Prior Board Members

Pamela Andrews, (Board Member 2019)
Repository Librarian
University of North Texas Libraries
pamela.andrews@unt.edu
https://www.library.unt.edu/people/pamela-andrews

Pamela Andrews is a Repository Librarian in the Digital Curation Unit at UNT Libraries.  Pamela works with UNT faculty, staff, and students to make their scholarship more broadly accessible through inclusion in the UNT Scholarly Works Collection. She earned a Master’s degree in English from the University of Central Florida and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from Florida State University.
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Heidi Arbisi-Kelm, (Board Member 2018 – 2023)
Assistant Dean, Office of Academic Affairs
University of Iowa Graduate College
heidi-arbisi-kelm@uiowa.edu
https://grad.uiowa.edu/staff

Heidi Arbisi-Kelm is Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs in the Graduate College at the University of Iowa where she oversees thesis and dissertation administration, graduate degree progress and clearance, and student case management for all master’s and doctoral degree students on campus.  Prior to working at the University of Iowa, she worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds a M.S. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from UW-Madison and a M.Ed. in Student Affairs from UCLA.

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Valeria Caviness, (Board Member 2020)

Enrolled Student Services
Thesis/Dissertation Review
University of North Carolina Greesnboro
vtcavine@uncg.edu
https://grs.uncg.edu/enrolled/etd/
Valeria Caviness is the Thesis/Dissertation Reviewer for the Graduate School at University of North Carolina Greensboro. She has worked in the Graduate School for the last 9 years. In addition to formatting reviews for theses and dissertations, Valeria evaluates doctoral paperwork, graduation applications. as well handling graduation clearance and awarding of degrees. She holds a Master of Arts degree in History from University of North Carolina Greensboro and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Elon University.
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Lusiella Fazzino, Co-Secretary (Board Member 2019 – 2022)
Assist. Professor/ eRepository Scholarship Librarian
St. John’s University, NY Libraries
fazzinol@stjohns.edu
https://www.stjohns.edu/academics/faculty/lusiella-fazzino

Lusiella Fazzino received her MLIS from Simmons College, her JD from Suffolk University Law School and her BA from Goddard College.

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Haines, Lou 2012 MU PortraitLou Haines, (Ex Officio, Board Member 2014 – 2019)
Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate School
Miami University Graduate School
hainesla@miamioh.edu
http://miamioh.edu/graduate-studies/about-us.html
Lou Haines is originally from the Columbus, Ohio area where she spent 35 years in the legal profession. After retiring from that field in 2006, she began a new career in Oxford, Ohio at Miami University’s Graduate School as Assistant to the Dean. At the Graduate School, Lou concentrates her time in helping the students with all aspects of their graduate school careers, but especially with disseminating their research and work on OhioLINK, Ohio’s ETD repository. Lou has been instrumental in streamlining Miami’s ETD process, and has been very active with OhioLINK by working on several task force committees. Lou is currently the Treasurer of the Ohio Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association. (OETDA). Lou has also been appointed to Miami University’s Unclassified Personnel Advisory Committee and represents the interests of the unclassified staff on this executive committee of Miami’s University Senate. Additionally, Lou was recently appointed to serve on the University’s Academic Policy Committee. Lou majored in the field of sociology at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
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Hammons-Laura-2013Laura R. Hammons, (Board Member 2011 – 2015)
Texas A&M University Office of Graduate and Professional Studies
lhammons@tamu.edu
Dr. Laura Hammons was the Director of Graduate Records Processing and Thesis Office in the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies at Texas A&M University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and master’s and doctoral degrees in educational human resource development, all from Texas A&M University. Laura was a board member for the Texas ETD Association and led efforts in 2009 to establish TxETDA as the second state-wide ETD Association in the U.S. She is also one of the founders of the US ETD Association, where she has served on the Board of Directors. Laura served as the USETDA Secretary 2014-2015. In 2011, Laura received the NDLTD International ETD Leadership Award.
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Jessica Horowitz, (Board Member 2020)
Director of Academic Relations
ProQuest Dissertation Publishing
Jessica.Horowitz@proquest.com
https://www.proquest.com/products-services/dissertations/
PhD Loyola University, MA Northwestern University, BS University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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picture-89-1348163730Matthew Mariner, (Ex Officio, Board Member 2014 – 2019)
Head of Special Collections and Digital Initiatives
University of Colorado Denver, Auraria Library
matthew.mariner@ucdenver.edu
http://library.auraria.edu/
Professor Matt Mariner is the Head of Special Collections and Digital Initiatives at Auraria Library, a tri-institutional academic library serving The University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Community College of Denver on one urban campus. Matt holds a Master of Historic Preservation degree from the University of Florida and, prior to joining Auraria Library, served as a digital projects manager at the University of Florida Digital Library Center.  In his capacity as Head of Special Collections and Digital Initiatives Matt manages physical collections of rare and unique materials as well as digital collections consisting of digitized and born-digital local content. Matt’s main interest in ETDs is within the complex subfield of preserving and providing access to projects-in-lieu-of-theses, capstone projects, and other terminal project materials that are often overlooked by aggregators and academic departments alike.
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Angela McCutcheon, (Ex Officio, Board Member 2010 – 2014)
USETDA founding Board member. Former affiliation with Ohio University Graduate School and founding member of the Ohio ETD Association.
am329404@ohio.edu
Ohio ETD Association site: http://www.oetda.org
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Robert J. Parker, (Board Member 2011 – 2015)
Former affiliation with the University of Florida Libraries.
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Janice Robinson, Board Member
Special Projects Manager
Brigham Young University Graduate Studies
janice_robinson@byu.edu
http://etd.lib.byu.edu/contacts.html

Janice has been at BYU for 21 years. Janice oversees Electronic Theses and Dissertations, the New Grad Info Fair and Orientation, and serves as the liaison with developers to resolve programming bugs, new reporting tools, batch processes, and SIS issues. Janice has been involved with ETD’s at BYU since they were first implemented in 2002. Janice has worked closely with the library developer over the years to plan new solutions, resolve issues, and grant access. Janice serves as a resource to departments and colleges as they take on their ETD review duties and roles.
Janice was the lead in the design of the online application starting in 1999. Janice works closely with the Admissions Administrator for online application updates and solutions and has been involved in all new processes including Decision Notification, Enrollment, PDF Delivery, CRM, and Online Review.

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Shorey_ChristyChristy Shorey, Board Member (Ex Officio, Board Member 2015 – 2019)
University of Florida Libraries
chrshor@uflib.ufl.edu
Christy Shorey was the Manager of UF Institutional Repository and Theses & Dissertations Program. She trained users on uploading their material into the Institutional Repository (IR@UF) and oversaw the access and preservation of ETDs, projects in lieu of thesis and undergraduate honors theses. She also assisted authors in uploading supplemental material for these ETDs, and oversaw a project digitizing over 13,000 historical print dissertations to promote availability to a wider audience. Christy holds a BA from the University of Florida, and earned her MLIS from Florida State University.
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Cynthia Tindongan, (Board Member 2020 – 2022)
Director, Thesis and Dissertation Services (TAD)
Ohio University Graduate College
tindonga@ohio.edu

Cynthia Tindongan received a B.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of Delaware, an M.S. in Community Development from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and a PhD in Cultural Studies in Education from Ohio University. She has worked on community, state, national and international levels in community development, education, and various social justice initiatives including the movement to end homelessness in Ohio and the United States. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines and a United Nations Volunteer with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Hong Kong.

Cynthia joined the Graduate College in 2018 as Director of Thesis and Dissertation Services (TAD) at Ohio University, the very same office that served her in completing her own dissertation. Her research interests include best practices in thesis and dissertation services, identity politics, and postcolonial and transnational studies. She has published and presented at national conferences on her research around Muslim youth and identity politics, and on ending homelessness.

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Donald Williams, (Board Member 2019)
Institutional Repository Librarian
University of Alabama Libraries
dgwilliams3@ua.edu
https://guides.lib.ua.edu/ir
Donald Williams is the Institutional Repository Librarian as the University of Alabama. He has been at UA since 2017 and was hired to build and populate the repository there from the ground up. Donald has worked with, and managed, institutional repositories and digital collections since 2010 when he began his career in this field at the University of Utah’s Marriott Library. Making electronic theses and dissertations publicly available in repositories has been a passion of his, and he takes pride in working with students to get their work out in the public sphere. He finds it exciting that theses and dissertations tend to be the research accessed and downloaded the most from IR’s.
In his spare time Donald enjoys reading (he is a librarian after all), voluntary service in his community, and researching religious history. He is married with three young children, and as much as he enjoys his professional career, the title and work he enjoys the most is being a husband and father.
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Aura Young, Board Member (Board Member 2019 – 2023)
Assistant Director of Professional Development and Doctoral Support, Center for Graduate Life
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Aura.Young@uncc.edu
http://aurayoungphd.com/

Aura Young is the Assistant Director of Professional Development and Doctoral Support in the Center for Graduate Life at UNC Charlotte. Aura has been overseeing thesis and dissertation administration since 2017. She holds a master’s degree from Duke University and a PhD from Yale University. Her area of expertise was nineteenth-century Russian literature before she began working in the Center for Graduate Life and became passionate about improving the graduate student experience.

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