About Us

 

Carrie Frey

Director of Library Services, Centre College

As Primary Investigator, Carrie leads the collaboration among the four institutions, setting goals and agendas for all meetings and keeping the team on schedule, developing a timeline for all deliverables related to the project and providing structure for all needed documentation and reporting.  As Director of the Centre College Library, she is responsible for strategic visioning for Library Services and for facilitating the work of the library team, goal setting, and project management. Carrie’s research interests include diversity and inclusion initiatives in academic libraries, copyright, information literacy, assessment, and leadership in academic libraries.

Andrea Abrams

Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion & Professor Anthropology

Andrea Abrams came to Centre in 2007 as Centre’s first Consortium for Faculty Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges Postdoctoral Fellow and became an assistant professor of anthropology in 2009. She was promoted to associate professor in 2014. In 2018 she was named associate vice president for diversity affairs & special assistant to the president, and in 2021 was named vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

She is the author of God and Blackness: Race, Gender and Identity in a Middle-Class Afrocentric Church (NYU Press, 2014). She led a study-abroad trip to Ghana during CentreTerm 2013, and co-taught Spring Term in London, England in 2015. Before coming to Centre, Abrams taught at the University of Southern Mississippi, Emory University, Agnes Scott College, and Spelman College. Her research focuses on racial and gender issues in the South.

Abrams has a B.A. in sociology and anthropology from Agnes Scott College. She earned an M.A. in anthropology, a graduate certificate in women’s studies, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Emory University.

Christy Allen

Associate Director of Digital and Resource Management, Furman University

Christy provides strategic leadership for the acquisition and description of new library materials, digital collections, the institutional repository, the library website, and library systems. Christy’s work with Pathways to Diversity included collaborating on the creation of metadata standards and coordinating the digitization and description of materials from Furman. Research interests include digital scholarship, open access, and accessibility.

 

Amy Frederick

Chair of the Art Department, Centre College

Amy has been involved with the Pathways to Diversity project since its inception in 2017.  She has taught several courses that have investigated and contributed to the materials included in the Pathways to Diversity website. She has also taught students how to curate materials for the project.

 

Mary Girard

Digital Scholarship Librarian, Centre College

Mary maintains the institutional repository, the digital archives, and Omeka sites related to campus projects. She supports faculty, staff, and students with digital projects. She also supports the Centre College Suite for Digital Innovations. Research interests include local history and preservation of digital materials.

 

Beth Morgan

Cataloging & Special Collections Librarian/Archivist, Centre College

As Head Cataloger, Beth leads metadata initiatives to enhance the discovery of digital collections. As Archivist/Special Collections Librarian, she preserves and manages Centre College’s archives, special collections, and rare books collection, and supports faculty and students with archival research through classroom instruction and hands-on projects. Beth has been involved with the Pathways to Diversity project since its inception in 2017, leading the metadata collaboration and working with students to research and curate archival materials for the Pathways site.

 

Claire Strom

Rapetti-Trunzo Chair of History, Rollins College

Claire has been engaged in researching the history of the college. Over the last five years, she has taught numerous classes that utilize the college archives as students explore various aspects of Rollins history. Together with the digital archivist, Rachel Walton, Strom has found a number of innovative digital ways for the students to disseminate their work.

 

 

Rachel Walton

Digital Archivist & Records Manager, Rollins College

Rachel acquires, preserves, and provides access to artifacts and records of long-term significance to the College, whether digital and physical, in accordance with Rollins’ teaching and learning mission. This includes, but is not limited to the published and unpublished work of faculty and students, digitized materials related to the history of the College, and any other campus records that merit long term retention. As such, Rachel manages the institutional repository, online web archive, finding aid database, and all the other digital collection portals of the College Archives. Rachel enjoys partnering with instructors and students to lead archives-driven Digital Humanities projects and her professional research interests include primary source literacy, website usability, and research data management.