Duke Management Academy Scholars

Liz Milewicz

Title: Librarian, Dept. Head & Center Director
Department: Digital Scholarship & Publishing Svcs.
Entity: Duke University
Class Year: 2020

Bio:
Liz Milewicz heads the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Services department in Duke University Libraries. Her team, including interns from regional library school programs and Duke graduate students, partners with the Duke community on digital research, teaching, and publishing projects (http://library.duke.edu/digital) and provides training and consulting in digital approaches to scholarship. She helped to plan and launch a new space for research, called The Edge: The Ruppert Commons for Research, Technology, and Collaboration (http://library.duke.edu/edge), where project teams pursue interdisciplinary, data-driven, and digitally reliant research. Currently Liz co-leads Project Vox (http://projectvox.org), a digital publication and educational initiative that seeks to reform and diversify philosophy instruction. In 2019 Liz took on co-directorship of ScholarWorks (http://scholarworks.duke.edu), a collaborative center for supporting open, fair, and sustainable publishing.

Before coming to Duke in 2011, Liz managed two NEH-funded digital humanities projects at Emory University (The Expanded Online Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, http://slavevoyages.org; and African Origins, http://african-origins.org) and worked with the Emory Libraries on a range of digital library initiatives, including a cross-institutional effort to create openly searchable records of archival holdings. Liz earned her doctorate at Emory as well, where she studied the evolving culture, role, and soundscape of academic libraries.

Life at home for Liz involves gardening (somewhat for family and pets but mostly for the local wildlife), going for walks, listening to podcasts, baking and cooking, and reveling in her husband's and daughter's fantastic sense of humor.