About Us
The Alyson Archives truly began to take shape as a result of the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS), an intensive, week-long workshop hosted by Davidson in the summer of 2023. This event brought together a team of Davidson faculty, staff, and students who set out to create a means of curating the works produced by Alyson Books.
In spring of 2024, the "Humanities Startup," a Digital Studies course offered at Davidson College, continued to build out this project. Twelve students, one instructor, and several of the college's librarians and archivists collaborated on the site to drastically grow the Archive's offerings, expanding the number of texts that viewers are able to explore on the site while curating exhibits that provide additional contexts surrounding Alyson's works. These exhibits multiply ways in which visitors to the site can learn and interact with the publisher, its publications, its authors, and its history.
Project Director
Jon Heggestad, Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Studies Program at Davidson College
Project Liaison
Sara Mohr, Digital Scholarship Librarian at Hamilton College
Archival Specialist
Jessica Cottle, Justice, Equality and Community Archivist at Davidson College
Archive & Site Advisors
Jacob Heil, Assistant Director of Digital Learning at Davidson College
Tiffany Camp Johnson, Digital Scholarship Librarian at Davidson College
DebbieLee Landi, College Archivist & Records Management Coordinator at Davidson College
Student Leads
Abby Pompeo, Davidson College, class of 2025, B.A. in Economics
Tom Roff, Davidson College, class of 2025, B.A. in Computer Science
Student Contributors
Emma Buehrer, Davidson College, class of 2024, B.A. in Digital and Screen Media Studies
Blake Craig, Davidson College, class of 2025, B.S. in Computer Science
Taylor Dykes, Davidson College, class of 2024, B.A. in English
Josie Lambert, Davidson College, class of 2025, B.A. in Communications
Alex Meyers, Davidson College, class of 2025, B.A. in Biology
Chinedu Okeke, Davidson College, class of 2024, B.S. in Computer Science
Abby Pompeo, Davidson College, class of 2025, B.A. in Economics