Daniel O'donnell
Past President at The University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolDaniel O'donnell is a senior academic leader and Professor of English at the University of Lethbridge with 18 years of experience mobilizing faculty, negotiating complex collective agreements, and chairing departments. He has a rare blend of scholarship in Digital Humanities, Open Science, and medieval textual studies alongside hands-on leadership reviving academic governance and building international communities of practice. As founding chair or president of multiple scholarly societies (Digital Medievalist, GO::DH, Humanities Data Inquiry) and past president of provincial and national faculty associations, he has led high-stakes bargaining, a six-week strike, and successful campaigns to strengthen union funds and member engagement. His work spans applied research in digital cultural heritage and the Semantic Web, sustained grant success (over $1M as PI), and repeated service chairing tri-agency review panels. Notable but less obvious is his track record of institutional sustainability: he helped make the TEI fully member-run, launched new publication and funding programs, and doubled its reserves during a recession.
18 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, English (Old English), PhD, English (Old English) at Yale UniversityB.A., English, Medieval Latin, Celtic Studies, B.A., English, Medieval Latin, Celtic Studies at University of Toronto - University of St. Michael's College
Dutch, English, Latin, old frisian, French, German, gothic, Italian
Github Skills (25)
text-encoding10
encoding10
xml10
google-scholar8
scientific-publications7
jekyll7
jekyll-theme7
open-access6
liquid6
zenodo6
academia6
flask5
research-data-management5
open-science4
python4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
caedmon5/HDI-site
May 2022 - Apr 2024
Jekyll Template - Mediumish
Contributions:1 PR, 141 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
mediumish-templatetemplatemediumishjekylljekyll-theme
caedmon5/OpenResearchCulture
Dec 2018 - Mar 2020
Build a Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line.
Contributions:3 releases, 38 pushes, 3 tags in 1 year 2 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
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