Posted December 9, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager
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Fellowship Appointment
From an incredibly strong and diverse group of applicants, we are very proud to announce that Kelly Tuttle has been selected as our next Manuscript Data Curation Fellow, beginning a 22-month appointment funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Kelly will be working primarily on creating descriptive metadata for member institutions with previously undescribed (and underdescribed) manuscript materials. She will also be assisting with data processing and enrichment, educational outreach to members and the community, and ongoing projects related to promoting and expanding the work of DS.
Kelly Tuttle received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, focusing on premodern Arabic commentary literature. Her main interests are Islamicate manuscripts, particularly helping to identify items in North American collections and making them more accessible. She has worked as the project cataloger for the Manuscripts of the Muslim World project, as a freelance cataloger for whomever wants help identifying what is in their collections, and as an instructor with Rare Book School, co-teaching an intensive summer Islamicate manuscripts class. Along the way, she taught Arabic at Earlham College and more recently at Macalester College. She looks forward to working with Digital Scriptorium to advance their union catalog and discovery project!