-fellowship-program/fellows 

• Mary Margaret (Peg) Corbett Memorial Award for best PhD LIS dissertation proposal, 2019-2020 “Between Text and Language: Unicode, Emojis, and The Standardization of Digital Character-Encoding”

• Making Advances: Sex, Gender, and the Politics of Images” Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh. Summer 2018.

• 2016 Sotheby’s Institute of Art Research Award, “Historical 'Big Data': Visualizations of Algernon Graves' Art Sales in the Early 20th Century and Today,” with Lily Brewer. https://www.arlisna.org/news/news-events/1121-2016-sotheby-institute-of-art-research-award-winner

Selected Publications

“Structure-based Network Analysis,” in Weingart, Scott B., Susan Grunewald, Matthew Lincoln et al. (eds.). The Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook. Carnegie Mellon University, Updated February 04, 2020. https://cmu-lib.github.io/dhlg/

“Creating Digital Collections: Museum Content and the Public.” with Zoe Faye Pickard. Transforming Digital Worlds. iConference 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10766. (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78105-1_71

“Visualizing Identities in LIS Literature.” With Dinah Handel, Bianca Hezekiah, Jessica Hochman, Amy Lau, and Chris Alen Sula. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 59 (1-2), pp. 10-32. (2018). https://doi.org/10.3138/jelis.59.1-2.04

“A Survey of Digital Humanities Programs” with Chris Alen Sula and Philip Cunningham. Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy 11 (2017). https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/a-survey-of-digital-humanities-programs

“Privacy is Hard Work.” The Recompiler, Issue 7: Security. 2017. https://recompilermag.com/issues/issue-7/privacy-is-hard-work/

“NYCDH Week 2016: Workshops in Review” Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, January 26, 2017. https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/nycdh-week-2016-workshops-in-review/

Conference Presentations:

“There are no .women on the Internet: The capitalist logic of top-level domains.” Long paper at Cultural Studies Association Conference, 1 June 2019. https://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/uploads/1/2/5/9/125989896/2019_csa_program.pdf

“A Textual Analysis of Missing Gendered Emojis.” with S.L. Nelson. Long paper at Gender Bodies & Technology. 26 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190423165606/http://www.genderbodiestechnology.com/preliminary-schedule

“Decolonizing Digital Text: Writing with/against the Master's Tools.” Long paper at HASTAC 2019: Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education. 16-18 May 2019. http://hastac2019.org/hastac2019FinalProgram.pdf

“Flexibility and Feedback in Digital Standards-Making: Unicode and the Rise of Emojis.” Short Paper at Digital Humanities 2018: Bridges/Puentes. June 28, 2018. https://dh2018.adho.org/flexibility-and-feedback-in-digital-standards-making-unicode-and-the-rise-of-emojis/

“Interventions in Personal Privacy Practice” Consenting to Be (Un)Seen: Personal Privacy Practice in the Digital Age Panel at Cultural Studies Association Conference. June 2, 2018. http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/files/CSAprogram_final(1).pdf 

“Creating Digital Collections: Museum Content and the Public.” with Zoe Faye Pickard. Preliminary Results Paper at iConference 2018: Transforming Digital Worlds. (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78105-1_71

“A Survey of Digital Humanities Programs” with Chris Alen Sula and Phillip Cunningham. Digital Humanities 2017. Montréal, August 11, 2017. https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/232/232.pdf 

“A Survey of Digital Humanities Programs” with Chris Alen Sula and Phillip Cunningham. Innovation in Digital Humanities Pedagogy Workshop. Digital Humanities 2017. Montréal, August 11, 2017.

“I Want to Be Believed: Content and Structure as Value Propositions in Ufology Websites” Text Analysis Panel at Keystone DH 2017. Philadelphia, PA. July 14, 2017. http://sched.co/B3bw

 “The Wikipedia Page for ‘Shorts’.” Ways of Knowing Panel at Theorizing the Web 17. New York City, NY. April 7, 2017. http://theorizingtheweb.tumblr.com/2017/program

“Historical ‘Big Data': Visualizations of Algernon Graves' Art Sales in the Early 20th Century and Today.” New Voices in the Profession Panel. Presentation at 2017 Art Libraries Society of North America Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA. February 8, 2017. https://www.arlisna.org/images/conferences/2017/Program.pdf 

“Data Sousveillance: An Analysis of Cultural and Congressional Surveillance Rhetoric Over Time.”  With Rajene Hardeman, Erin McCabe, Allison Nellis, Laurin Paradise and Chris Alen Sula. Panel presentation at 2016 Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference: Policing Crises Now. Villanova, PA. June 4, 2016.

“Visualizing the Invisible: Finding the Gaps in Discussion of Identities in LIS.” With Dinah Handel and Amy Lau. Lightning Presentation at Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. April 23, 2016 http://litwinbooks.com/2016abstracts.php

“Mapping Biases in Baseball Tales: The Black Sox Scandal.” Poster at iConference 2016: Partnership with Society. Philadelphia, PA. March 21-22, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89357

“Visualizing Identities in LIS Literature.” With Dinah Handel, Bianca Hezekiah, Cassie Hickman, Jessica Hochman, Amy Lau, Chris Alen Sula, Margie Ticknor, and Ruojing Zhang. Poster at iConference 2016: Partnership with Society. Philadelphia, PA. March 21-22, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89356

“A Survey of Digital Humanities Curricula at the Present Time.” With Phillip Cunningham and Chris Alen Sula. Long Paper at Keystone Digital Humanities Conference. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. July 24. 2015. http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/KeystoneDH/schedule.html

Panels, Lectures, and Workshops

“Personal Data // Personal Privacy.” Workshop open to the public, Personal Digital Archiving. 4 May 2019. https://library.pitt.edu/PDA19/Schedule

“Securing your Information: Privacy and Encryption Online.” Speaker/Facilitator. at the Digital Scholarship Common, Hillman Library, University of Pittsburgh. January 13, 2017. https://pitt.libcal.com/event/3040662

“Cataloging the UAG: the website, the database and online exhibitions” Speaker with Isabelle Chartier, Paulina Pardo, and Ahona Raka Sarkar. at History of Art and Architecture Colloquium Series, University of Pittsburgh. December 7, 2016.

“Librarians @ Pratt Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (Fall 2016)” Organizer and Instructor. at Pratt School of Information, New York, NY. October 29, 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Librarians@Pratt_Fall_2016

“Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: New York State Botanists” Invited Speaker and Instructor. at LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY. June 15, 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/NYBG_June2016