Curriculum Vitae | alli crandell

EDUCATION

Grad Certificate, Web Design and Development
University of Denver (Denver, CO)

M.S. Science and Technology Studies
Virginia Polytechnic and State University (Blacksburg, VA)
Thesis Title: Cyborg Butterflies, Liminal Medicine: A History of Thyroid Hormone Treatment, 1890-1970

B.A. Mathematics and English
Hollins University (Roanoke, VA)
Concentrations: Creative Writing
Budapest Semesters in Mathematics (Budapest, Hungary)

EMPLOYMENT

Director of The Athenaeum Press and Digital Initiatives (Coastal Carolina University, 2019-current)

Strategically direct an innovative publishing lab which focuses on multimedia projects with the marginalized and less-documented South.
Use Agile-based project management techniques to direct two to four concurrent project teams of three to 18 faculty, students, and staff to deliver innovative, multimedia, award-winning products; student literary and features magazine; and surrounding publicity
Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on major grant projects and initiatives with a budget of $750,000+
Direct supervisor of 2-3 staff members who manage media production, data infrastructure, web presence, and strategic developments for the college

Interim Director of The Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies (Coastal Carolina University, 2021-2022)

Plan, organize, and execute annual International Gullah Geechee and African Diaspora Conference (IGGAD) with over 400 attendees, held at Coastal Carolina University, and accompanying Gullah Geechee Community Day, a free public festival of performances, lectures, and workshops with over 1,000 attendees.
Facilitate Executive Advisory Board and Faculty Advisory Board in leading academic and community outreach initiatives for the only institute dedicated to Gullah Geechee heritage and culture in the nation.
Serve as liaison for Gullah Geechee culture and African Diaspora resources for community leaders, general public, students and faculty, and policymakers in the region

Director of Digital Initiatives (Coastal Carolina University, 2016-2019)

Oversee and implement development for digital initiatives and infrastructure building for college-wide initiatives and laboratory spaces, such as a video production studio, digital humanities lab, technical theatre lab, and special web projects and design.
With Press Director, initiate and manage publication projects (two to three simultaneous projects) for The Athenaeum Press, working with groups of four to 14 students, instigating travel, resources, production, press releases, and documentation.
Work with Program Assistant on event planning, paperwork, and budget.
Find and network with new community partners and collaborators. Teach 1-2 project-related courses per semester.

Digital Content Coordinator (Coastal Carolina University, 2013-2016)

Audited and updated college and Press websites; coordinate with stakeholders and departments to maintain and update web platforms using a variety of CMS and hand-coded interfaces.
Co-teach and program manage Athenaeum Press project course (3-12 students/section) in production, design, and digital methods. Breakout digital team to design, develop, and test digital components.
Managed a $350,000 renovation project for producing multimedia publication lab and $125,000 – $200,000 per year in technology expenditures.

Student Success and Technology Center Coordinator, Horry-Georgetown Technical College (Conway, SC, 2012-2013)

Manage the operations of tutoring center at two-year community college, scheduling students, preparing weekly reports, and managing analytics.
Increased usage of writing tutors by 50% by adjusting the schedule and leading workshops; Implemented a visiting seminar to discuss uses of tutoring center with diverse courses, tailoring presentations and resources for each presentation. Conducted 8-10 seminars/week.

Digital Media Research Assistant, Lowcountry Foodways Project (Trident Technical Community College and Avery Research Center 2011)

Wrote extensive report outlining best practices for digital community archives
Developed workplan for future digital interface to collect community stories

CREATIVE DIGITAL WORK

website + book design: Steal This Classroom (punctum books, 2019)

Steal This Classroom: Teaching and Learning Unbound is a project from Jody Cohen and Anne Dalke that construes “classrooms” as testing grounds, paradoxically boxed-in spaces that cannot keep their promise to enclose, categorize, or name. I developed a completely custom web interface built on WordPress and designed the corresponding interior of the book. (WordPress from blank template; interior book design)

website: punctumbooks redesign (punctum books, 2016)

punctum books is an open-access publisher who had grown out of its previous WordPress installation. I developed a customized graduated open-access system to encourage sustained support through subscriptions and graduated downloads. (WordPress customization)

web-book: In Divisible Cities (punctum books, 2013)

author: Dominic Pettman

A hand-coded and whimsical digital publication that accompanies a physical and ebook from punctum books, In Divisible Cities is a playful and interactive exploration of Pettman’s text. (HTML/CSS, jQuery, PHP)

web-book: Making the Geologic Now (punctum books, 2012)

editors: Elizabeth Ellsworth + Jamie Kruse

A multimedia and hand-coded digital compendium to a beautifully-designed physical and ebook from punctum books, Making the Geologic Now offers readers a chance to break the text into components, as well as trace current discussions and interact with the text via social media on the discussions + sightings page. Mentioned on NPR. (PHP, HTML/CSS, jQuery)

web-text: The Waccamaw Interview Wheel (waccamaw journal, 2012)

orchestrated by: Jason Ockert

An interactive game of chance featuring a round-robin of interviews with award-winning writers, The Waccamaw Interview Wheel was designed and coded from scratch using a combination of Adobe Flash and open-source programs such as Gimp and Vector. (HTML/CSS, Flash, ActionScript)

digital art: bodies/organs: a body archive (2009)

Based on the interviews of over 15 women at a small women’s university, bodies/organs attempts to create an abstract and affective archive that chronicles the relationships of women within these historically queer spaces. (HTML/CSS, Flash)

RESEARCH POSITIONS

Digital Media Research Assistant, Lowcountry Foodways Project, 2011
Trident Technical Community College and Avery Research Center (Laura Barfield)

Thesis Research, Cyborg Butterflies, Liminal Medicine, 2010-2011
Virginia Tech (Bernice Hausman)

Research Assistant, The Hollins Community Project, 2007-2008
Hollins University/Virginia Tech (Deborah Tatar, Steve Harrison, Jen Boyle)

Research Assistant, Scaling Up SimCalc Project, 2007-2008
Virginia Polytechnic and State University (Deborah Tatar)

Researcher/Developer, Quantitative Reasoning Requirement in English, 2006
Hollins University (Phyllis Mellinger)

PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS

Crandell, Alli. “A Survey of Digital Memory Banks.” A Report for the Lowcountry Foodways Project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services Planning Grant.

Boyle, Jen and Alli Crandell. “The Hollins Community Project: New Media, Narrative, and Affective History,” Mobile Media. Wi: Journal of Mobile Media, Spring 2009. http://wi.hexagram.ca/

Schaefer, Matt; Deborah Tatar; Steve Harrison and Alli Crandell. “Using Place as Provocation: In situ collaborative narrative construction,” Learning While Mobile. Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology, Spring 2008. < http://www.rcetj.org/>

PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“The Gullah Geechee Digital Project: Community Engagement, Repatriation, Ownership” with Scott Bacon
Bucknell Digital Scholarship Symposium, 2022, Virtual.

“The Gullah Geechee Digital Project,” with Scott Bacon, Zenobia Harper, and Sue Bergeron.
DigiPres, 2022, Baltimore

“Gullah Geechee Digital Project: Voices and Silences”
African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Interdisciplinary Conference
James Madison University, Virtual, 2022

“Gullah Geechee Digital Project”
Digital Humanities, 2020, Virtual

“The Promise of Affective Storytelling,” with Susan Bergeron
Southeastern Museum Conference, 2019, Virtual

“Rough Seas and Legacies: Pirates of the Carolinas,” with Leah Alford, Jordan Spirakis, Sydney Watson, and Scott Mann. Winners of the Student Work in Museums (SWIM) Competition.
Charleston, South Carolina

Association for Computers and Humanities, 2019

“Trans Voices of the South” and “Telling Hampton’s Stories: Design and Production of Virtual Hampton’s Vignettes” with Tripthi Pillai, Shonte Clement, Joshua Parsons, and Susan Bergeron.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

“Transforming Public History from Charleston to the Atlantic World” with Jen Boyle, Digital Culture and Design, and Eric Crawford, discussing Sandy Island Cultural Initiative.
CLAW Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World, 2017
Charleston, South Carolina

“War on Two Fronts: Critically Making Books, Museum Exhibits and Archives with Students” discussing A War on Two Fronts with collaborators Scott Mann and Jen Boyle
AIGA Design Educators Conference, 2017
Los Angeles, California

“Collaborations between Universities and Museums” with the Horry County Museum, discussing A War on Two Fronts from The Athenaeum Press
South Carolina Museum Conference, 2015
Edgefield, South Carolina

“Successful Collaborations on Local Archives” with the Horry County Museum, discussing The Wealth of Nothing from The Athenaeum Press
South Carolina Museum Conference, 2014
Florence, South Carolina

“Redefining the University Press” with Trisha O’Connor
Southeastern Library Association/South Carolina Library Association, 2014
Columbia, SC

“Victorian Chimeras: the emergence of organotherapy, animality and gender”
Gender, Bodies and Technology Conference, 2012
Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, VA

“bodies/organs: an affective body archive”
Gender, Bodies and Technology Conference, 2010
Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, VA

Shenandoah Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Conference
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

Course Designer and Instructor, The Athenaeum Press, 2013-
Coastal Carolina University
Press Project Course (hybrid)

Instructor, Science and Technology Studies, 2010-2011
Virginia Polytechnic and State University
Engineering Cultures (online)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Science and Technology Studies, Fall 2009-Spring 2010
Virginia Polytechnic and State University (Saul Halfon, Matt Wisnioski)
Engineering Cultures
Introduction to Science, Technology and the Humanities

SERVICE

SC Humanities, Board of Directors Member (2022-)
Executive Board Member; Secretary/Treasurer (2023- ); Chair of Resources Committee

Advisory Board Member, Academy of Technology and Academics, Digital Media (2022-2023)

Staff Senator, Chair of Staff Policy and Welfare Committee, and Staff Senate Executive Committee Member, Coastal Carolina University (2019-2021)

Plantersville Cultural Complex Advisory/Planning Committee (2019- )

Executive Advisory Board Member, Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies (2018-2021, 2022-present)

QEP Topic Selection Committee, Coastal Carolina University (2019-2020)

Secretary, South Carolina Federation of Museums (2019-2021)

International Gullah Geechee and African Diaspora Conference Organizer Co-Chair (with Eric Crawford 2019-2020); Chair 2022

South Carolina Federation of Museums Conference Planning Committee, 2018.

Ex-Officio Staff Representative, Technology Committee, Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Coastal Carolina University (2014- )

Punctum Books, Web Coordinator, Developer/Designer, 2013-18.

Metadata Mapping Project (Tarez Samra Gabran), Web Designer, 2011-12.

Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Composition and Rhetoric, Web Coordinator and Designer, 2011-14.

Waccamaw Animal Rescue Foundation, Volunteer, 2009-16.

YouthPride Atlanta, Volunteer and Facilitator, 2001-04.

PAST CAREERS

Cultural Arts Program Assistant, Coastal Carolina University

Student Success and Technology Center Coordinator, Horry Georgetown Community College

Algebra Readiness Instructor, Roanoke City Public Schools

Mathematics/SAT/GRE/Writing Tutor, Freelance

Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning Tutor, Hollins University

Art Department Assistant Administrator, Hollins University

Town Crier and Character Actor (“Flirty Gerty Gutterpants”), Georgia Renaissance Festival

PERFORMANCE WORK

Digital media and performance, The Lunch Box, 2008

bodies in progress: an interactive exhibit

Performance Poet FloydFest 2005, 2007

AWARDS AND PRESS

Sandy Island Community Recognition Award, 2022

Horry County Museum Volunteer of the Year, 2019

Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts Staff Recognition Award, 2017

Supervised Student Project Awards

Southeastern Museum Conference Exhibition Awards, Silver, <$10,000 Category. 2019.
“Rough Seas and Legacies: Piracy in the Carolinas.”

Southeastern Museum Conference Student Work in Museums, Conference Presentation, Poster Session. 2019. “Rough Seas and Legacies: Piracy in the Carolinas.”

American Institute for Graphic Arts Southeastern Regional, Student Best of Show, Integrated Brand Identity Campaign. 2018. “At Low Tide: Voices of Sandy Island.”

America Institute for Graphic Arts District Coastal Carolinas, Silver. “492 and Counting: Homelessness in Myrtle Beach, SC.”

Printing Industry of the Carolinas, Special Judges Award, “War on Two Fronts.” 2015.

Publicity and Press

“‘Local Stories Matter’: The Athenaeum Press exhibit highlights works of Coastal Carolina University,” WBTW (October 2023)

International Collaboration, Grand Strand Magazine (August 2023)

Storytelling from a New Point of View, Grand Strand Magazine (February 2022)

CCU’s Crandell joins South Carolina Humanities Board, PeeDee News (February 2022)

CCU’s Joyner Institute expands collaboration with Georgetown County community, Charleston Chronicle (April 2020)

CCU’s Gullah Geechee conference performances to benefit area flood relief, Charleston Chronicle (March 2020)

Preservation brings new uses to old building, Coastal Observer (June 2019)

Sandy Island Cultural Initiative works to revive historic school, national historic landmark, WMBF News (June 2019)

Coastal Carolina University scholars win $270,327 grant to digitize historic materials from Gullah Geechee communities, Charleston Chronicle (April 2018)