DIGITAL IMAGERS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Head of the Digital Research Library at the University

Edward Galloway is head of the Digital Research Library at the University of Pittsburgh; a position held since 2000. He coordinates, plans and manages digitization activities within the University Library System. Prior to this appointment, he served as archivist at Carnegie Mellon University, processing and digitizing the congressional papers of Senator John Heinz. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with his Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS) at Georgetown Tx, with a B.A. in History in 1989. He served as principal investigator for several grant projects, including a 2002-04 IMLS library-museum collaborative grant to digitize thousands of images for the Historic Pittsburgh website. He is a membner of the Society of American Archivists and Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference and publishes regularly at these forums.

Job Titles:

• Fellow of the World Academy of Art

Jeffrey H. Schwartz, a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, is Professor of Physical Anthropology and of History and Philosophy of Science as well as a Resident Fellow in the Center for the Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History and in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and a Visiting Professor in the Institute of Anthropology, University of Vienna. His research spans topics in evolutionary biology (systematics, phylogeny, and paleontology of mammals, particularly primates), developmental and theoretical biology, and forensic anthropology and osteology. He has traveled extensively throughout the world on archeological and paleontological expeditions as well as to study of the remains of fossil and living primates (especially prosimians and hominoids). For almost twenty years his services as forensic osteologist have been sought by coroners offices and police departments throughout western Pennsylvania, which led to his being asked to put together and direct a collaboration to reconstruct George Washington at three different ages for a new education center at Mount Vernon. He has published more then 150 articles, reviews, etc, in the areas outlined above, as well as 10 books, including most recently The Red Ape: orangutans and humans origins (second revised edition, Westview Press, 2005), Sudden Origins: fossils, genes, and the emergence of species (John Wiley, 1999), and with Ian Tattersall, the first study of virtually all human fossils as three volumes in the series, The Human Fossil Record (Wiley-Liss, 2002, 2003, 2005); the second, revised edition of his textbook, Skeleton Keys: an introduction to human skeletal morphology, development, and analysis (Oxford University Press), will be published in 2006.

Lori Hepner, is an American, Interdisciplinary artist working primarily in conceptually based fine art photography and photo installations. Her work has been exhibited widely in the United States including exhibitions at Duke University, Houston Center for Photography, and the Brooklyn Museum's @1stsfans project, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Westmoreland Musium of American Art, among others. Her work has been featured in Exposure Magazine and the Center for Photography at Woodstock's PQ#99. She was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Silver Eye Center for Photography's Fellowship Competition in 2008 and was selected to participate in Descubrimientos PHE at PhotoEspana 2010 in Madrid Spain. This exhibit subsequently traveled to other southern cities in Spain. She is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, earning the MFA in Digital Media in 2005 and BFA in Fine Art Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2003. She lives in Pittsburgh and teaches as a faculty Assistant Professor of Integrative Arts at the Penn State local campus.