Meet Your Regional Representatives
Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 3 | Region 4 | Region 5
Ericka Findley | John Fudrow | Katherine Johnson | Laura Kotti | Anne Morrow | Denise Stanton | G.W. Swicord | Jennifer Wang | Justin White
Region 1
Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington
Denise Stanton
Denise_Gibbons@byu.edu
Denise Stanton has worked at Brigham Young University for 36 years, 35 of which in graduate education. She has served as the arbitrator for theses/dissertations which are embargoed due to patent and/or export control purposes for 12 years and final ETD approver for three years. She looks forward to collaborating with her regional representative cohorts as well as the USETDA members as a whole to brainstorm holistic approaches to the ETD process.
Ericka Findley
ericka.findley@utah.edu
Ericka Findley is a manuscript editor for The University of Utah’s Graduate School. One of her passion projects is working towards making born-digital manuscripts more accessible to better meet the needs of all. She also is a huge fan of alternative forms of scholarship that might challenge our notions of what a thesis or dissertation looks like.
Katherine Johnson
kjohnson@caltech.edu
Katherine Johnson is the author services and thesis librarian at the California Institute of Technology. She has been involved with electronic theses and repositories since 2002 – her work includes working with students and faculty on copyright concerns and potential embargoes for theses and dissertations, and managing several Caltech repositories and their content. She has experience in migrating repository platforms, and in expanding functionality within current ones.
Anne Morrow
anne.morrow@utah.edu
Anne Morrow is the Digital Scholarship Librarian for the Marriott Library at the University of Utah. Anne oversees the institutional repository and library-hosted publishing services for the campus community. Anne has a background in digital libraries and cataloging.
Region 2
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin
- We are currently seeking representatives from Graduate Schools and Libraries who live in region 2. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Emily Wuchner.
Region 3
Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming
Jennifer Wang
jennifer.wang@colostate.edu
Jennifer is a Student Services Coordinator in the Graduate School at Colorado State University. She is the ETD Coordinator, and is responsible for managing the Thesis/Dissertation Submission forms, all submissions to ProQuest, and the review and approval of the ETDs. She also is a credential analyst for International Admissions, and is involved in many of the processes that get graduate students from matriculation to graduation.
Justin White
Justin.white@utrgv.edu
Justin M. White is a Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is responsible for the institutional repository at UTRGV and faculty outreach on issues of publishing and Open Educational Resources. He has previously written on academic piracy, concerning its history and relevance to the current serials crisis in the age of Sci-Hub. Justin has a background in American labor history in the early modern era.
Region 4
Alabama, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia
Laura Kotti
kotti@mailbox.sc.edu
Laura Kotti is the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Coordinator for the University South Carolina Graduate School. She holds Master’s degrees in American literature and Library and Information Science from the University of South Carolina. She has 10 years of teaching experience, and in 2017, she received the Two Thumbs Up Award from the UofSC Student Disability Services for her dedication to students with disabilities. In her free time, she enjoys playing second violin with the Lake Murray Symphony Orchestra.
G.W. Swicord
gwswicord@ufl.edu
G.W.’s interest in digital content began before the .com era and led him to a Bachelor’s in political science from New College of Florida, with a focus on bureaucracy and copyright, and a Master’s in government from UT Austin, with a focus on the legislative process that led to HIPPA. He has a background in writing and editing instructional and marketing materials for Microsoft products and worked for several years as an adjunct professor at Santa Fe College. Since being hired as an assistant for the UF Libraries long-term dissertation scanning project, his duties have expanded to include management of all incoming digital terminal projects in addition to the nearly-complete dissertation project and the nascent thesis digitization project.
Region 5
Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
John Fudrow
jfudrow@pitt.edu
John Fudrow is the Repository Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh in the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing. He is responsible for maintaining and managing the institutional repository (D-Scholarship@Pitt). He is also manager for the ETD Support Services of the university. In this role he creates and updates the templates used for ETD creation, provides instructional workshops for students and staff, fields ETD related questions, and serves as a part of the university ETD Process Group, which makes policy and process decisions for ETD approval. He has been ETD Support manager since 2018 but has a background in Studio Arts and Graphic Design.