Fellowship Programs

Since 2017, the University of Idaho Library has supported over 80 students and faculty through fellowship programs that foster experiential learning and real-world impact.

Our fellows have created innovative digital scholarship projects, developed open educational resources that save students textbook costs, and built digital collections that preserve and share Idaho's cultural heritage.

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Featured Fellowship Projects

Program Impact

103

Total Fellowships

Since 2017

Unique Projects

Digital collections, websites, OER

2545

Students Impacted

Through OER initiatives

$733K+

Student Savings

In textbook costs

Explore Fellows and Their Work

Adam Sowards

Faculty • History

2 Projects:

• Idaho Wilderness and Democracy: Experiments in Visualizing Citizen Testimony
• Initial Develpment for Idaho Wilderness Hearings work

2017, 2018

Adam Sowards

Faculty in History

Fellow's Profile

Fellowship Projects

Idaho Wilderness and Democracy: Experiments in Visualizing Citizen Testimony

2017

Visualizing and analyzing citizen testimony via textual analysis of hearings documents from the Wilderness Act and the Roadless Area Review and Evaluation.

CDIL Digital Scholarship Fellowship View Project

Initial Develpment for Idaho Wilderness Hearings work

2018

Visualizing and analyzing citizen testimony via textual analysis of hearings documents from the Wilderness Act and the Roadless Area Review and Evaluation.

CDIL Faculty Development Fellowship View Project

Zachary Turpin

Faculty • English

2 Projects:

• Initial development for Lost Lit Lab
• Lost Lit Lab

2017, 2018

Zachary Turpin

Faculty in English

Fellow's Profile

Fellowship Projects

Initial development for Lost Lit Lab

2017

Searching out lost literature via early digital media and programmatic searching techniques

CDIL Faculty Development Fellowship View Project

Lost Lit Lab

2018

Searching out lost literature via early digital media and programmatic searching techniques

CDIL Digital Scholarship Fellowship View Project

Matthew Fox-Amato

Faculty • History

Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium

2017

Kristine Levan

Faculty • Culture, Society and Justice

2 Projects:

• Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium
• CRIM 329: Homicide

2017, 2024

Kristine Levan

Faculty in Culture, Society and Justice

Fellow's Profile

Fellowship Projects

Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium

2017

In past years CDIL has co-hosted a week-long Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium with Washington State University's Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation (CDSC). This program is currently on hiatus.

CDIL Faculty Development Fellowship View Project

CRIM 329: Homicide

2024

This fellowship will focus on identifying new Open and other zero cost solutions for CRIM 329 Homicide. In addition to seeking out an open textbook, this fellowship will help expand the classes content to support it's new designation at a 400 level.

ThinkOpen Fellowship

80 students impacted • $10,240.00 saved

Corey Oglesby

Graduate • English

CTRL+Shift

2017

Lauren Westerfield

Graduate • English

CTRL+Shift

2017

Sean Butterfield

Faculty • Lionel Hampton School of Music

2 Projects:

• MUSC 241/242 Theory of Music III
• MusC 241 / 242 Music Theory

2017, 2018

Sean Butterfield

Faculty in Lionel Hampton School of Music

Fellow's Profile

Fellowship Projects

MUSC 241/242 Theory of Music III

2017

Create on original, interactive, digital textbook to teach students music theory.

ThinkOpen Fellowship

24 students impacted • $7,440.00 saved

MusC 241 / 242 Music Theory

2018

Customizing an previously created interactive, digital textbook to teach students music theory.

ThinkOpen Fellowship

25 students impacted • $7,750.00 saved

Kacy Pula

Faculty • Psychology & Communication

PSYC 101 Introduction to Psychology

2017

Ingrid Spence

Faculty • Education

EDCI 201 Contexts of Education

2017

Judith Terrio

Faculty • Mathematics

MATH 123 Mathematics Applied to the Modern World

2017

Rebecca Scofield

Faculty • History

Voices of Gay Rodeo

2018

Sarah Nelson

Faculty • Modern Languages & Cultures

Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium

2018

Renae Campbell

Graduate • Culture, Society and Justice

Historical Japanese Comparative Ceramics Collection (HJCCC)

2018

Denessy Rodriguez

Undergraduate • Culture, Society and Justice

Closure of Syringa

2018

Peter Allen

Faculty • Chemistry

CHEM 253 Quantitative Analysis

2018

Rebekkah Boysen-Taylor

Faculty • Curriculum and Instruction

EDCI 328 Idaho Histories

2018

Ross Miller

Graduate • Physics

PHYS 111 General Physics I

2018

Thomas Ptak

Faculty • Geography

GEOG 165 Introduction to Human Geography

2018

Miranda Wilson

Faculty • Lionel Hampton School of Music

2 Projects:

• MusC 239/240 Aural Skills
• School of Cello Playing: A new translation of Carl Davidoff's Violoncell-Schule

2018, 2022

Miranda Wilson

Faculty in Lionel Hampton School of Music

Fellow's Profile

Fellowship Projects

MusC 239/240 Aural Skills

2018

Creating a custom music theory textbook.

ThinkOpen Fellowship

20 students impacted • $2,600.00 saved

School of Cello Playing: A new translation of Carl Davidoff's Violoncell-Schule

2022

https://idaho.pressbooks.pub/violoncellschule/

CDIL Faculty Development Fellowship View Project

Shenghan Xu

Faculty • Business and Economics

OM 370/470 Process Management / Supply Chain Management

2018

Mitchell Gibbs

Undergraduate • Lionel Hampton School of Music

Leonard Feather Blindfold Tests

2019

Katrina Eichner

Faculty • Culture, Society and Justice

2 Projects:

• Idaho Public Archaeology
• Initial development for Idaho Public Archaeology project

2019

Katrina Eichner

Faculty in Culture, Society and Justice

Fellow's Profile

Fellowship Projects

Idaho Public Archaeology

2019

Web and data-based exploration of public archaeology data from a Moscow, Idaho archaeological dig at Moscow High School.

CDIL Digital Scholarship Fellowship View Project

Initial development for Idaho Public Archaeology project

2019

Exhibit sharing the findings of archaeological digs at Moscow High School, emphasizing public engagement in archaeology.

CDIL Faculty Development Fellowship View Project

Erin James

Faculty • English

Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium

2019

Ricky Baldridge

Graduate • English

Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium

2019

Kit Stokes

Graduate • English

Potlatch Historical Society Collection

2019

Rylee Robertson

Undergraduate • Business and Economics

University of Idaho: Then and Now

2019

Vanessa Anthony-Stevens

Faculty • Curriculum & Instruction

EDCI 302 EDCI 328

2019

Vanessa Anthony-Stevens

Faculty in Curriculum & Instruction

Fellow's Profile

Fellowship Projects

EDCI 302 EDCI 328

2019

Dr. Anthony-Stevens will develop a resource tentatively title Honoring Indigenous Histories: A Reader for Teachers. This resource will offer an overview of Indigenous Histories in the US, foundations of tribal sovereignty and constructive advice on ways for teachers to respect and engage with Indigenous communities in their praxis. This title will place a special focus on Indigenous communities of the Greater Pacific Northwest.

ThinkOpen Fellowship

100 students impacted • $10,000.00 saved

Katie Blevins

Faculty • Journalism & Mass Media

JAMM 458: Public Relations Research and Case Studies

2019

Rebekka Boysen-Taylor

Faculty • Curriculum and Instruction

2 Projects:

• EDCI 328 Elementary Social Studies Methods, EDCI 302 Teaching Culturally Diverse Learners, EDCI 432 Secondary Social Studies Methods Course,
• EDCI 328, EDCI 302, EDCI 432, EDCI 463

2019, 2020

Rebekka Boysen-Taylor

Faculty in Curriculum and Instruction

Fellow's Profile

Fellowship Projects

EDCI 328 Elementary Social Studies Methods, EDCI 302 Teaching Culturally Diverse Learners, EDCI 432 Secondary Social Studies Methods Course,

2019

Working in close collaboration with the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation, Boysen-Taylor will create a series of “rehistory-ing” lesson plans centered on the life of Anna Murray Douglass, the wife of Frederick Douglass and a formidable civil rights champion in her own right.

ThinkOpen Fellowship

75 students impacted • $7,500.00 saved

EDCI 328, EDCI 302, EDCI 432, EDCI 463

2020

Boysen-Taylor will develop materials that support creating open assignments for elementary educators.

ThinkOpen Fellowship

100 students impacted • $10,000.00 saved

Xiao Hu

Faculty • Architecture

Arch 483 Urban Theories & Issues

2019

Ashley Kerr

Faculty • Global Studies

SPAN/LAS 306: Culture and Institutions of Latin America

2019

Ashley Kerr

Faculty in Global Studies

Fellow's Profile

Fellowship Projects

SPAN/LAS 306: Culture and Institutions of Latin America

2019

Dr. Kerr will develop a collection of openly licenses materials (OER) to create a culturally responsive reader for Spanish 306 Culture and Institutions of Latin America, which covers pre-Colombian to current Latin American History. This reader will include culturally responsive and engaged content to better serve the diverse backgrounds of our U of I students.

ThinkOpen Fellowship

90 students impacted • $9,000.00 saved

Kathryn Pawelko

Graduate • English

English 101, English 102, English 109

2019

Spencer Manning

Graduate • Lionel Hampton School of Music

Oral History Interviews with Lynn "Doc" Skinner

2020

Sarah Campbell

Faculty • Theatre

2 Projects:

• Initial development for digital dramaturgy
• Digital Dramaturgy

2020, 2021

Sarah Campbell

Faculty in Theatre

Fellow's Profile

Fellowship Projects

Initial development for digital dramaturgy

2020

Annotation and interpretation framework for dramaturgical work

CDIL Faculty Development Fellowship View Project

Digital Dramaturgy

2021

Annotation and interpretation framework for dramaturgical work

CDIL Digital Scholarship Fellowship View Project

Jack Kredell

Graduate • English

3 Projects:

• Storying Extinction
• Keeping Watch
• Wilderness/Environmental Archive Analysis and Survey

2020, 2021, 2025

Jack Kredell

Graduate in English

Fellowship Projects

Storying Extinction

2020

Storying Extinction: Responding to the Loss of North Idaho’s Mountain Caribou is a multidisciplinary digital humanities project that represents community response to the recent extirpation (2019) of southern mountain caribou from the South Selkirk mountains of North Idaho—the last caribou to inhabit the coterminous United States.

CDIL Graduate Student Fellowship View Project

Keeping Watch

2021

A “deep” spatial, historical, and biocultural setting of the fire lookout tower in Idaho

Library Seed Grant View Project

Wilderness/Environmental Archive Analysis and Survey

2025

Creation of a high-level survey of current Special Collections holdings that align with a potential Wilderness/Environmental Archive

Lynn and Dennis Baird Fellowship

Chris Lamb

Graduate • English

2 Projects:

• Storying Extinction
• Keeping Watch

2020, 2021

Chris Lamb

Graduate in English

Fellowship Projects

Storying Extinction

2020

Multidisciplinary, "deep map" essaying of the extirpation of North Idaho's Caribou population

CDIL Graduate Student Fellowship View Project

Keeping Watch

2021

A “deep” spatial, historical, and biocultural setting of the fire lookout tower in Idaho

Library Seed Grant View Project

Samson Matthews

Undergraduate • Lionel Hampton School of Music

What Glass Shards Are Called

2020

R.A. Borrelli

Faculty • Nuclear Engineering and Industrial Management

NE450: Principles of Nuclear Engineering

2020

Helen Brown

Faculty • Movement Sciences

2 Projects:

• MVSC 486/586- Healthy Active Lifestyles Assessment and Intervention
• MVSC 486 and MVSC 586- Healthy Active Lifestyles Assessment and Program Planning

2020, 2021

Helen Brown

Faculty in Movement Sciences

Fellow's Profile

Fellowship Projects

MVSC 486/586- Healthy Active Lifestyles Assessment and Intervention

2020

Dr. Brown will create an open source workbook to support students in developing their skills to develop and implement public health promotion projects.

ThinkOpen Fellowship

35 students impacted • $3,500.00 saved

MVSC 486 and MVSC 586- Healthy Active Lifestyles Assessment and Program Planning

2021

Creating an interactive workbook to support student progress over the semester.

ThinkOpen Fellowship

20 students impacted • $3,000.00 saved

Sarah Bush

Faculty • Agriculture

AgEd 251, CLDR 480, AgEd 450/550/CLDR 450

2020

Janine Darragh

Faculty • Curriculum and Instruction

2 Projects:

• EDCI 448/548: Introduction to ENL in the K-12 Schools
• OER for outreach, service, and research in conjunction with English teachers from crisis contexts around the world.

2020, 2021

Janine Darragh

Faculty in Curriculum and Instruction

Fellow's Profile

Fellowship Projects

EDCI 448/548: Introduction to ENL in the K-12 Schools

2020

Dr. Darragh will create an open syllabus that transitions EDCI 448/548 from a traditional text to a no-cost syllabus using open materials and course reserves resources.

ThinkOpen Fellowship

60 students impacted • $6,000.00 saved

OER for outreach, service, and research in conjunction with English teachers from crisis contexts around the world.

2021

Create fresh OER entries on OERCommons to transition content from a locked in app to a more accessible format.

ThinkOpen Fellowship

100 students impacted • $3,000.00 saved

Leontina Hormel

Faculty • Culture, Society & Justice

WGSS 201: Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

2020

Destiny Angel-Hubble

Undergraduate • Lionel Hampton School of Music

Ella Fitzgerald Collection

2021

Jenn Ladino

Faculty • English

Keeping Watch

2021

Cady Favazzo

Graduate • English

Vandal Poem of the Day

2021

Liam Marchant

Undergraduate • Lionel Hampton School of Music

Ghana Music and Dance Initiative

2021

Erin Geslani

Graduate • Cultural Anthropology

Process the League of Women Voters of Moscow records

2021

Michael Decker

Graduate • English

Keeping Watch

2021

Bert Baumgaertner

Faculty • Politics and Philosophy

2 Projects:

• PHIL 312: Intro to Decision Theory
• PHIL 312: Intro to Decision Theory

2021, 2022

Bert Baumgaertner

Faculty in Politics and Philosophy

Fellow's Profile

Fellowship Projects

PHIL 312: Intro to Decision Theory

2021

Writing a complete open text on Decision Theory.

ThinkOpen Fellowship

30 students impacted • $3,000.00 saved

PHIL 312: Intro to Decision Theory

2022

Revising and improving interactivity on a complete open text on Decision Theory.

ThinkOpen Fellowship

30 students impacted • $3,000.00 saved

Bert Baumgartner

Faculty • Politics and Philosphy

Decision Theory

2021

Matthew Grindal

Faculty • Culture, Society & Justice

CRIM 101: Introduction to Criminology and CRIM 420: Substance Use and Society

2021

Lauren McCleary

Faculty • Art and Architecture

ART 100: Introduction to Art

2021

Russell Meeuf

Faculty • Journalism and Mass Media

FTV 100: Film History & Aesthetics

2021

Esther David

Undergraduate • Education and English

Doc Cheatham Collection

2022

Dusty Fleener

Graduate • History

Process the Palouse Empire Science Fiction Association records

2022

Floriana Tulli

Graduate • English

2 Projects:

• Process the Women in Natural Resources collection
• Wolf Reintroduction

2022, 2023

Floriana Tulli

Graduate in English

Fellowship Projects

Process the Women in Natural Resources collection

2022

A second award was given in 2022 because there was a strong candidate pool. The Strong family provided some additional funding that, combined with Dean’s Excellence Funds, supported a project from Floriana Tulli to process the Women in Natural Resources collection. She processed 8 cubic feet of materials to create this finding aid: https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv702668. She also created a digital collection: https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/winr/.

Gary and Carolyn Strong Special Collections Fellowship View Project

Wolf Reintroduction

2023

A multimodal essay exploring various dimensions surrounding the wolf controversy: a coalescence of regional viewpoints and events stemming from the initial release of wolves in 1995.

CDIL Graduate Student Fellowship View Project

Milo Muise

Graduate • English

Main Street Video

2022

Aleksandra Hollingshead

Faculty • Curriculum and Instruction Department Chair, Special Education

EDSP 448/548

2022

Alyson Roy

Faculty • History

HIST 344: The Roman Empire

2022

Nick Koenig

Graduate • Earth & Spatial Sciences

2 Projects:

• The Chestnut Collective
• CORS 246: Catalyzing Change: Co-Creating Climate Futures

2023, 2024

Nick Koenig

Graduate in Earth & Spatial Sciences

Fellow's Profile

Fellowship Projects

The Chestnut Collective

2023

A sociocultural and sociopolitical research project tracking the blight and subsequent loss of the American Chestnut on Appalachian families and communities.

CDIL Graduate Student Fellowship View Project

CORS 246: Catalyzing Change: Co-Creating Climate Futures

2024

Creating a zero cost syllabus for CORS 246 - Catalyzing Change: Co-Creating Climate Futures

ThinkOpen Fellowship

100 students impacted • $5,690.00 saved

Anne Yen

Graduate • Fish & Wildlife Sciences

Western and Clark's Grebe Breeding Lakes of North America

2023

Grace Gardiner

Undergraduate • Culture, Society and Justice

Work on the Latah County Oral History Collection

2023

Daniel Vargas

Graduate • History

Process donation of materials related to the Weiser Old Time Fiddle Festival

2023

Caroline Ludwig

Graduate • Geography

Geo-rectifying Historial Idaho Aerial Photographs

2023

Cameron Nielsen

Graduate • Theatre

Photograph historic sites around Latah County to create an interactive map

2023

Irene Koreski

Undergraduate • Lionel Hampton School of Music

Alice Coltrane, Jazz Spiritualism

2024

Alicia Gladman

Graduate • English

Tender Spaces

2024

Dakota Steffen

Undergraduate • History

Work on transcription and processing for oral history collections

2024

Brian Tibayan

Graduate • Education

Process donation of materials from WWAMI

2024

Kate Morrison

Graduate • Earth & Spatial Sciences

Process donation of materials from Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences.

2024

Jamaica Ritcher

Faculty • English

ENG 201: English Grammar Key Concepts and Terms

2024

Kristin Haltinner

Faculty • Culture, Society and Justice

SOC 201: Social Problems

2024

Alyssa Kreikemeier

Faculty • History

Peoples' Guide to the Inland Pacific Northwest

2025

Hannah Green

Graduate • English

Sedimentation

2025

Shelley Walker-Harmon

Undergraduate • History

Campus Architectural History and Building Namesake Research

2025

Annie Sheneman

Graduate • English

Process Dr. Richard Wells papers

2025

Ash Hunter

Graduate • Archaeology

Process donation of historic photos from Forest Service

2025

Marwa Elsayed

Graduate • Political Science

Process Wildlife Resources Department records

2025

Logan Romans

Undergraduate • History

Create metadata for Ben J. Plastino digital collection

2025

Garrison Ferone

Graduate • Fish & Wildlife Sciences

Beneficial Use Reconnaissance Program

2026

Dewan Al Rafi

Graduate • Water Resources

Bringing Idaho's Water History into the Digital Age

2026

Gus Labayan

Graduate • Lionel Hampton School of Music

Choirs at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival

2026

Garret Homer

Graduate • Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences

Landscape Change on the Lewis and Clark Trail

2026

Madeleine Morgan

Undergraduate • English

Vandal Life During World War Two

2026

Antonio Isiordia

Graduate • English

Exploring the Ben J. Plastino collection through essays

2026

Shelley Walker Harmon

Graduate • History

Process donation of aerial photos from Potlatch Corporation

2026

Abbie Youngberg

Graduate • Archeology

Process donation of records from state 4-H office

2026

Idaho Wilderness and Democracy: Experiments in Visualizing Citizen Testimony

Adam Sowards

Visualizing and analyzing citizen testimony via textual analysis of hearings documents from the Wilderness Act...

2017

View Project

Initial development for Lost Lit Lab

Zachary Turpin

Searching out lost literature via early digital media and programmatic searching techniques

2017

View Project

Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium

5 contributors

In past years CDIL has co-hosted a week-long Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium with Washington State...

2017, 2018, 2019

View Project

Project Contributors

Matthew Fox-Amato
Faculty • 2017

Profile

Kristine Levan
Faculty • 2017

Profile

Sarah Nelson
Faculty • 2018

Profile

Erin James
Faculty • 2019

Profile

Ricky Baldridge
Graduate • 2019

CTRL+Shift

2 contributors

Data-driven exploration of oral history interviews with 11 prominent contemporary American poets

2017

View Project

Data-driven exploration of oral history interviews with 11 prominent contemporary American poets

View Project

Project Contributors

Corey Oglesby
Graduate • 2017

Lauren Westerfield
Graduate • 2017

Profile

MUSC 241/242 Theory of Music III

Sean Butterfield

Create on original, interactive, digital textbook to teach students music theory.

2017

PSYC 101 Introduction to Psychology

Kacy Pula

Adapting an open stax textbook to PSYC 101.

2017

EDCI 201 Contexts of Education

Ingrid Spence

Utilized open resources and course resereves to create a zero cost syllabus.

2017

MATH 123 Mathematics Applied to the Modern World

Judith Terrio

Adapting an open textbook for MATH 123.

2017

Voices of Gay Rodeo

Rebecca Scofield

Ongoing oral history project featuring conversations with members of the International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA)...

2018

View Project

Lost Lit Lab

Zachary Turpin

Searching out lost literature via early digital media and programmatic searching techniques

2018

View Project

Initial Develpment for Idaho Wilderness Hearings work

Adam Sowards

Visualizing and analyzing citizen testimony via textual analysis of hearings documents from the Wilderness Act...

2018

View Project

Historical Japanese Comparative Ceramics Collection (HJCCC)

Renae Campbell

Digital collection that identifies and describes Japanese ceramics manufactured during the Meiji and Taisho eras...

2018

View Project

Closure of Syringa

Denessy Rodriguez

2018 CDIL Undergraduate fellow Denessy Rodriguez ('19 Sociology & Anthropology) spent her fellowship developing a...

2018

View Project

CHEM 253 Quantitative Analysis

Peter Allen

Adapting an open textbook and OER for CHEM 253.

2018

EDCI 328 Idaho Histories

Rebekkah Boysen-Taylor

An ebook written by Boysen-Taylor and Marco Seiferle-Valencia that uses primary archival objects and documents...

2018

MusC 241 / 242 Music Theory

Sean Butterfield

Customizing an previously created interactive, digital textbook to teach students music theory.

2018

PHYS 111 General Physics I

Ross Miller

Using Open Stax Physics textbooks for PHYS111

2018

GEOG 165 Introduction to Human Geography

Thomas Ptak

Using open course ware for GEOG 165.

2018

MusC 239/240 Aural Skills

Miranda Wilson

Creating a custom music theory textbook.

2018

OM 370/470 Process Management / Supply Chain Management

Shenghan Xu

Using OER and open textbooks for OM 370.

2018

Leonard Feather Blindfold Tests

Mitchell Gibbs

A digital collection of transcribed interviews between Leonard Feather and renown jazz artists.

2019

View Project

Idaho Public Archaeology

Katrina Eichner

Web and data-based exploration of public archaeology data from a Moscow, Idaho archaeological dig at...

2019

View Project

Initial development for Idaho Public Archaeology project

Katrina Eichner

Exhibit sharing the findings of archaeological digs at Moscow High School, emphasizing public engagement in...

2019

View Project

Potlatch Historical Society Collection

Kit Stokes

Assisted with the improvement of the Potlatch Historical Society Collection

2019

View Project

University of Idaho: Then and Now

Rylee Robertson

Rephotography project documenting prominent sites from the University of Idaho Campus.

2019

View Project

EDCI 302 EDCI 328

Vanessa Anthony-Stevens

Dr. Anthony-Stevens will develop a resource tentatively title Honoring Indigenous Histories: A Reader for Teachers....

2019

JAMM 458: Public Relations Research and Case Studies

Katie Blevins

Dr. Blevins will identify and create OER to support JAMM458, a Public Relations research-based course....

2019

Rebekka Boysen-Taylor

Working in close collaboration with the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation, Boysen-Taylor will create a series...

2019

Arch 483 Urban Theories & Issues

Xiao Hu

Dr.Hu will identify and create OER, as well as Library resources, to replace multiple textbooks...

2019

SPAN/LAS 306: Culture and Institutions of Latin America

Ashley Kerr

Dr. Kerr will develop a collection of openly licenses materials (OER) to create a culturally...

2019

English 101, English 102, English 109

Kathryn Pawelko

Pawelko’s work will focus on creating culturally responsive course syllabi and lesson plans for English...

2019

Oral History Interviews with Lynn "Doc" Skinner

Spencer Manning

A digital essay presenting a series of oral history interviews conducted with Doc Skinner, an...

2020

View Project

Initial development for digital dramaturgy

Sarah Campbell

Annotation and interpretation framework for dramaturgical work

2020

View Project

Storying Extinction

2 contributors

Storying Extinction: Responding to the Loss of North Idaho’s Mountain Caribou is a multidisciplinary digital...

2020

View Project

Project Contributors

Jack Kredell
Graduate • 2020

Chris Lamb
Graduate • 2020

What Glass Shards Are Called

Samson Matthews

This project presents the poem and musical composition What Glass Shards Are Called, a collaboration...

2020

View Project

NE450: Principles of Nuclear Engineering

R.A. Borrelli

Dr. Borrelli will continue development of an OER for fundamental nuclear engineering knowledge.

2020

EDCI 328, EDCI 302, EDCI 432, EDCI 463

Rebekka Boysen-Taylor

Boysen-Taylor will develop materials that support creating open assignments for elementary educators.

2020

MVSC 486/586- Healthy Active Lifestyles Assessment and Intervention

Helen Brown

Dr. Brown will create an open source workbook to support students in developing their skills...

2020

AgEd 251, CLDR 480, AgEd 450/550/CLDR 450

Sarah Bush

Dr. Bush will create and adapt open materials to replace traditional texts in AgED251.

2020

EDCI 448/548: Introduction to ENL in the K-12 Schools

Janine Darragh

Dr. Darragh will create an open syllabus that transitions EDCI 448/548 from a traditional text...

2020

WGSS 201: Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Leontina Hormel

Dr. Hormel will adapt an open textbook for WGSS 201, Intro to Women's, Gender and...

2020

Ella Fitzgerald Collection

Destiny Angel-Hubble

A digital exhibit celebrating Fitzgerald’s fashion and style through her clothing, photographs, and album covers....

2021

View Project

Digital Dramaturgy

Sarah Campbell

Annotation and interpretation framework for dramaturgical work

2021

View Project

Keeping Watch

4 contributors

A “deep” spatial, historical, and biocultural setting of the fire lookout tower in Idaho

2021

View Project

A “deep” spatial, historical, and biocultural setting of the fire lookout tower in Idaho

View Project

Project Contributors

Jenn Ladino
Faculty • 2021

Profile

Michael Decker
Graduate • 2021

Jack Kredell
Graduate • 2021

Chris Lamb
Graduate • 2021

Vandal Poem of the Day

Cady Favazzo

Favazzo helped garner two additional presses' participation in the Vandal Poem of the Day project,...

2021

View Project

Ghana Music and Dance Initiative

Liam Marchant

An active database of music and dance from across Ghana.

2021

View Project

Process the League of Women Voters of Moscow records

Erin Geslani

Year 1, 2021: Awarded to Erin Geslani, an MA student, to process the League of...

2021

View Project

PHIL 312: Intro to Decision Theory

2 contributors

Writing a complete open text on Decision Theory.

2021, 2022

Writing a complete open text on Decision Theory.

Project Contributors

Bert Baumgaertner
Faculty • 2021

Profile

Bert Baumgaertner
Faculty • 2022

Profile

Decision Theory

Bert Baumgartner

A conceptual introduction to and open textbook on decision theory used in his own classes....

2021

MVSC 486 and MVSC 586- Healthy Active Lifestyles Assessment and Program Planning

Helen Brown

Creating an interactive workbook to support student progress over the semester.

2021

OER for outreach, service, and research in conjunction with English teachers from crisis contexts around the world.

Janine Darragh

Create fresh OER entries on OERCommons to transition content from a locked in app to...

2021

CRIM 101: Introduction to Criminology and CRIM 420: Substance Use and Society

Matthew Grindal

Develop course readers that support these two courses utilizing existing open texts.

2021

ART 100: Introduction to Art

Lauren McCleary

Creating a zero cost syllabus for a high-enrollment Introduction to Art Course - Art 101....

2021

FTV 100: Film History & Aesthetics

Russell Meeuf

Building a zero cost or very low cost film studies course that still utilizes contemporary...

2021

Doc Cheatham Collection

Esther David

A digital exhibit featuring photographs, newspaper articles, letters, clothing, and jazz charts of trumpeter Adolphus...

2022

View Project

School of Cello Playing: A new translation of Carl Davidoff's Violoncell-Schule

Miranda Wilson

https://idaho.pressbooks.pub/violoncellschule/

2022

View Project

Process the Palouse Empire Science Fiction Association records

Dusty Fleener

Year 2, 2022: Awarded to Dusty Fleener, a PhD student, to process the Palouse Empire...

2022

View Project

Process the Women in Natural Resources collection

Floriana Tulli

A second award was given in 2022 because there was a strong candidate pool. The...

2022

View Project

Main Street Video

Milo Muise

Main Street Video presents 34 oral history interviews captured in 2021 exploring the phenomena of...

2022

View Project

EDSP 448/548

Aleksandra Hollingshead

Developing open reading list to replace outdated and high-cost textbook.

2022

HIST 344: The Roman Empire

Alyson Roy

Creating a zero-cost version of course materials, combining primary source documents and objects with ebook...

2022

The Chestnut Collective

Nick Koenig

A sociocultural and sociopolitical research project tracking the blight and subsequent loss of the American...

2023

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Wolf Reintroduction

Floriana Tulli

A multimodal essay exploring various dimensions surrounding the wolf controversy: a coalescence of regional viewpoints...

2023

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Western and Clark's Grebe Breeding Lakes of North America

Anne Yen

A summary of Western and Clark’s Grebe breeding data at state, provincial, and regional scales...

2023

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Work on the Latah County Oral History Collection

Grace Gardiner

2023

Daniel Vargas

Daniel arranged and described accession, creating metadata that allowed for a public-facing finding aid. He...

2023

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Geo-rectifying Historial Idaho Aerial Photographs

Caroline Ludwig

Caroline geo-rectified and in some cases digitized, historical air photo’s in the U of I...

2023

Photograph historic sites around Latah County to create an interactive map

Cameron Nielsen

Translated a printed map of historic sites, created by the Latah Preservation Commission, into a...

2023

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Alice Coltrane, Jazz Spiritualism

Irene Koreski

A digital collection exploring Alice Coltrane's contributions to jazz spiritualism, showcasing a rare oral history...

2024

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Tender Spaces

Alicia Gladman

A multi-lingual, multimodal essay on Gaëtane Buttigieg's life, art, and forced institutionalization in the 1970s....

2024

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Work on transcription and processing for oral history collections

Dakota Steffen

2024

Process donation of materials from WWAMI

Brian Tibayan

Fellow arranged and described accession, creating metadata that allowed for a public-facing finding aid. He...

2024

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Process donation of materials from Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences.

Kate Morrison

Fellow arranged and described accession, creating metadata that allowed for a public-facing finding aid. She...

2024

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ENG 201: English Grammar Key Concepts and Terms

Jamaica Ritcher

Creating a zero cost syllabus for ENGL 201 - English Grammar: Key Concepts and Terms....

2024

Kristin Haltinner

Creating a zero cost syllabus for SOC 201 - Social Problems. This fellowship will create...

2024

CRIM 329: Homicide

Kristine Levan

This fellowship will focus on identifying new Open and other zero cost solutions for CRIM...

2024

CORS 246: Catalyzing Change: Co-Creating Climate Futures

Nick Koenig

Creating a zero cost syllabus for CORS 246 - Catalyzing Change: Co-Creating Climate Futures

2024

Peoples' Guide to the Inland Pacific Northwest

Alyssa Kreikemeier

Classroom space-based archival curriculum project creating a deep map of historical research curated by students....

2025

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Sedimentation

Hannah Green

Sedimentation is a multimodal project which seeks to recognize, represent, and story the central role...

2025

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Campus Architectural History and Building Namesake Research

Shelley Walker-Harmon

Building on research done for the Campus Historic District Project, Shelley enriched the U of...

2025

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Process Dr. Richard Wells papers

Annie Sheneman

2025

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Process donation of historic photos from Forest Service

Ash Hunter

2025

Process Wildlife Resources Department records

Marwa Elsayed

2025

Wilderness/Environmental Archive Analysis and Survey

Jack Kredell

Creation of a high-level survey of current Special Collections holdings that align with a potential...

2025

Create metadata for Ben J. Plastino digital collection

Logan Romans

Developed metadata to support the creation of a digital collection for the Ben J. Plastino...

2025

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Beneficial Use Reconnaissance Program

Garrison Ferone

Utilize the historical Beneficial Use Reconnaissance Program dataset (1993-2021), to conduct spatiotemporal analysis on a...

2026

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Bringing Idaho's Water History into the Digital Age

Dewan Al Rafi

Transform Idaho's historical water records into structured, reusable data to uncover long-term trends in water...

2026

Choirs at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival

Gus Labayan

Gus Labayen is the 2026 Berry Fellow, highlighting vocal ensemble groups that have historically participated...

2026

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Landscape Change on the Lewis and Clark Trail

Garret Homer

This project traces the ecological and cultural transformation of five sites along the Lewis and...

2026

Vandal Life During World War Two

Madeleine Morgan

A collection focusing on the student publication of the University Of Idaho, the Argonaut, ranging...

2026

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Exploring the Ben J. Plastino collection through essays

Antonio Isiordia

2026

Process donation of aerial photos from Potlatch Corporation

Shelley Walker Harmon

2026

Process donation of records from state 4-H office

Abbie Youngberg

2026