CIDC Staff List
Database and Systems Administrator Michael Creedon is a Database and Systems Administrator at CIDC. Prior to joining Cornell University he gained experience as an IT consultant for several companies and projects. Mike also worked as an Apprentice Oracle DBA/Project Administrator for Avatar Technology, and as a Senior Systems Administrator for Stevens Institute of Technology. Mr. Creedon holds a B.A. in Social Relations from Cornell University, and an M.A. in Social Sciences from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He also studied with the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU's Tisch Graduate School of the Arts. Digital Photographer
Rhea Garen has recently joined the Cornell Institute for
Digital Collections in the role of digital photographer.
She has worked for many years in scientific research
laboratories using microscopes, digital imaging and
conventional photography. In addition, Rhea is a color fine
art photographer who has exhibited work locally and
nationally. Her educational background includes a BA in
Biology from Cornell University and considerable coursework
in art, photography and graphic design. Currently she
is involved in a project to digitize the A.D. White
Collection of 19th century architectural photographs.
Digital
Imaging Specialist Manager, Digital Himalaya Project Mark Turin was trained in Social
Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, took a First
Class degree in 1995, and thereafter spent a year cataloguing
Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf's ethnographic films. Then he
joined the Himalayan Languages Project at Leiden University,
the Netherlands, to write a grammar of Thangmi, a hitherto
undescribed Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal.
His doctoral dissertation, which is almost complete, offers an
analysis of the grammar of the Thangmi language supported by
glosses texts and a comprehensive lexicon of the two main
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