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The following bios highlight the academic backgrounds, achievements, and interests of our 2022 Slavic Library Institute Fellows.
Becky Craft (M.A. Student, M.L.S. Student) is a graduate student at Indiana University studying library science and Russian and East European Studies, with a focus on Ukraine. As a recipient of multiple FLAS awards, she has studied Ukrainian and Russian during IU’s Summer Language Workshop and during two academic years. She graduated summa cum laude from Wayland Baptist University with a B.A.S. in Linguistics after serving five years in the United States Marine Corps. She studied Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA and studied abroad in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Celia Emmelhainz is the anthropology and qualitative research librarian at UC Berkeley; she previously worked as a data librarian at Colby College and as a reference librarian at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. Emmelhainz has an MA in anthropology from Texas A&M and an MLS from Kent State University. Her recent research has focused on librarian career choices and staff development in the U.S. and in Central Asia.
Cammeron Girvin is a Librarian in the Southeast Europe Section at the Library of Congress, where he works on cataloging and acquisitions for resources from the Balkans. He received his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley in 2016, with an academic focus on South Slavic sociolinguistics and folklore.
Allison Graham is a Master of Information student at the University of Toronto. Her prior education includes a MA in Religious Studies from Indiana University and two summers at Middlebury Language Schools’ graduate Russian program. She currently works on web archiving and government information projects at the University of Toronto’s Robarts Library, and has previously been an instructor and teaching assistant in humanities departments at Corpus Christi College, Dalhousie University, and Indiana University. Her research interests include Russian religious thought, multilingual metadata, and community engagement with academic libraries.
Karen Kadohiro Lauer is a Russian Studies Librarian and Hawaiian and Pacific Collections Archivist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) Hamilton Library. She has been working with the Russian Bibliographer in the Russian Northeast Asia Collection since 2020. She is a graduate of the UHM Master of Library and Information Science and Anthropology programs. .
Marija Kostić received her Musicology Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. From 2019 to 2021 she was a Music History and Literature and Library and Information Science graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is employed as a music history and theory teacher and music librarian at the School for Musically Gifted Children in Ćuprija, Serbia (2018-2019 and 2021- ). Her paper ,,The legacy of Dragutin Čolić at the library of The School for Musically Gifted Children in Ćuprija’’ will be presented at the IAML 2022 Prague congress.
Brendan Nieubuurt, PhD, MLS. Librarian for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies, University of Michigan. Brendan earned his PhD in Slavic Languages from Columbia University and started as SEEES Librarian at U-M the following year. While he most enjoys offering direct research support to students and faculty, he’s also interested in resource digitization, the challenges of collecting and making accessible historical newspapers, and the unique problems, opportunities, and ethics of SEEES resource availability on the open web.
Kirsten Painter received her PhD in Russian Literature from Columbia University and her MLIS from the University of Washington. Within librarianship, her specialties are Slavic Studies, Special Collections, Digital Humanities, Museology, and children’s literature. Before the pandemic, she served as the Special Collections & Digital Humanities Librarian at St. Paul University (Ottawa, Ontario). She has published a book on the history of poetry (“Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism,” Stanford UP), and a chapbook of her own poems (“Solitude’s Companions”). She has also worked for several years as a freelance editor and indexer for institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Her digital portfolio is available at: https://express.adobe.com/page/11xZwpzVkEmbd/.
