Team

Project Team, Haverford College, Pennsylvania

  • Alex Galarza, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation and Latin American & Caribbean Studies
  • Brie Gettleson, Research and Instruction Librarian
  • Andy Janco, Digital Scholarship Librarian
  • Krista Oldham, College Archivist
  • Emily Thaisrivongs, Metadata Librarian
  • Mike Zarafonetis, Coordinator for Digital Scholarship and Research Services
  • Terry Snyder, Librarian of the College

Project Team, Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo, Guatemala City

  • Carlos Juárez, Coordinator of the GAM Digital Archive
  • Daniel Alvarado, Coordinator of Digitization
  • Pablo Galeano, Journalism and Communication Student

Digital Scholarship Compañerxs

  • Natalia Mora ‘21 – Natalia is a senior anthropology student with concentrations in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies as well as Latin American and Iberian studies. Their research has focused on United States foreign policy and nonviolent resistance through art. As a Colombian born American citizen, Natalia has seen the effects of US foreign policy in their home country and is interested in seeing how it parallels events in other countries around the world. They are doing research on collective and historical memory in Spain using what they have learned while working on the project. 
  • Chloe Juriansz ‘21 –Chloe is a senior anthropology major, with a minor in Spanish and concentration in Latin American Studies. She works both as a Digital Scholarship compañera in the libraries and as a Research Assistant for Brie Gettleson. During her time on the project, she has worked on transcriptions for the public site and on a process of database codification to produce a demographic analysis of who is in the archive. In addition to her work with the GAM project, Chloe also volunteers with Puentes de Salud, works as a Teaching Assistant for the Spanish Department, and works as a Program Support Specialist for Centro de la Familia de Utah.
  • Federico Perelmuter ‘21 – Fede is a senior English major and Philosophy minor with an interest in the literatures and cultures of the southern cone of Latin America in transnational perspective, and with particular emphasis on technological and scientific discourses in relationship to visual/material processes of subjectivation. Outside of the GAM project, he is research assistant for Kimberly Benston and does work in late 19th century English evolutionary and scientific thought in relationship to HG Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau. He is also a co-editor of Shoegazing Magazine, and has contributed articles to the Clerk and elsewhere. His thesis deals with the foundational work Cane by Jean Toomer, setting it in the context of early Black urban experience in Washington DC and Chicago.
  • Saúl Ontiveros ‘22 – Saúl is a junior History-Spanish major and Health Studies minor. He works within several digital humanities projects seeking to elevate and expand the histories of immigration, state violence, and indigenous language/knowledge in Mexico and Guatemala. As an Undergraduate Mellon Mays fellow, Saúl is researching the built environment of the U.S-Mexican border to follow the historical presence of drug trade organizations in border town communities. He is also a research assistant for Latin American-Iberian Studies department and a teaching assistant for an indigenous Zapotec language class. 

Past Digital Scholarship Compañerxs

  • Rosemary Cohen ‘18
  • Ashley Guzman ‘19
  • Zakkai Markowitz ‘21
  • Tania Ortega ‘19 
  • Rafael Rodríguez-Charris ‘20
  • Mariana Ramírez ‘20 
  • Luis Contreras-Orendain ‘21