Michael J. Hemment, Ph.D. | email
Over the past ten years, I’ve been privileged to work closely with numerous academic departments, instructional technologists, libraries, faculty and students on evaluating and implementing the latest research technologies to advance teaching and learning. I am currently Head of Research and Learning Technology for the Harvard College Library.
Recent Projects/Activities:
- Interview for Berkman IS2K7 Conference
- Harvard College Library Workshop: Social Tagging@Harvard: Del.ici.ous Alternative or Passing Flickr?
- Web Consulting: academic department and course Web pages, humanities computing projects, distance learning sites.
- Video Series: on special collections in Harvard University libraries and museums.
- Supervising: HCL Presidential Instructional Technology Fellows
- DVD Authoring: “In the Stacks of Despair” video for new GSAS students at Harvard
- Inter Libros: Research Guide for Classics & Medieval Studies
- Reel Research: Research Guide for Film Studies
- Rinascimento: Research Guide for Renaissance Studies
My interest in academic research technology developed while completing my doctorate in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard. In addition to working on course Web sites for the department, I became Project Manager of the Decameron Web at Brown University, a NEH-sponsored humanities computing project. At Brown, I collaborated with the Scholarly Technology Group on adding a series of new pedagogical and metadata tools to an electronic version of Boccaccio’s great literary work.
Education
MLIS, Simmon College, 2006
Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 2002
M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 2000
Bachelor of Arts, Cornell University, 1998.
Business/Management Courses: Boston University, Simmons College, UMASS Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management, Harvard’s Center for Workplace Development.
Affiliations
Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard University
Database of Classical Bibliography Advisory Board
Association of College and Research Libraries
American Philological Association
Dante Society of America
