Directors
Walter Hawthorne, Michigan State University
Dean Rehberger, Michigan State University
Daryle Williams, University of California, Riverside
Current MSU Project Team
Ryan Carty, Data Team
Josh Christ, Programmer
Anthony D’Onofrio, Programmer
Lorenzo Duran Charris, Research Assistant
Rae Eagan, Data Team
Catherine Foley, Project Manager
Jeff Goeke-Smith, Head of Systems
Dakota Hendren, Research Assistant
Laura Large, Administrative Assistant
Sharon Leon (Corporation for Digital Scholarship), Consultant
Candace Keller, Consultant
Steven J. Niven (Harvard University), Stories Editor
Alicia Sheill, Data Manager
Nakia Parker, Consultant
Kristina Poznan, JSDP Editor
Funders & Donors
Harold and Frazine Henderson
Larry and Brenda Thompson
David Trebing
Mellon Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
New York Life Foundation
Collaborating Organizations
Blue Sky to Blueprint
Data Semantics Lab, Kansas State University
Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University
Michigan State University
OCLC
University of California, Riverside
University of Maryland
Wright State University
Wikimedia Deutschland
Former Team Members
Sophie Alegi, Research Assistant (2021-2023)
James Almeida, Research Assistant (2018-2019)
Kylene Cave, Research Assistant (2017-2019)
Elizabeth Donaldson, Data Integration (2020-2021)
Marisol Fila, Research Assistant (2020-2023)
Dave Glovsky, Research Assistant (2018-2019)
Seila Gonzalez Estrecha, Head of Software Development (2017-2022)
Michael Green, Communications and Engagement (2020-2022)
Quinn Hirt, Ontology Design Development (2018-2020)
Callie Hamm, Assistant (2019-2022)
Kim Hyeungsuk, Development (2019-2020)
Briona Simone Jones, Research Assistant (2020-2021)
Andrew Joye, Software Development (2017-2020)
Andrew Kim, Development (2019-2020)
LaTara McLemore, Research Assistant (2021)
Nicholas Mikelsavage, Software Development (2018-2019)
Jennifer Mojica Santana, Research Assistant (2021-2022)
Andrew Pines, Research Assistant (2022)
Drew Schineller, Development (2018-2020)
Matthew Schleusener, Software Development (2017-2019)
Marshanda Smith, Michigan State University (2022-2023)
Jada Similton, Research Assistant (2022-2023)
Duncan Tarr, Data Integration (2018-2020)
Elizabeth Timbs, Research Assistant (2018-2019)
Austin Truchan, Design (2018-2023)
Kayla Van Dyke, Administrative Assistant (2017-2023)
Ethan Watrall, Principal Investigator and User Experience Design (2017-2021)
Contributors
Heather Bollinger
Luísa Cruz, York University
Érika Melek Delgado, King’s College London
David Eltis, Emory University
Ina Fandrich, New Orleans African American Museum
Jessica Fletcher, Vanderbilt University
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
Daniel Genkins, Vanderbilt University
Kathe Hambrick, Amistad Research Center
Pascal Hitzler, Kansas State University
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Rutgers University
Paul LaChance, University of Ottawa
Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
Jeff Mixter, OCLC
Henry Lovejoy, University of Colorado
Paul Lovejoy, York University
Keith McClelland, University College, London
Jim Schindling, Vanderbilt University
Kara Schultz, Vanderbilt University
Cogan Shimizu, Wright State University
Angela Sutton, Vanderbilt University
Bruna Tine, York University
Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation Advisory Board
