Carol Chiodo is the Director of Distinctive Collections and Digital Scholarship at the Claremont Colleges Library. Carol's portfolio encompasses Special Collections and Archives, the Asian Library, Data and Digital Scholarship Services, Digital Initiatives, as well as Scholarly Communication. Before arriving at the Claremont Colleges, Carol was the Librarian for Collections and Digital Scholarship at Harvard University Library. Her work focuses on analyzing, developing, and applying digital and computational methods to special and digital collections. She is particularly interested in applying digital humanities methods to cultural heritage to increase access, improve discovery, and broaden creative and educational uses of collections as data. A former professor of Italian and French, she now teaches courses and workshops on cultural heritage and emerging technologies at a number of universities in the U.S. and abroad, including Yale, Princeton, University of Leipzig, NYU Abu Dhabi, Jagiellonian University, and Babes-Bolyai University. She currently serves on the boards of the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association and the Research Center for the Humanities at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University.
