Design and Development Team

Professor Rebecca Benefiel —
Project Director

  • Professor of Classics at Washington and Lee University.
  • Visiting Professor, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, 2024.
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Professor Sara Sprenkle —
Technical Director

  • Associate Professor of Computer Science at Washington and Lee University
  • Interests: web application development and testing and software engineering

Professor Holly Sypniewski —
Assistant Director

  • Professor of History, Clarkson University
Mackenzie Brooks

Mackenzie Brooks —
Metadata Consultant

  • Associate Professor, Digital Humanities Librarian at Washington and Lee University

Spring 2024 Web Applications Course Team

  • Danish Bokhari ’24
  • Mohamed Elhussiny ’24
  • Chaz Jackson ’25
  • Liz Kent ’25
  • Michael Kharadze ’26
  • Connor Lehman ’25
  • Bezawit Mengistu ’25
  • Linh Nguyen ’25
  • Julia Raskin ’24
  • John Schleider ’24
  • Lakpa Sherpa ’25
  • Jack Sorenson ’25
  • Ignas Volcokas ’25
  • Ben Wechsler ’25

2022-2023

  • Grace MacDonald ’23 – Lead Web Application Developer

Spring 2023 Web Applications Course Team

  • Jared Cordova ’23

2019-2021

  • Trevor Stalnaker ’20 – Lead Web Application Developer

Spring 2019 Web Applications Course Team

  • Emily Cohen ’19 – Administrative Tools Specialist
  • Pepe Estrada-Hamm ’19 – Indexing Specialist
  • Bancks Holmes ’19 – Indexing Specialist
  • Trevor Stalnaker ’20 – Data and EpiDoc Specialist
  • Joe Wen ’19 – Administrative Tools Specialist

Summer 2018

  • Abigail Nason ’20 – Map Visualizations Specialist
  • Trevor Stalnaker ’20 – Data and EpiDoc Specialist

Summer 2017

  • Hammad Ahmad ’19 – Data and Epidoc Specialist
  • Cooper Baird ’19 – Elasticsearch Specialist
  • Kelly McCaffrey ’19 – Map Visualizations Specialist

Summer 2016

  • Alicia Martinez ’18 – Lead Developer
  • Michael Dik ’19 – Web Interface Specialist

Spring 2016 Web Applications Course Team

  • Azmain Amin ’17
  • Lenny Enkhbold ’17
  • Sima Sharma ’18
  • Mina Shnoudah ’17

2015-2016

  • Jamie White ’17 – Lead Developer

Academic Year 2014-2015

Spring 2014

  • Patrick Hennis – Responsive Design, worked on project while a junior at Rockbridge County High School, created responsive design for application

Summer 2013

  • Paul Jang ’15 — Lead Developer, developed prototype to search graffiti of Pompeii, I.8

Spring 2013 Web Applications Course Team

  • Onye Ekenta ’15 – Map specialist
  • Paul Jang ’15 – Map specialist
  • Ginny Huang ’14 – Layout specialist
  • Anton Reed ’14 – Database specialist