Curriculum Vitae

This version mostly includes publications and conference participation. To view service and other activities, download a copy of my full CV. You can also view my profile in Google Scholar.

EDUCATION

M.A., Liberal Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, 2016. Thesis: “Yellow Dust Abode: The Hawley-Suski Letters, 1942–45”
M.S., Library and Information Science, Pratt Institute, with distinction, 2012. Practicum: “Processing Special Collections: Blurring Boundaries, Backlogs and Intra-Institutional Cooperation, or, What Do We Do with All This Stuff?”
B.A., Film Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 2000

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2024-present	Head of Archives and Special Collections, Associate Professor, Mina Rees Library, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2017-2024	Dissertation Research Librarian, Assistant Professor, Mina Rees Library, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2019-2020	Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute School of Information
2016-2017	Dissertation Research Librarian, Substitute Assistant Professor, Mina Rees Library, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2015-2016	Interim Dissertation Assistant, Mina Rees Library, The Graduate Center, CUNY

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Shirazi, R. (2022). Libraries and the problem of DH discovery. In J. O’Sullivan (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Forthcoming.
Shirazi, R. and Zweibel, S. (2020). Documenting digital projects: Instituting guidelines for digital dissertations and theses in the humanities. College and Research Libraries 81(7), 1123.
Drabinski, E., Geraci, A., and Shirazi, R. (Eds.). (2019). Labor in Academic Libraries (special issue). Library Trends 68(2).
Shirazi, R. (2018). The doctoral dissertation and scholarly communication: Adapting to changing publication practices among graduate students. College and Research Libraries News 79(1), 34.
Shirazi, R. (2017). Reproducing the academy: Librarianship and the question of service in the digital humanities. In J. Sayers (Ed.), Making things and drawing boundaries (pp. 86-94). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Shirazi, R. (2015). A “Digital Wasteland”: Modernist periodical studies, digital remediation, and copyright. In D. Mueller (Ed.), Creating Sustainable Community: The Proceedings of the ACRL 2015 Conference, March 25-28, Portland, Oregon. Paper presented at ACRL 2015, Portland, Oregon, 25-28 March (pp. 192-199). Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries.
Coble, Z., Potvin, S., Shirazi, R. (2014). Process as product: Scholarly communication experiments in the digital humanities. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 2(3).

DIGITAL PROJECTS

Debates in DH Digital Project Index, with Stephen Zweibel, Patricia Belen, and Atilio Barreda. Project Co-director (2022–present).
CUNY Digital History Archive, with Stephen Brier, Andrea Ades Vasquez, and Marco Battistella. Project Director (2022–present).
dh+lib: where the digital humanities and librarianship meet, with Sarah Potvin, Zach Coble, Caro Pinto, John Russell, Patrick Williams, Caitlin Christian-Lamb. Founding Co-editor (2012-2018).

INVITED TALKS

“Reproductive Labor and Digital Technology”, The Demos Project “People in Data” Webinar series. Florida State University. October 18, 2019.
“Unseen and Unremarked Upon: The Reproductive Labor of Librarians in the Academy”. Keynote speaker, Eastern New York/ACRL Spring Conference. Siena College. May 23, 2017.
“Digital Pasts and Disciplinary Futures: Charting the Course of Librarians in DH”. 2^nd Annual Digital Humanities Address. Pratt School of Information. April 6, 2017.
“Conditions of (In)Visibility: Cultivating a Documentary Impulse in the Digital Humanities”. Keynote speaker, Invisible Work in the Digital Humanities Symposium. Florida State University. November 17-18, 2016.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Papers
2022	“Towards a Counter-Institutional Archive: Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing the Histories of the City University of New York.” Digital Library Federation Forum (October 10-12), Baltimore, MD.
2018	“Not Just Degree-Seekers: Graduate Students as Scholarly Contributors.” With J. Cirasella. Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students (March 22-23), Kennesaw, GA. Postponed due to weather; delivered as webinar in December 2018.
2018	“Rethinking Value in Academic Libraries.” Metropolitan New York Library Council Symposium—Libraries in the Context of Capitalism (February 1-2), New York, NY.
2015	“‘A Digital Wasteland’: Modernist Periodical Studies, Digital Remediation, and Copyright.” ACRL 2015 (March 25-28), Portland, OR.
Panels
2021	“Libraries and the Work of White Supremacy.” CUNY Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Conference (April 15-16), New York, NY. Panelist
2020	“Ethics and Ed Tech at CUNY During and Beyond the Pandemic.” CUNY IT Conference (December 3-4, 2020), New York, NY. Panelist.
2017	“Amplifying CUNY Voices with CUNY Academic Works.” CUNY IT Conference (November 30-December 1), New York, NY. Panelist.
2017	“Who Steers the Boat? On Women in a Feminized Profession.” ACRL 2017 (March 22-25), Baltimore, MD. Panelist.
2014	“Experimental Scholarly Publishing: Building New Models with Distributed Communities of Practice.” Digital Library Federation Forum 2014 (October 27-29), Atlanta, GA. Panelist, in absentia.
2014	“Digital Humanities and Academic Libraries: Practice and Theory, Power and Privilege.” Organized by the Women and Gender Studies Section of ACRL at ALA 2014 (June 27-July 2), Las Vegas, NV. Invited panelist.
Workshops and Other Sessions
2022	“Debates in Digital Humanities Project Index.” Lightning talk, co-presenter. Digital Library Federation Forum 2022 (October 10-12), Baltimore, MD.
2018	“Building Capacity for Digital Library Services When They Won’t Even Hire a Metadata Librarian.” Digital Library Federation Forum 2018 (October 14-18), Las Vegas, NV.
2016	“Cite this Repository!” Co-organized lunchtime working session. Digital Library Federation Forum 2016 (November 7-9), Milwaukee, WI.
2016	“Translation Hack-a-thon!: Applying the Translation Toolkit to a Global dh+lib.” Co-organized pre-conference workshop. Digital Humanities 2016 (July 11-16), Kraków, Poland.
Posters
2018	“Snapshots, Breadcrumbs, and Coercive Documentation: Institutionalizing Digital Preservation Back-up Plans for Student Work.” Poster presented at Digital Preservation 2018 (October 18-19), Las Vegas, NV.
2016	“Crafting the Digital Front Matter: Guidelines for Depositing Digital Dissertations.” With S. Zweibel. Poster presented at the U.S. Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA) Conference 2016 (September 25-28), Columbus, OH.
2016	“Scaling and Diversifying at the Intersection of Digital Humanities and Libraries: An Update from dh+lib.” With S. Potvin, J. Russell, C. Pinto, C. Christian-Lamb, P. Williams, Z. Coble, T. Padilla. Poster presented at 2016 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (May 24-26), Austin, TX.
2015	“PressForward Develops New Models of Scholarly Communication.” With J. Fragaszy Troyano, L. Rhody, Z. Coble, S. Potvin, C. Pinto, and K. Nguyen. Poster presented at ACRL 2015 (March 25-28), Portland, OR.
2014	“Enhancing Scholarly Communication and Communities with the PressForward Plugin.” With J. Troyano, L. Rhody, Z. Coble, S. Potvin, C. Pinto, and K. Nguyen. Poster presented at Digital Humanities 2014 (July 7-12), Lausanne, Switzerland.
2013	“dh+lib: Behind the Scenes.” With S. Potvin and Z. Coble. Poster presented at Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum 2013 (November 4-7), Austin, TX.

GRANTS, AWARDS & HONORS

2023	Henry Wasser Award for Outstanding Research for Assistant Professors, CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences
2022	PSC-CUNY Research Award # 65481-00 53, Traditional B. “Activist Visions: A History of Librarians at the City University of New York.” ($5905)
2022	Archival Needs Assessment Grant, Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York (in kind)
2015	Director’s Scholarship, Rare Book School, University of Virginia
2015	Early-Career Librarian Scholarship, Rare Books & Manuscripts Section Awardee, ACRL 2015 Conference
2015	LACUNY Professional Development Committee Travel Grant, Library Association of the City University of New York
2014-15	HASTAC Scholar. Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory
2012	Attendance Scholarship, 53^rd Annual Preconference of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
2012	Pratt Circle Award (for academic achievement), Pratt Institute