Jesse Johnston
Clinical Assistant Professor at National Recording Preservation Foundation
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Johnston is a clinical assistant professor and archivist with a decade of experience bridging digital preservation, archives management, and cultural heritage grantmaking. He has led digital collections work at institutions including the Library of Congress and NEH, designed curricula in digital curation, and now teaches at the University of Michigan while advising the National Recording Preservation Foundation. His practice spans project design, grant strategy, and hands-on digitization and description of audiovisual materials, with a particular research focus on Czech culture and the cultural study of music. Notably, he built NEH’s first community-based archiving grant line and has consulted on Mellon-funded digitization assessments, reflecting a rare mix of policy, pedagogy, and operational expertise. Based in Ann Arbor, he combines scholarly training (PhD in Musicology) with practical digital preservation skills to support research access and long-term stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen Arts Academy at Interlochen Center for the ArtsMSI, Archives, Records Management, Digital Preservation, MSI, Archives, Records Management, Digital Preservation at University of Michigan - School of InformationCertificate, Czech Language and Slavic Studies, Certificate, Czech Language and Slavic Studies at Masaryk UniversityPhD, Musicology, PhD, Musicology at University of MichiganSummer School of Slavic Studies, Charles University
Czech, German, Spanish, Filipino
Github Skills (38)
markdown10
stable10
spreadsheet10
data-management10
tidy10
gitpod10
github-pages10
jekyll10
data-cleaning9
reconciliation8
alpha8
lorem-ipsum8
openrefine8
expressions7
data-wrangling7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
morskyjezek/BloggerSNATools
Jul 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 6 months
morskyjezek/digcur
Feb 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:237 commits, 220 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 7 months
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