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Dieyun Song

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Dieyun Song, PhD is the Research Data Management Librarian at Northwestern University. She leads and oversees the development and delivery of data management services to faculty, students and staff across disciplines. She provides consultation and training through the entire research lifecycle with data management planning, acquiring open and licensed datasets, data curation, and sharing research data to increase reproducibility and assure compliance with federal mandates. As a trained Historian and Digital Humanist, Dr. Song is especially interested in lowering the barrier of entry for low-code and less-technical audiences to integrate innovative methodologies into complex digital scholarly inquiries. Additionally, she is driving the Data Library initiative to expand access to information in the form of readily usable datasets to reduce the startup time and permit direct investigation of research questions.

Dr. Song holds a PhD in History from the University of Miami, where she was a Data Strategist focusing on advancement initiatives in philanthropy relations and donor pipeline optimization prior to joining Northwestern Libraries faculty. Her research and teaching interests include philanthropy, development, U.S.-Latin American Relations, and Digital Humanities. Her doctoral dissertation examines the formation and exertion of American philanthropic soft power in mass media development, education reform, and population health in Cold War Colombia. She was a Digital Humanities Fellow for WhatEvery1Says and Digital Narratives of Covid-19, as well as the co-founder of the Digital Humanities Research Institute at the University of Miami. The results of Dr. Song’s work have been published in various avenues, including Cuarto congreso de la Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (AAHD) and Journal of Open Humanities Data. Her scholarship has been generously supported by the John F. Kennedy and Lydon Baine Johnson Presidential Libraries, the Rockefeller Archive Center, and the Tinker Foundation, among others.