Fellowship Programs
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.
Featured Fellowship Projects
Program Impact
Total Fellowships
Since 2017
Unique Projects
Digital collections, websites, OER
Students Impacted
Through OER initiatives
Student Savings
In textbook costs
Explore Fellows and Their Work

Adam Sowards
Faculty • History2 Projects:
- • Idaho Wilderness and Democracy: Experiments in Visualizing Citizen Testimony
- • Initial Develpment for Idaho Wilderness Hearings work

Zachary Turpin
Faculty • English2 Projects:
- • Initial development for Lost Lit Lab
- • Lost Lit Lab

Matthew Fox-Amato
Faculty • HistoryPalouse Digital Scholarship Symposium

Kristine Levan
Faculty • Culture, Society and Justice2 Projects:
- • Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium
- • CRIM 329: Homicide

Corey Oglesby
Graduate • EnglishCTRL+Shift

Lauren Westerfield
Graduate • EnglishCTRL+Shift

Sean Butterfield
Faculty • Lionel Hampton School of Music2 Projects:
- • MUSC 241/242 Theory of Music III
- • MusC 241 / 242 Music Theory

Kacy Pula
Faculty • Psychology & CommunicationPSYC 101 Introduction to Psychology

Ingrid Spence
Faculty • EducationEDCI 201 Contexts of Education
Judith Terrio
Faculty • MathematicsMATH 123 Mathematics Applied to the Modern World

Rebecca Scofield
Faculty • HistoryVoices of Gay Rodeo

Sarah Nelson
Faculty • Modern Languages & CulturesPalouse Digital Scholarship Symposium

Renae Campbell
Graduate • Culture, Society and JusticeHistorical Japanese Comparative Ceramics Collection (HJCCC)

Denessy Rodriguez
Undergraduate • Culture, Society and JusticeClosure of Syringa
Peter Allen
Faculty • ChemistryCHEM 253 Quantitative Analysis

Rebekkah Boysen-Taylor
Faculty • Curriculum and InstructionEDCI 328 Idaho Histories

Ross Miller
Graduate • PhysicsPHYS 111 General Physics I

Thomas Ptak
Faculty • GeographyGEOG 165 Introduction to Human Geography

Miranda Wilson
Faculty • Lionel Hampton School of Music2 Projects:
- • MusC 239/240 Aural Skills
- • School of Cello Playing: A new translation of Carl Davidoff's Violoncell-Schule
Shenghan Xu
Faculty • Business and EconomicsOM 370/470 Process Management / Supply Chain Management
Mitchell Gibbs
Undergraduate • Lionel Hampton School of MusicLeonard Feather Blindfold Tests

Katrina Eichner
Faculty • Culture, Society and Justice2 Projects:
- • Idaho Public Archaeology
- • Initial development for Idaho Public Archaeology project

Erin James
Faculty • EnglishPalouse Digital Scholarship Symposium

Ricky Baldridge
Graduate • EnglishPalouse Digital Scholarship Symposium

Kit Stokes
Graduate • EnglishPotlatch Historical Society Collection

Rylee Robertson
Undergraduate • Business and EconomicsUniversity of Idaho: Then and Now

Vanessa Anthony-Stevens
Faculty • Curriculum & InstructionEDCI 302 EDCI 328

Katie Blevins
Faculty • Journalism & Mass MediaJAMM 458: Public Relations Research and Case Studies

Rebekka Boysen-Taylor
Faculty • Curriculum and Instruction2 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

Xiao Hu
Faculty • ArchitectureArch 483 Urban Theories & Issues

Ashley Kerr
Faculty • Global StudiesSPAN/LAS 306: Culture and Institutions of Latin America
Kathryn Pawelko
Graduate • EnglishEnglish 101, English 102, English 109
Spencer Manning
Graduate • Lionel Hampton School of MusicOral History Interviews with Lynn "Doc" Skinner

Sarah Campbell
Faculty • Theatre2 Projects:
- • Initial development for digital dramaturgy
- • Digital Dramaturgy

Jack Kredell
Graduate • English3 Projects:
- • Storying Extinction
- • Keeping Watch
- • Wilderness/Environmental Archive Analysis and Survey

Chris Lamb
Graduate • English2 Projects:
- • Storying Extinction
- • Keeping Watch
Samson Matthews
Undergraduate • Lionel Hampton School of MusicWhat Glass Shards Are Called

R.A. Borrelli
Faculty • Nuclear Engineering and Industrial ManagementNE450: Principles of Nuclear Engineering

Helen Brown
Faculty • Movement Sciences2 Projects:
- • MVSC 486/586- Healthy Active Lifestyles Assessment and Intervention
- • MVSC 486 and MVSC 586- Healthy Active Lifestyles Assessment and Program Planning

Sarah Bush
Faculty • AgricultureAgEd 251, CLDR 480, AgEd 450/550/CLDR 450

Janine Darragh
Faculty • Curriculum and Instruction2 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.

Leontina Hormel
Faculty • Culture, Society & JusticeWGSS 201: Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Destiny Angel-Hubble
Undergraduate • Lionel Hampton School of MusicElla Fitzgerald Collection

Jenn Ladino
Faculty • EnglishKeeping Watch

Cady Favazzo
Graduate • EnglishVandal Poem of the Day

Liam Marchant
Undergraduate • Lionel Hampton School of MusicGhana Music and Dance Initiative

Erin Geslani
Graduate • Cultural AnthropologyProcess the League of Women Voters of Moscow records

Michael Decker
Graduate • EnglishKeeping Watch

Bert Baumgaertner
Faculty • Politics and Philosophy2 Projects:
- • PHIL 312: Intro to Decision Theory
- • PHIL 312: Intro to Decision Theory

Bert Baumgartner
Faculty • Politics and PhilosphyDecision Theory

Matthew Grindal
Faculty • Culture, Society & JusticeCRIM 101: Introduction to Criminology and CRIM 420: Substance Use and Society

Lauren McCleary
Faculty • Art and ArchitectureART 100: Introduction to Art

Russell Meeuf
Faculty • Journalism and Mass MediaFTV 100: Film History & Aesthetics
Esther David
Undergraduate • Education and EnglishDoc Cheatham Collection
Dusty Fleener
Graduate • HistoryProcess the Palouse Empire Science Fiction Association records
Floriana Tulli
Graduate • English2 Projects:
- • Process the Women in Natural Resources collection
- • Wolf Reintroduction

Milo Muise
Graduate • EnglishMain Street Video

Aleksandra Hollingshead
Faculty • Curriculum and Instruction Department Chair, Special EducationEDSP 448/548

Alyson Roy
Faculty • HistoryHIST 344: The Roman Empire

Nick Koenig
Graduate • Earth & Spatial Sciences2 Projects:
- • The Chestnut Collective
- • CORS 246: Catalyzing Change: Co-Creating Climate Futures

Anne Yen
Graduate • Fish & Wildlife SciencesWestern and Clark's Grebe Breeding Lakes of North America

Grace Gardiner
Undergraduate • Culture, Society and JusticeWork on the Latah County Oral History Collection

Daniel Vargas
Graduate • HistoryProcess donation of materials related to the Weiser Old Time Fiddle Festival
Caroline Ludwig
Graduate • GeographyGeo-rectifying Historial Idaho Aerial Photographs
Cameron Nielsen
Graduate • TheatrePhotograph historic sites around Latah County to create an interactive map
Irene Koreski
Undergraduate • Lionel Hampton School of MusicAlice Coltrane, Jazz Spiritualism
Alicia Gladman
Graduate • EnglishTender Spaces
Dakota Steffen
Undergraduate • HistoryWork on transcription and process for several oral history collections
Brian Tibayan
Graduate • EducationProcess donation of materials from WWAMI
Kate Morrison
Graduate • Earth & Spatial SciencesProcess donation of materials from Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences.

Jamaica Ritcher
Faculty • EnglishENG 201: English Grammar Key Concepts and Terms

Kristin Haltinner
Faculty • Culture, Society and JusticeSOC 201: Social Problems
Alyssa Kreikemeier
Faculty • HistoryClassroom Space-based Archival Curriculum
Hannah Green
Graduate • EnglishSedimentation
Shelley Walker-Harmon
Undergraduate • HistoryNamesake Building Research and Campus Building Updates
Annie Sheneman
Graduate • EnglishProcess Dr. Richard Wells papers
Ash Hunter
Graduate • ArcheaologyProcess donation of historic photos from Forest Service
Marwa Elsayed
Graduate • Political ScienceProcess Wildlife Resources Department records

Idaho Wilderness and Democracy: Experiments in Visualizing Citizen Testimony
Adam SowardsVisualizing and analyzing citizen testimony via textual analysis of hearings documents from the Wilderness Act...
Initial development for Lost Lit Lab
Zachary Turpin
Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium
5 contributorsIn past years CDIL has co-hosted a week-long Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium with Washington State...

CTRL+Shift
2 contributorsData-driven exploration of oral history interviews with 11 prominent contemporary American poets
MUSC 241/242 Theory of Music III
Sean ButterfieldCreate on original, interactive, digital textbook to teach students music theory.
PSYC 101 Introduction to Psychology
Kacy PulaAdapting an open stax textbook to PSYC 101.
EDCI 201 Contexts of Education
Ingrid SpenceUtilized open resources and course resereves to create a zero cost syllabus.
MATH 123 Mathematics Applied to the Modern World
Judith TerrioAdapting an open textbook for MATH 123.

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

Lost Lit Lab
Zachary TurpinSearching out lost literature via early digital media and programmatic searching techniques
Initial Develpment for Idaho Wilderness Hearings work
Adam Sowards
Historical Japanese Comparative Ceramics Collection (HJCCC)
Renae CampbellDigital collection that identifies and describes Japanese ceramics manufactured during the Meiji and Taisho eras...

Closure of Syringa
Denessy Rodriguez2018 CDIL Undergraduate fellow Denessy Rodriguez ('19 Sociology & Anthropology) spent her fellowship developing a...
CHEM 253 Quantitative Analysis
Peter AllenAdapting an open textbook and OER for CHEM 253.
EDCI 328 Idaho Histories
Rebekkah Boysen-TaylorAn ebook written by Boysen-Taylor and Marco Seiferle-Valencia that uses primary archival objects and documents...
MusC 241 / 242 Music Theory
Sean ButterfieldCustomizing an previously created interactive, digital textbook to teach students music theory.
PHYS 111 General Physics I
Ross MillerUsing Open Stax Physics textbooks for PHYS111
GEOG 165 Introduction to Human Geography
Thomas PtakUsing open course ware for GEOG 165.
MusC 239/240 Aural Skills
Miranda WilsonCreating a custom music theory textbook.
OM 370/470 Process Management / Supply Chain Management
Shenghan XuUsing OER and open textbooks for OM 370.

Leonard Feather Blindfold Tests
Mitchell GibbsA digital collection of transcribed interviews between Leonard Feather and renown jazz artists.

Idaho Public Archaeology
Katrina EichnerWeb and data-based exploration of public archaeology data from a Moscow, Idaho archaeological dig at...

Initial development for Idaho Public Archaeology project
Katrina EichnerPotlatch Historical Society Collection
Kit StokesAssisted with the improvement of the Potlatch Historical Society Collection

University of Idaho: Then and Now
Rylee RobertsonRephotography project documenting prominent sites from the University of Idaho Campus.
EDCI 302 EDCI 328
Vanessa Anthony-StevensDr. Anthony-Stevens will develop a resource tentatively title Honoring Indigenous Histories: A Reader for Teachers....
JAMM 458: Public Relations Research and Case Studies
Katie BlevinsDr. Blevins will identify and create OER to support JAMM458, a Public Relations research-based course....
EDCI 328 Elementary Social Studies Methods, EDCI 302 Teaching Culturally Diverse Learners, EDCI 432 Secondary Social Studies Methods Course,
Rebekka Boysen-TaylorWorking in close collaboration with the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation, Boysen-Taylor will create a series...
Arch 483 Urban Theories & Issues
Xiao HuDr.Hu will identify and create OER, as well as Library resources, to replace multiple textbooks...
SPAN/LAS 306: Culture and Institutions of Latin America
Ashley KerrDr. Kerr will develop a collection of openly licenses materials (OER) to create a culturally...
English 101, English 102, English 109
Kathryn PawelkoPawelko’s work will focus on creating culturally responsive course syllabi and lesson plans for English...

Oral History Interviews with Lynn "Doc" Skinner
Spencer ManningA digital essay presenting a series of oral history interviews conducted with Doc Skinner, an...

Initial development for digital dramaturgy
Sarah Campbell
Storying Extinction
2 contributorsStorying Extinction: Responding to the Loss of North Idaho’s Mountain Caribou is a multidisciplinary digital...

What Glass Shards Are Called
Samson MatthewsThis project presents the poem and musical composition What Glass Shards Are Called, a collaboration...
NE450: Principles of Nuclear Engineering
R.A. BorrelliDr. Borrelli will continue development of an OER for fundamental nuclear engineering knowledge.
EDCI 328, EDCI 302, EDCI 432, EDCI 463
Rebekka Boysen-TaylorBoysen-Taylor will develop materials that support creating open assignments for elementary educators.
MVSC 486/586- Healthy Active Lifestyles Assessment and Intervention
Helen BrownDr. Brown will create an open source workbook to support students in developing their skills...
AgEd 251, CLDR 480, AgEd 450/550/CLDR 450
Sarah BushDr. Bush will create and adapt open materials to replace traditional texts in AgED251.
EDCI 448/548: Introduction to ENL in the K-12 Schools
Janine DarraghDr. Darragh will create an open syllabus that transitions EDCI 448/548 from a traditional text...
WGSS 201: Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Leontina HormelDr. Hormel will adapt an open textbook for WGSS 201, Intro to Women's, Gender and...

Ella Fitzgerald Collection
Destiny Angel-HubbleA digital exhibit celebrating Fitzgerald’s fashion and style through her clothing, photographs, and album covers....

Digital Dramaturgy
Sarah CampbellAnnotation and interpretation framework for dramaturgical work

Keeping Watch
4 contributorsA “deep” spatial, historical, and biocultural setting of the fire lookout tower in Idaho

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

Ghana Music and Dance Initiative
Liam MarchantAn active database of music and dance from across Ghana.
Process the League of Women Voters of Moscow records
Erin GeslaniYear 1, 2021: Awarded to Erin Geslani, an MA student, to process the League of...
PHIL 312: Intro to Decision Theory
2 contributorsWriting a complete open text on Decision Theory.
Decision Theory
Bert BaumgartnerA conceptual introduction to and open textbook on decision theory used in his own classes....
MVSC 486 and MVSC 586- Healthy Active Lifestyles Assessment and Program Planning
Helen BrownCreating an interactive workbook to support student progress over the semester.
OER for outreach, service, and research in conjunction with English teachers from crisis contexts around the world.
Janine DarraghCreate fresh OER entries on OERCommons to transition content from a locked in app to...
CRIM 101: Introduction to Criminology and CRIM 420: Substance Use and Society
Matthew GrindalDevelop course readers that support these two courses utilizing existing open texts.
ART 100: Introduction to Art
Lauren McClearyCreating a zero cost syllabus for a high-enrollment Introduction to Art Course - Art 101....
FTV 100: Film History & Aesthetics
Russell MeeufBuilding a zero cost or very low cost film studies course that still utilizes contemporary...

Doc Cheatham Collection
Esther DavidA digital exhibit featuring photographs, newspaper articles, letters, clothing, and jazz charts of trumpeter Adolphus...

School of Cello Playing: A new translation of Carl Davidoff's Violoncell-Schule
Miranda Wilsonhttps://uidaho.pressbooks.pub/violoncellschule/

Process the Palouse Empire Science Fiction Association records
Dusty FleenerYear 2, 2022: Awarded to Dusty Fleener, a PhD student, to process the Palouse Empire...

Process the Women in Natural Resources collection
Floriana TulliA second award was given in 2022 because there was a strong candidate pool. The...

Main Street Video
Milo MuiseMain Street Video presents 34 oral history interviews captured in 2021 exploring the phenomena of...
EDSP 448/548
Aleksandra HollingsheadDeveloping open reading list to replace outdated and high-cost textbook.
HIST 344: The Roman Empire
Alyson RoyCreating a zero-cost version of course materials, combining primary source documents and objects with ebook...

The Chestnut Collective
Nick KoenigA sociocultural and sociopolitical research project tracking the blight and subsequent loss of the American...

Wolf Reintroduction
Floriana TulliA multimodal essay exploring various dimensions surrounding the wolf controversy: a coalescence of regional viewpoints...

Western and Clark's Grebe Breeding Lakes of North America
Anne YenA summary of Western and Clark’s Grebe breeding data at state, provincial, and regional scales...

Work on the Latah County Oral History Collection
Grace Gardiner
Process donation of materials related to the Weiser Old Time Fiddle Festival
Daniel VargasDaniel arranged and described accession, creating metadata that allowed for a public-facing finding aid. He...

Geo-rectifying Historial Idaho Aerial Photographs
Caroline LudwigCaroline geo-rectified and in some cases digitized, historical air photo’s in the U of I...

Photograph historic sites around Latah County to create an interactive map
Cameron NielsenTranslated a printed map of historic sites, created by the Latah Preservation Commission, into a...

Alice Coltrane, Jazz Spiritualism
Irene KoreskiA digital collection exploring Alice Coltrane's contributions to jazz spiritualism, showcasing a rare oral history...

Tender Spaces
Alicia GladmanA multi-lingual, multimodal essay on Gaëtane Buttigieg's life, art, and forced institutionalization in the 1970s....
Work on transcription and process for several oral history collections
Dakota Steffen
Process donation of materials from WWAMI
Brian TibayanFellow arranged and described accession, creating metadata that allowed for a public-facing finding aid. He...

Process donation of materials from Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences.
Kate MorrisonFellow arranged and described accession, creating metadata that allowed for a public-facing finding aid. She...
ENG 201: English Grammar Key Concepts and Terms
Jamaica RitcherCreating a zero cost syllabus for ENGL 201 - English Grammar: Key Concepts and Terms....
SOC 201: Social Problems
Kristin HaltinnerCreating a zero cost syllabus for SOC 201 - Social Problems. This fellowship will create...
CRIM 329: Homicide
Kristine LevanThis fellowship will focus on identifying new Open and other zero cost solutions for CRIM...
CORS 246: Catalyzing Change: Co-Creating Climate Futures
Nick KoenigCreating a zero cost syllabus for CORS 246 - Catalyzing Change: Co-Creating Climate Futures
Classroom Space-based Archival Curriculum
Alyssa KreikemeierSedimentation
Hannah GreenSedimentation is a multimodal project which seeks to recognize, represent, and story the central role...
Namesake Building Research and Campus Building Updates
Shelley Walker-HarmonProcess Dr. Richard Wells papers
Annie ShenemanProcess donation of historic photos from Forest Service
Ash HunterProcess Wildlife Resources Department records
Marwa ElsayedWilderness/Environmental Archive Analysis and Survey
Jack KredellCreation of a high-level survey of current Special Collections holdings that align with a potential...