Our People
Hours of Operation
MON – FRI: 9AM – 5PM
SAT – SUN: CLOSED
Location
John B. Coleman Library – Room 111
Prairie View, Texas 77446
Evelyn Kay Todd RISE Graduate Research Assistant
A graduate student in the Business Administration program, Evelyn works as a Graduate Research Assistant for the Digital PV Panther Project. She has processed and digitized the content of over 20+ counties for the Cooperative Extension & Home Demonstration Collection. She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Evelyn graduated from PVAMU in May 2021 with a bachelor’s of Arts in Mass Communications. Evelyn has served as the team leader of the DPPP since 2023.
Archival Assistants From June 2022 to May 2023
Lindsay Boknight
Noah Jackson
Malachi McMahon
Zynitra Durham
Hannah Harden
D'Asia Johnson
Kasedi Eason
Caleb Brookins
DeZhane Johnson
Kalayah Jammer
Kennedy Jackson
Hollie Brown
Briana Johnson
Kiliyana Williams
Jaylynn Brantley
Kendall Douglass
Allena Preston
project director
Dr. DeWayne Moore
assistant professor of history in the division of social sciences
Dr. Moore is the director of the DPPP, and he has worked as a digital media strategist and curated digital exhibitions in various platforms, such as Wordpress, ContentDM, and Omeka. As the executive director of the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund, a Mississippi non-profit dedicated to historic preservation, he has organized several community-engaged research and participatory memorialization projects. He has published peer-reviewed articles in the The Public Historian and UNC-Chapel Hill’s Southern Cultures journal, and he recently published five essays in an edited volume for the University Press of Mississippi. For more information, please visit his website or his bepress page in the John B. Coleman Library.
The Staff
- Sabrina Francis is a Library Associate in the John B. Coleman Library, and she works closely with the students in the digitization lab. Her efforts over the past year to improve the workplace environment inside the John B. Coleman Library have been crucial to the success of the Digital PV Panther Project.
- Henry Koshy is a Scholarly Communication Librarian at Prairie View A & M University (PVAMU). He holds an MLIS (Master in Library Science) from Texas Women’s University. Though he briefly worked in labor law, Koshy later worked in software and hardware sales and support. Finding his passion as a media specialist, he provides leadership for the Scholarly Communication Program, which includes institutional repository services, copyright and author rights’ education, digital publishing services, open access publication, and open education resources.
- Karl Henson is the assistant director of John B. Coleman Library at Prairie View A&M University, and this project developed out of his prior experiences with grants for digital preservation. The success of the Digital PV Panther Project is due in no small part to his guidance and availability on a range of issues about our headquarters.