05: Deeds to Words: …

Chris Greer is Program Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation where he is responsible for digital data activities. Dr. Greer received his PhD from UC Berkeley and was a member of the faculty at UC Irvine for 18 years, where his research on gene expression pathways was supported by grants from the NSF, NIH and the American Heart Association. During that time, he was founding Executive Officer of the RNA Society. A member of the permanent staff at the NSF, he recently served as Executive Secretary for the Long-lived Digital Data Collections Activities of the National Science Board, and is currently Co-Chair of the Interagency Working Group on Digital Data.

Brent Shaw is the Princeton Coordinator of the Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics. Professor Shaw works on and teaches the history of the high and later Roman Empire. His main regional focus is the North African provinces of the empire. He has also worked and published on the demography and social history of the Roman family. His current research interest is the problem of sectarian violence in Christian communities in Africa in the age of Augustine. He has published articles in all of these areas and, more recently, a sourcebook on Spartacus and the Slave Wars. He is also currently involved in the first volume of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, a new world history text that is being written by faculty in the Department of History at Princeton.

Charles Watkinson is Director of Purdue University Press, a unit of Purdue University Libraries. He previously worked as Director of Publications at the American School of Classical Studies in Princeton, NJ. He has over 15 years experience in various scholarly publishing roles including management jobs in book distribution, marketing, and bookselling. By background an archaeologist, he also has extensive fieldwork experience in the Mediterranean region and has written and published on subjects related to the ancient world and on digital data. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Society for Scholarly Publishing and a member of the Library Relations Committee of the Association of American University Presses. He is currently working on an IMLS-funded research project on strategies for success in library-based publishing, in collaboration with colleagues from Georgia Tech and University of Utah, as well as Purdue.

Mark J. McCabe joined the School of Economics in 1998 after seven years with the U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust division. While at Justice, his responsibilities included analysis of anticompetitive practices, mergers, and federal economic regulation. During this time, he conducted research on a variety of topics in industrial organization. He also served as an adjunct professor at American University, teaching courses in microeconomics and game theory. Dr. McCabe’s research has appeared in various economics journals, including the American Economic Review and the Rand Journal of Economics, and is frequently cited in the business and science press.