Staff
William Ferris, Project Director
William Ferris is the former Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities and presently serves as the Joel Williamson Professor, Senior Associate Director of Center for Studies of the American South, and Adjunct Professor in the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Co-editor of the monumental Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, published in 1989, Ferris is author of over 100 publications in folklore, American literature, fiction, and photography. In 1995, President Bill Clinton awarded Ferris the Charles Frankel Prize in recognition of his contributions to the public's understanding of the humanities. Bill Ferris also has received two major recognitions from the French government, a “Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters” in 1985 and an “Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters” in 1994. Rhodes College bestowed on Ferris an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 1997.
Charles B. Green, Technical Director
Charles currently serves as Associate Director for Academic Technology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Green holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William and Mary and is the author of several articles as well as essays. Green also serves as the Technical Director for the Walt Whitman Archive, a seminal digital humanities project dedicated to the life and works of Walt Whitman.
Jeffrey Pomerantz
Jeffrey Pomerantz is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information
and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
His research involves the management and operation of digital reference
services, and the integration of digital reference and digital
libraries. He teaches courses in Reference and Digital Libraries.
Dean Jeffrey
Dean is a master's candidate at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, works on the creation of EAD finding aids, the content tagging of manuscripts, and various imaging tasks. His interests include the American South and non-traditional museums.
Michael C. Habib
Michael worked on the information architecture team in designing the prototype for the 20th Century Southern Folklife Digital Archive. He is currently pursuing his M.S. in Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS) where he is the Carolina Academic Library Associate (CALA) at the R.B. House Undergraduate Library. Prior to that he was the CALA at the F. Stuart Chapin Jr. Planning Library. He is currently the president of the Student Chapter of the ALA at SILS and is offering instruction sessions at the Chapel Hill and Carrboro public libraries as part of a Community Workshop Series that is co-hosted by the University Libraries. Prior to attending SILS, Michael worked as a Reference Technician at the Northborough Public Library in central Massachusetts.
Lourdes Cueva Chacón
Lourdes Cueva Chacón is a MS in Information Science student presently working
on her master's paper, a user study on the information needs of Hispanic
parents in North Carolina. Her interests include user and usability studies,
user-centered design, and digital libraries.
Jesse Wilbur, Technical Producer
Jesse received his Masters degree in Information Science in 2005, and is currently pursuing a career in information architecture and interface design and development in New York. He has worked on projects for ibiblio.org, the U.S. Government's statistical agencies (as part of the GovStat Project), as well as IBM, About.com, and CBS.
Sarah Watts
Jennifer Bulger
Monica McCormick
Christine Granquist


