The headquarters for the 18thConnect Research and Development team is located at Texas A&M University with support from its sister site, NINES, at the University of Virginia
Research and Development:
LAURA MANDELL, Director
Dr. Laura Mandell is Director of 18thConnect, Associate Director of NINES, general editor of The Poetess Archive and the PAJournal. She has written a book and many articles in the fields of 18th-century studies and British Romanticism (CV).
BRAD PASANEK, Associate Director
Brad Pasanek is Assistant Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Virginia.
MARY J. FARRINGTON, Project Coordinator
Mary J. Farrington is a Project Coordinator working for the IDHMC at Texas A&M University.
SHAWN W. MOORE, Project Manager
Shawn W. Moore is a Ph.D. Candidate in English working for the IDHMC.
MICHAEL SIMEONE, Director of Development
Michael Simeone is a Ph.D. Candidate in English working for the NCSA.
JENNIFER LIEBERMAN
Jennifer Lieberman is an OCR Project Manager (Univ. of Illinois) for 18thConnect. She received a Bachelors of Arts in English and a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics from the University of Florida, as well as a Masters of the Arts in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently a PhD Candidate in English with a minor in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois. Her interests are varied and include American Literature, Gender and Women’s Studies, Science and Technology Studies, American Studies, and the Digital Humanities. An interdisciplinary scholar, she has held research fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution’s Dibner Library, the Bakken Library and Museum, and the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.
MIKE BEHRENS
Mike Behrens is an OCR Project Manager (Univ. of Illinois) for 18thConnect. He is a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation is on English women writers and religion in the long eighteenth century.