Cecilia Smith

Cecilia works with scholars and students to integrate digital methods into a broad range of academic projects. She directs the Center for Digital Scholarship and coordinates services across the library to support work with data, scholarly publishing, dissertation submission, digital collections, and research reproducibility.

Curriculum vitae | Projects

Smith, C. Map Trade in Southeast Asia. History of Cartography: Cartography in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Forthcoming.

Smith, C. Exploration and Mapping. History of Cartography: Cartography in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Forthcoming.

Smith, C. Ethics and Best Practices for Mapping Archaeological Sites. Advances in Archaeological Practice 8, no. 2 (2020): 162-173.

Castro, F., Bendig, C., Gauthier-Bérubé, M.,Borrero, R., Budsberg, N., Dostal, C., Monteiro, A., Smith, C., Torres, R. Recording, Publishing, and Reconstructing Wooden Shipwrecks. Journal of Maritime Archaeology (2018) 13(1).

Smith, C. and Cochrane, E.E. 2011. Is Visibility Important for Defence?: A GIS Analysis of Sites in the Western Fijian Islands. Archaeology in Oceania 46 (2011) 76-84.

Cecilia is PI on the Mapping UChicago Project and the GIS Librarians for Open Workflows Project (GLOW), and co-PI on the Guerrilla Television Project. Cecilia served as a member of the BTAA Geospatial Data Task Force, serving on the Steering Committee and as Chair of the Communication Committee. She was also co-convener of the ACRL Digital Scholarship Section's Numeric and Geospatial Data Services Discussion Group, and supported the US Covid Atlas as a member of the Coalition Design & Communications Team.

Doctor of Philosophy, Anthropology
University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, IL

Master of Arts, Anthropology
University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, IL

Master of Science, GIS & Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
University College London | London, UK

Bachelor of Arts, Archaeology
Boston University | Boston, MA