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This site is created and maintained by Janice W. Fernheimer, Doug A. Boyd and Kopana Terry.
Janice W. Fernheimer is the Zantker Charitable Foundation Professor and Director of Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Stepping Into Zion: Hatzaad Harishon, Black, Jews and the Remaking of Jewish Identity (University of Alabama Press 2014) and co-editor along with Michael Bernard-Donals of Jewish Rhetorics: History, Theory, Practice (Brandeis University Press 2014). She has published essays in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, College English, Journal of Communication and Religion, Computers and Composition Online, Argumentation and Advocacy, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Technical Communication, and Oral History Review. She moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 2010 and actively participates in Lexington's Jewish life. Along with co-founder Dr. Beth L. Goldstein and research collaborators Dr. Douglas A. Boyd, and Sarah Dorpinghaus she established the Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence (JHFE) Jewish Kentucky Oral History Project, a repository of 119+ oral histories for Jewish Kentuckians housed at the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History. In collaboration with author/illustrator JT Waldman, she is currently authoring an archives and oral-history based transmedia project America's Chosen Spirit which includes a webcomic and podcast series that detail the influences of Jews and other minorities on the Kentucky bourbon industry.Contact: jfernheimer@uky.edu
Doug Boyd Ph.D. directs the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries and is a recognized leader regarding oral history, archives, and digital technologies. He recently managed the Oral History in the Digital Age, which was funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The project established current best practices for collecting, curating, and disseminating oral histories. Boyd currently leads the team that envisioned, designed, and is implementing the open-source Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS) system, which synchronizes text with audio and video online. He holds a PhD in folklore and ethnomusicology from Indiana University and previously served as the manger of the Digital Program for the University of Alabama Libraries, Director of the Kentucky Oral History Commission, and Senior Archivist for the oral history and folklife collections at the Kentucky Historical Society. He authors the blog Digital Omnium: Oral History, Archives and Digital Technologies, is the co-editor of the book Oral History and Digital Humanities published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2014, and Boyd is the author of the book Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community published in August 2011 by the University Press of Kentucky. Contact: doug.boyd@uky.edu
Kopana Terry is Oral History Archivist and Library Manager at the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries. She earned her BA (Photography) and MLIS at the University of Kentucky. Active in the UK Libraries' preservation, reformatting, and digital programs since 2001, Kopana managed the NEH funded National Digital Newspaper Program for Kentucky from 2007-2013, and created meta|morphosis: film-to-digital video lecture series. She was instrumental in the the Nunn Center's early digitization efforts and in 2007 co-authored "Large Scale Digitization of Oral History: A Case Study". Beyond her preservation, newspaper, grant, and audio-visual expertise are lives as photographer, producer, writer, artist, and musician. Contact: Kopana.Terry@uky.edu