https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8293-7125
EDUCATION cecilia smith’s curriculum vitae
PhD in Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2014
MA in Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2011
MS in GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, with Distinction,
University College London, 2007
BA in Archaeology, cum laude, Boston University, 2005
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Director of Digital Scholarship, Senior Librarian III: The University of Chicago Library, 2021-Present
GIS and Maps Librarian, Librarian II: The University of Chicago Library, 2018-2021
Geospatial Librarian, Clinical Assistant Professor: Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A&M University, 2015-2018
Postdoctoral Research Associate: Chicago Area Geographic Information Study, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2014
PUBLICATIONS
Smith, C. Map Trade in Southeast Asia. In History of Cartography: Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Roger J. P. Kain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Forthcoming 2025.
Smith, C. Exploration and Mapping. In History of Cartography: Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Roger J. P. Kain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Forthcoming 2025.
Smith, C. and Kolak, M. Visualizing Public Health Data: Using the U.S. Covid Atlas and GeoDa for Spatial Insights. In Cantwell, L. and Parece, T., eds. Spatial Literacy in Public Health: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Collaborations. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries. 2024.
Smith, C. Spatial Analysis of the Late Bronze Age Metal Hahotrim Artifacts. In Wachsmann, S., ed. Late Bronze Age Metal Artifacts off Hahotrim, Israel. Texas A&M University Press. 2024.
Smith, C. Ethics and Best Practices for Mapping Archaeological Sites. Advances in Archaeological Practice 8, no. 2 (2020): 162-173.
Castro, F., Bendig, C., Gauthier-Bérubé, M.,Borrero, R., Budsberg, N., Dostal, C., Monteiro, A., Smith, C., Torres, R. Recording, Publishing, and Reconstructing Wooden Shipwrecks. Journal of Maritime Archaeology (2018) 13(1).
Smith, C. and Cochrane, E.E. 2011. Is Visibility Important for Defence?: A GIS Analysis of Sites in the Western Fijian Islands. Archaeology in Oceania 46 (2011) 76-84.
OPEN DATA
Smith, C. 2019. Geomasking Archaeological Site Points [Dataset]. http://dx.doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1932
BOOK REVIEW
Smith, C. 2015. [Review of the book Using Google Earth in Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians, by E.H. Dodsworth & A. Nicholson]. WAML Information Bulletin 47:1 (2015).
AWARDS & HONORS
Special Achievement in GIS Award: Esri, 2024
Provost’s Award: UIC Graduate College, 2012
Joshua Terry Graduate Award: UIC Department of Anthropology, 2010
Student Presenter Award: UIC Graduate College, 2010
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS cecilia smith’s curriculum vitae
National Science Foundation (NSF), Secure Hub for Access, Reliability, and Exchange of Data (SHARED), Senior Personnel, 2024-2026 [$499,998]
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant: Capital Project, UChicagoNode, Outreach and Training Lead, 2023-2027 [$1m plus commitment to fundraise $4m]
Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), GIS Librarians for Open Workflows (GLOW), PI, 2022-2023 [$133,992]
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Mapping Chicagoland, PI, 2022-2024 [$348,930]
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Resurrecting the 1970s Guerilla Television Movement, co-PI, 2021-2024 [$459,150]
TRELIS Fellow, University Consortium of Geographic Information Science, 2020
Texas A&M Triads for Transformation Seed-Grant, co-PI, 2018
Glasscock Center for Humanities Non-TT Faculty Research Fellowship, PI, 2017-2018
Glasscock Center for Humanities Research Collaborative Grant, PI, 2017
University Libraries Faculty Research Funding, PI, 2017
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Full Grant for Research in the Philippines, PI, 2012-2013
Luce Foundation Fellowship: UIC Department of Anthropology, Researcher, 2010-2011
INVITED LECTURES & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Data Project (co-presenter). MAGIRT and WAML Webinar. July 9, 2021.
Spatial Thinking in Digital Pedagogy and Research, Lighting Talk for Symposium for Teaching with Technology. April 22, 2021.
Geospatial & Data Librarianship. An invited lecture for the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, IL. February 17, 2020.
Envisioning a Geospatial Data Portal and Curation Network for Texas Academic Libraries. Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. Austin, TX. May 25, 2016.
Mapping Historic Aggieland. Center for Heritage Conservation Symposium. College Station, TX. February 27, 2016.
How can Caribbean and Atlantic Studies Work Together with Digital Humanities, and Visualization and Mapping Technologies? Caribbean and Atlantic Studies at Texas A&M Conference. Bryan, TX. October 24, 2015.
GIS Resources for Urban Planners. Art Libraries Society of North America Annual Conference. Ft. Worth, TX. March 22, 2015.
The Archaeological and Geological Landscapes of Bacong, Negros Oriental. Philippine-American Educational Foundation. Makati, Philippines. March 19, 2013.
The Cultural Landscapes of Bacong: A Study of Regional Land Use from Prehistory to Spanish Colonization. Binalot Speaker Series: University of the Archaeological Studies Program Philippines, Diliman: Quezon City, Philippines. December 8, 2012.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
GIS Librarians for Open Workflows. C. Smith and D. Sinton. Western Association of Map Libraries in Vancouver, BC. August 11, 2023
Navigating Consultation Challenges: Strategies for GIS Librarians Workshop. C. Smith and D. Sinton. Western Association of Map Libraries in Vancouver, BC. August 11, 2023
Reinforcing Skill Sets for GIS Librarians. C. Smith and D. Sinton. Esri Education Summit in San Diego, CA. July 2023.
GIS Librarian Workflows and Open Educational Resources. C. Smith and D. Sinton. UCGIS Symposium in New Haven, CT. June 2023.
Revealing Chicago’s Planning Past Digitally: Chicago Government Information Transformed for Access. Aldred, B., Seneca, T., Smith, C. American Library Association in Chicago, IL. June 26, 2023.
Reinforcing and Enhancing Skill Sets of GIS Librarians and other GIS Support Personnel (workshop host and presenter). C. Smith and D. Sinton. Association of American Geographer’s Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. March 23, 2023.
Preserving the Video Record with The Guerrilla Television Network. D. Erdman, S. Chapman, A. Hart, C. Smith. Digitizing Hidden Collections Symposium. October 13, 2022.
Collections, Collaboration, and Crowdsourcing: The BTAA Geoportal’s Diverse Collections Working Group (co-presenter). Western Association of Map Libraries. October 27, 2021.
Library GIS Services and Geoprivacy: Supporting Sensitive Geospatial Data Research. ACRL Digital Scholarship Section: Numeric and Geospatial Data Services Discussion Group Virtual Meeting. June 2020. Meeting Canceled.
Small Steps to Giant Leaps: Strategies for Creating Effective Graduate Information Literacy Programming. K. Anders, C. Smith, A. Dabrowski. LOEX Conference, New Frontiers: Exploring and Innovating in Uncharted Territory in Houston, TX. May 2018.
Ethics and Best Practices for Mapping Archaeological Sites. Annual Conference of the Society for American Archaeology in Washington, D.C. April 2018.
Early Modern Shipwrecks Database. F. Castro, C. Smith, R. Kumar. Society for Historical Archaeology Conference Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, January 6, 2018.
Data integration in the age of open-access. So now what? T. DeWitt, K. Rose, M. Bishop, S. Martin, J. Bauer, C. Smith. Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation 24th Biennial Conference. Providence, RI. November 6, 2017.
Depth & Breadth: Defining Geospatial Instructional Success. Western Association of Map Libraries. Austin, TX. November 3, 2017.
Opportunities and Challenges in Implementing a Consortial Research Data Repository. Presenters: S. Thompson, B. Herbert, and K. Park. Co-authors: S. Buckner, J. Donald, W. Arant Kaspar, N. Lauland, T. Peters, D. Rodgers, C. Smith, C. Starcher, R. Steans, R. Uzwyshyn, and L. Waugh. Digital Library Federation. Nov 7, 2016.
A Consortial Model for Research Data Services using Dataverse. Presenters: S. Thompson and K. Park. Co-authors: S. Buckner, J. Donald, B. Herbert, W. Arant Kaspar, N. Lauland, T. Peters, D. Rodgers, C. Smith, C. Starcher, R. Steans, R. Uzwyshyn, and L. Waugh. 11th International Conference on Open Repositories. June 13, 2016.
Diving into Data: Implementing a Data Repository at the Texas Digital Library. Moderator: S. Thompson. Panelists: K. Park, R. Steans, J. Donald, B. Herbert, E. Quigley. Co-authors: S. Buckner, J. Donald, W. Arant Kaspar, N. Lauland, T. Peters, D. Rodgers, C. Smith, C. Starcher, R. Uzwyshyn, and L. Waugh. Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. Austin, TX. March 31, 2016.
Mapping Historic Aggieland. Center for Heritage Conservation Symposium. College Station, TX. February 27, 2016.
Negotiating Power at the Spanish-Philippine Frontier: What Evidence of Indigenous Prestige Economies Reveals about Indigenous-Colonial Interaction. Society for American Archaeology. San Francisco, CA. April 17, 2015.
Spatial Autocorrelation and the Changing Organization of Social Inequality in Colonial Philippines. Society for American Archaeology. Austin, TX. April 19, 2014.
Non-Destructive Techniques at a Regional Scale: Using GIS & LA-ICP-MS to Investigate Spanish Colonization Processes on Philippine Social Organization. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association. Angkor, Cambodia. January 13, 2014.
The Spatiality of Sociopolitical Power On Negros Oriental, Philippines from the 15th Century CE through Spanish Colonization. Anthropological Association of America. Chicago, IL. November 20, 2013.
A Diachronic View of Mortuary and Settlement Evidence from the Dumaguete-Bacong Region of Negros Oriental, Philippines. 5th Annual Mid-Year Enrichment Conference for US Scholars and Students in Southeast Asia. Bangkok, Thailand. March 6-9, 2013.
The Bacong Archaeological Project: Investigating Metal Age Landscape Use on Negros Oriental, Philippines. Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, TN. April 18-22, 2012.
Using GIS to Identify Prehistoric Community Behavior Patterns: A Study of Visual Defensive Strategy in Western Fiji. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference in Granada, Spain. April 6-9, 2010.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
The Largest GIS Day: How a 3-Hour Booth turned into a 3-Day Event. S. Laddusaw, C. Smith, W. Arant-Kaspar, and D. Goldberg. American Library Association. June 2017.
NATIONAL SERVICE cecilia smith’s curriculum vitae
ACRL Digital Scholarship Section:
Advisory Group 2021-2022
Numeric & Geospatial Data Services Discussion Group, Convener 2021-2022;co-Convener 2020-2021
Peer Reviewer for the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2017-2021
Society for American Archaeology Ethics Committee, Member, 2018-2020
Great Lakes Science Bootcamp, Co-chair, 2019
Peer Reviewer for the Journal of Maps & Geography Libraries, 2018
Early Modern Shipwrecks Co-Developer, 2016-2017
DataQ Co-Editor, 2015-2017
Texas Digital Libraries Dataverse Implementation Working Group, Member, 2015-2016
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Committee on Research Data Management and Sharing:
Founding Member, UChicago, 2023-
Big 10 Academic Alliance Geoportal Task Force:
Steering Committee Member and Communications Committee Chair, 2019-2021
Diverse Collections Member, 2021
Impact Statement Report Working Group, 2020
Communications Committee Member, 2018-2020
GeoSAT Center:
Executive Committee & Service Division Leader, 2018
Member, 2015-2016
Diversity Open Data Build Day:
Planning Committee, Mentor, Judge, 2017
Mentor, 2016
GIS DAY at TAMU:
Planning Committee and Presenter, 2015-2017
LIBRARY SERVICE
Open Scholarship Working Group, 2024
Library Leadership Council, 2021-
Digital Collections Working Group, 2021-
Strategic Leadership Board, 2023-2024
Head of Research Data Services Search Committee, Chair, 2024
Digital Scholarship Librarian and GIS Librarian Search Committees, Chair, 2023
Director of Special Collections Search Committee, 2023
Head of Scholarly Communications Search Committee, Chair, 2022
Research Data Working Group, 2021-2023
Transformative Agreements Working Group, 2021-2022
Library Dean Search Committee, 2021
Esri’s Libraries Steering Committee, 2021
Promotion and Reappointment Subcommittee, 2019-2021
AUL for Research & Learning Search Committee, 2019
Bylaws Committee Member, 2018-2019
Faculty Executive Committee Secretary, 2016; Chair 2017
Instructional Toolkit Task Force Member and Liaison, 2016-2017
Council on Library Instruction Member, 2015-2017
Digital Assets Management Exhibits Subcommittee Member, 2015
SERVICE AS GRADUATE DEGREE COMMITTEE MEMBER
3 Doctoral Dissertations
4 Master’s Theses
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
GIS Researcher: Trapeang Archaeological Project, University of Illinois-Chicago, 2014
GIS Researcher: Chicago Area Geographic Information Study, University of Illinois-Chicago, 2013-2014
Project Director: Historical Malangwa Archaeology Project, Philippines, 2013
Archaeologist: Bacong Archaeological Project, Philippines, 2010-2012
GIS Research Assistant: Proyecto Arqueolόgico Norte Chico, Field Museum, Chicago, 2009-2010
Archaeologist: R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, 2007-2009
GIS Research Analyst: Proyecto Arqueolόgico de Taraco, UCLA, 2007-2008
GIS Research Analyst: Knossos Urban Landscape Project, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 2007
MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
Collections Aide: Museum of Peoples and Cultures, 2002-2003
Volunteer: Museum of Peoples and Cultures, 2001
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Administrative Coordinator: Archaeological Institute of America, 2005-2006
Publications Assistant: Archaeological Institute of America, 2004-2005
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Library Association (ALA)
Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)
Research Data Access and Preservation Association (RDAP)
Western Association of Map Libraries (WAML)
Illinois GIS Association (ILGISA)
SOFTWARE & PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe GoLive
ArcGIS for Desktop, Online, and Server
ArcPad
AutoCAD
Easel
Eclipse
Filemaker
IDRISI
Inkscape
Google Earth
Google SketchUp
GRASS
gvSIG
Landserf
Microsoft Office
Omeka
OpenRefine
Paradox
SPSS
Tableau Public
TerraSync
ZIP+4
Python
QGIS
R
Raiser’s Edge
Repast
WordPress