MUSE Meets 2022

MUSE Meets 2022: Connect & Innovate, April 5-6, 2022

We are pleased to announce that MUSE Meets 2022, a virtual gathering focused on not-for-profit scholarly humanities and social science publishing, will take place on April 5-6, 2022! Registration for the virtual event is FREE, and all sessions will be open to any individuals with an interest in digital scholarship.

MUSE Meets 2022 will connect the scholarly publisher, librarian, and researcher communities. Project MUSE is in a unique position to work closely with so many stakeholders with a common interest in ensuring discoverability and engagement with non-profit scholarly publishing digital content. MUSE Meets 2022 is an opportunity for the voices in these communities to come together.

The 1.5 day event will feature general Project MUSE updates, including updates on key initiatives in journals, books, tech, and sales/marketing happening at MUSE, and panels featuring MUSE staff in conversation with librarians and other industry leaders about innovative digital initiatives, Open Access, and the sustainability of humanities and social sciences publishing in the aftermath of covid-19, among other topics.

We look forward to connecting and innovating together!

Registration is now closed.

Karin Wulf

Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian, John Carter Brown Library and Professor of History, Brown History

Karin Wulf is a historian of early America, the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, and Professor of History, Brown University. She is the author or editor of award-winning scholarly books and essays, and she regularly writes for general audience publications about history, archives, and the importance of humanities scholarship.

Simon Bell
Institutional Sales Manager, Bristol University Press

Simon Bell joined Bristol University Press (BUP) in November 2019 as Institutional Sales Manager with a remit that included supporting the development of BUP’s OA strategy. He has worked in the scholarly and academic publishing industry for over 20 years with a career that has included roles at Publons (part of Clarivate Analytics), Emerald Publishing, Manchester University Press, Liverpool University Press and Hodder Education. Simon has also been involved with a number of cross-publisher initiatives including working as part of the marketing launch team for the OAPEN project.

Elizabeth Brown
Publisher Relations Manager, Project MUSE

Liz has worked as an academic librarian at Rutgers University, University of Michigan, Harvard University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. She began working for Project MUSE in 1998 as a librarian at the Johns Hopkins University Libraries then moved full time to the JHU Press in 2001 to focus on content development, acquisitions, and publisher relations for Project MUSE.

Raym Crow
Managing Partner, Chain Bridge Group

Raym Crow has over 30 years’ experience in academic and scholarly publishing, specializing in developing practical models to sustain open resources, including open-access journals, monographs, digital humanities projects, and infrastructure services. His open model design work includes ‘Subscribe to Open’ with Annual Reviews, ‘Community Action Publishing’ with PLOS, and ‘Direct to Open’ with the MIT Press. Crow is managing partner of Chain Bridge Group, an independent consultancy to scholarly and professional societies, university presses, academic libraries, philanthropic foundations, and other nonprofit publishers. He is also a Senior Consultant for SPARC, where he focuses on collective models to support the provision of open resources.

Jennifer D'Urso
Manager, Electronic Production, Project MUSE

Jennifer D’Urso has been affiliated with Johns Hopkins University as an undergraduate, alumna, lecturer, contractor, and full-time employee long enough that her email alias is simply Jennifer@jhu.edu. She holds a B.A. in International Studies from Johns Hopkins and is ABD in Political Science at the University of Chicago, where her work focused on the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. She has been with Project MUSE for 11 years. In addition to overseeing her department’s day-to-day operations, she is working on a plan to future-proof MUSE’s production workflows.

Amanda (Nolan) Farber
Inside Sales and Library Support Specialist, Project MUSE

Amanda spent 10 years in real estate specializing in legal review and finance processing before joining MUSE almost 15 years ago. She began her journey at MUSE in Subscriber Support and joined the Sales team in 2019. The newly created position of Inside Sales and Library Support was a perfect opportunity for her to strengthen her existing skills in librarian outreach and her interest in data analysis. Amanda is an avid animal lover, yogi and spends much of her time off with her loved ones in Oregon.

Harriett Green
Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship and Technology Services, Washington University in St. Louis

Harriett Green is Associate University Librarian for the Digital Scholarship and Technology Services division at Washington University in St. Louis. She has presented and published widely on digital humanities, scholarly communications, and humanities research practices. Her research has been supported by grants awarded from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Phil Hearn
Publisher Relations Manager, Project MUSE

Phil Hearn has been with Project MUSE since 2011, when he joined the production team during the initial launch of books on the platform. As Ebook Production Coordinator, Phil helped guide tens of thousands of books through the MUSE production process. In 2018, he joined the Publisher Relations team, where he focuses on developing content and working closely with participating publishers in MUSE’s books programs.

Clare Hooper
Head of Journals, Liverpool University Press

Clare Hooper has been Head of Journals at Liverpool University Press since August 2015. She manages the strategic development of LUP's 42 academic journals in the humanities and social sciences, as well as commissioning new titles. She coordinates all journals publishing activity, including editorial, marketing, production, finance, fulfilment and distribution, online publication platform, and pricing.

Barbara Kline Pope
Director, Johns Hopkins University Press

Barbara Kline Pope is director of Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP), one of the nation’s largest university presses, annually publishing 150 new books and 101 journals across the life, health, and social sciences, public health, and humanities. At JHUP, she is also responsible for Project MUSE, an innovative aggregation of more than 70,000 books and 700 journals from 200 scholarly publishers and for Hopkins Fulfillment Services. Prior to her role at JHUP, Barbara was Executive Director for Communications and the National Academies Press (NAP) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. There she transformed NAP’s traditional print business model to one that is open-access and developed pioneering programs for engaging public audiences with science and engineering. She serves on the Advisory Board of TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), is a past-president of the Association of American University Presses, and holds an M.S. from the University of Maryland.

Arthur Levine
Distinguished Scholar of Higher Education, New York University

Arthur Levine is Distinguished Scholar of Higher Education at New York University. He is also President Emeritus of Teachers College, Columbia University and president Emeritus of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (now Institute on Citizens and Scholars). Levine has been a faculty member and chair of the Institute for Educational Management at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, president of Bradford College and senior Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation. He was also the founder and first president of the the Woodrow Wilson (now High Meadows) Graduate School of Teaching and Learning. Levine has authored 13 books, including The Great Upheaval: Higher Education’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future (9/21), and published scores of articles. Levine has received a number of awards including 26 honorary degrees and Carnegie, Fulbright, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Allison Levy
Digital Scholarship Editor, Brown University Library

Allison Levy is Digital Scholarship Editor for Brown University’s Digital Publications Initiative, generously launched with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and with further support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Serving in this role since 2017, Allison brings together key organizational, academic, and technological resources across the University to support new forms of faculty-driven scholarship, namely born-digital, multimodal works intended for publication by a university press. Beyond the Brown campus, she spearheads efforts at the industry level to advance conversations around the development, evaluation, and publication of digital scholarship in the humanities. Allison, who holds a PhD in history of art from Bryn Mawr College, has served as founding editor of two scholarly book series and currently serves as co-chair of the College Art Association’s Committee on Research and Scholarship.

Tom Lippincott
Assistant Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Tom Lippincott is the director of the Center for Digital Humanities and assistant professor with joint appointments in the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, the Department of Computer Science, and the Center for Language and Speech Processing. He holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics from Cambridge University, with expertise in unsupervised machine learning, lexical semantics, and information theory. He has been involved in numerous humanistic collaborations starting with his double-concentration in Philosophy and Computer Science at the University of Chicago, and now coordinates research projects that bridge a half dozen humanities departments, Computer Science, and the library system at Johns Hopkins. Prior to joining JHU he was a post-doctoral researcher at Columbia University, focused on modeling the spectrum of morphological processes observed across human languages. He is the Project Director in the proposed project.

Andrea Lopez
Director of Sales, Partnerships & Initiatives, Annual Reviews

Andrea Lopez is the Director of Sales, Partnerships & Initiatives at Annual Reviews where she is responsible for the sales and distribution of Annual Reviews journals. She has over 25 years of experience in academic publishing sales. She joined Annual Reviews in 1999 to manage the then new site license program and has enjoyed partnering with librarians and sales agents worldwide to build the program. Most recently she has been involved in developing and implementing the Subscribe to Open model for Annual Reviews and moderating the Subscribe to Open Community of Practice.

Angelia Ormiston
Director, Publishing Technologies, Project MUSE

Angie is the Director of Publishing Technologies at Project MUSE. Her current role allows her to fulfill her love of technology while making content discoverable, accessible, and available to many users around the world.

Antonia Pop
Vice President, University of Toronto Press

Antonia Pop has been working in scholarly publishing for more than a decade. As Vice President of the Journals Division at University of Toronto Press (UTP), Antonia works closely on developing and implementing business strategies aimed to support the Press’s mission of disseminating knowledge broadly for the benefit of society. Working with a team of talented publishing professionals, the Journals Division at UTP publishes 47 scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines, including a growing number of open access titles.

Wendy Queen
Director, Project MUSE

Wendy Queen is the Director of Project MUSE at Johns Hopkins University Press. She began her career focusing on the intersection of human interaction and technology. With a background in the humanities and a Masters in Information Arts and Technologies, Wendy first joined MUSE in a technical role. Through the years and many positions at MUSE, her leadership and contributions have ensured that MUSE continues to innovate across its platform and business models for the benefit of its partner publishers. Wendy has served on boards and committees for COUNTER, AAP, CrossRef, NISO, and ALPSP. She serves on the Scholarly Communications Group at Johns Hopkins University and is a member of the executive leadership at JHU Press. Wendy has served as a PI on grants from Mellon and the NEH as well as served as an advisor and reviewer of numerous grant proposals.

Lisa Marie Rhody
Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives and Director of Digital Fellowship Programs, CUNY Graduate Center

Lisa Marie Rhody serves as deputy director of Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center and hold faculty appointments in multiple programs, including Liberal Studies, Digital Humanities, Data Analysis and Visualization, and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. Her research interests include digital archives, text analysis, and 20th-century poetry and the visual arts, and her work has been published in Debates in the Digital Humanities, differences, The Journal of Digital Humanities, and PMLA. She is currently co-editing a volume titled Feminist DH for University of Illinois Press, and she is the director of the National Endowment for the Humanities project Expanding Digital Humanities Communities of Practice.

Charlotte Roh
Reference and Instruction Librarian, California State University San Marcos

Charlotte Roh is the Reference and Instruction Librarian at the California State University San Marcos. She has a background in academic publishing and works at the intersection of scholarly communications and social justice. Her most recent publication is the editorial “Owning the peer review process: If we have to do this work, we should own it” in College & Research Libraries News.

Melanie Schaffner
Director, Sales and Marketing, Project MUSE

Melanie Schaffner has been with Project MUSE since 1996, and currently leads the teams responsible for the strategic development, planning, and implementation of all sales and marketing activities for the organization. She has over thirty years of marketing, communications, and business development experience across several categories of intellectual property. Melanie holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a Master of Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Yasmeen Shorish
Head of Scholarly Communications Strategies / Associate Professor, James Madison University

Yasmeen Shorish is an Associate Professor, the Head of Scholarly Communications Strategies, and Special Advisor to the Dean on Equity Initiatives at James Madison University Libraries. Her research focuses on changes in scholarly communications, data ethics and privacy, and issues related to representation. She is part of the Mellon-funded Collections as Data: Part to Whole grant team and serves on the ACRL Board of Directors. She received her MSLIS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2011.

Ann Snoeyenbos
Manager, International Sales & Special Markets, Project MUSE

Ann Snoeyenbos has worked at Project MUSE in this role since 2004. Her responsibilities include Book and journal collection sales to academic libraries outside of US/Canada, as well as sales to schools, special, and public libraries worldwide. Before joining Project MUSE, Ann was Librarian for West European Social Science at New York University. Ann holds an MA in West European Studies, and an MLS in Library Science, both from Indiana University Bloomington.

Kelley Squazzo
Director of Publisher Relations & Content Development, Project MUSE

Kelley Squazzo is Director of Publisher Relations & Content Development for Project MUSE at Johns Hopkins University Press in Baltimore, Maryland. Kelley’s career spans both the non-profit and commercial publishing communities. Formerly, she was an acquisitions editor at JHUP acquiring books in public health, notably Reducing Gun Violence in America, which was published in just two weeks following the tragedy at Sandy Hook. In her leadership role at Project MUSE, she brings expertise in scholarly publishing strategies for books, journals, and born-digital works from both the publisher and librarian perspectives. She is a member of the AUPresses Committee on Open Access and is interested in how platforms like MUSE can play a leading role in developing sustainable and scalable OA business models for journals and monographs. Kelley holds a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Maryland and also teaches humanities classes at a local community college.

Doug Storm
Sales Manager, US/Canada, Project MUSE

Doug Storm has been with the Project MUSE Sales Department since 2013, coming on primarily to work with the newly launched book content. He has been involved in the sales of electronic content to libraries in all market iterations since 1995. Prior to that Doug taught high school English. He also hosts a community radio interview program for nearly a decade.

Lance Tieperman
Inside Sales and Library Support Specialist, Project MUSE

Lance has an Undergraduate Degree from Loyola University Baltimore, and a Master’s Degree from Johns Hopkins University. He has 13 years of Higher Education work experience, 10 in Procurement at JHU, and the last 3 years with Project MUSE. His time spent in Procurement provides him with a unique perspective, being able to see and understand both sides of the buyer/seller coin. He truly enjoys working hard to make other people’s jobs easier for them. Lance is married, has a 12-year-old son, and they recently adopted a momma cat and 3 of her kittens. He loves coffee, all kinds of music, rock and roll artist biographies, anything and everything sci-fi, going to Ocean City, Md, and he still hopes to become a professional snowboarder, despite being nearly 3 times older than everyone else who is.

Maurice York
Director of Library Initiatives, Big Ten Academic Alliance

As the Director of Library Initiatives for the Big Ten Academic Alliance, Maurice is responsible for coordinating collective action at scale amongst the research libraries of the BTAA towards their commitment to realizing an interdependent, networked future. The central initiative in Maurice's portfolio is the BIG Collection, a comprehensive strategy to strengthen an interdependent future for the 15 world-class research libraries of the BTAA by joining the separate collections into one collection, shared and fully networked, across all physical and digital domains.

In his previous position, Maurice was on the executive leadership team at the University of Michigan Library, where he led the technology division in developing and delivering cornerstone digital infrastructure projects for information discovery, digital preservation, and access. Before Michigan, Maurice was the Head of Information Technology at the NC State University Library, where he designed and led the implementation of the technology program for the James B. Hunt Jr. Library.

Please contact us with any questions about MUSE Meets 2022.

Project MUSE is committed to promoting the principles of Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (EJI). These values are intrinsic to our mission of serving the global academic and scholarly community, and as a virtual gathering of that community, MUSE Meets 2022 will foster an environment where diversity, dignity, and integrity are central to each interaction. While we encourage spirited and free intellectual discussions throughout this event, all such interactions must take place in the spirit of mutual respect and empathy.

To ensure that MUSE Meets 2022 is a positive and rewarding event for all panelists and attendees, we offer this Code of Conduct, adapted in part from the AUPresses Code of Conduct. Any conduct that runs counter to the principles of EJI or in any way threatens the safety or dignity of another participant will have their access revoked immediately.

Prohibited behaviors may include but are not limited to:

• Offensive or harassing behavior or language based on group status, including but not limited to race, ethnic background, national origin, age, religion, disability or medical condition, gender expression or identity, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, appearance, occupation or professional status, or veteran status;
• Sexual harassment, including unwelcome attention, stalking (physical or virtual), and non-consensual physical contact;
• Abusive, biased, or disrespectful conduct that has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with another person’s ability to participate in the event;
• Real or implied threats of physical or professional harm.

We thank all members of the Project MUSE community for making MUSE Meets 2022 a respectful, positive, professional event where scholarly communication can flourish.

Project MUSE respectfully acknowledges and gives thanks to the Piscataway Tribe, the Indigenous people who are traditional owners of the lands of the Chesapeake Bay region. We also acknowledge all Indigenous Peoples, the traditional owners of the lands and waters of the United States of America.