Maya Cole '25, 2025-2026 Fellow

Maya majored in Computer Science with a focus in Digital Arts. She brings user experience design, graphic design and front-end web development. At the DALI Lab, Maya partnered with stakeholders to create various digital tools. She’s no stranger to the Libraries, already working with Leanne Litsios on website user testing.

The Edward Connery Lathem '51 Digital Library Fellow joins the Digital by Dartmouth Library team for a full year, to learn about, engage in, and contribute to the work of the Library's digital programs. The position, open to recent Dartmouth graduates, is flexible to fit the skills and interests of each individual fellow, and could include a larger independent project designed by the fellow.

Josie Harrison ‘25, 2025-2026 Fellow

Josie is a double major in Film & Media Studies and Geography, with a minor in Asian Societies Cultures, and Languages (ASCL). Hailing from Usk, South Wales, she has a keen interest in sports media and documentaries. Recently, Josie was awarded the James Joseph Kaplan Filmmaker of the Year Award by the Dartmouth Film and Media Department.

The Jones Memorial Digital Media Fellowship provides an opportunity for a graduating student or recent graduate of Dartmouth College to spend a year learning digital media technology as applied to the academic curriculum and careers in librarianship. The fellowship may be tailored to the individual interests of the candidate where their skills support the mission of the Jones Media Center.

Sophie-Marie Chadha '25, 2025-2026 Fellow

Sophie studied English and neuroscience at Dartmouth and is interested in how literary and cognitive fields approach understanding thought, perception, language, memory, and development. Special Collections played an integral role in her undergraduate coursework: revisiting beloved childhood stories through Rauner’s illustrated first editions for ‘Victorian Children’s Literature’ reignited a curiosity that evolved into archival research with Rudyard Kipling’s short story “Wee Willie Winkie” and culminated in an honors thesis titled Forty Winks Later: The Dream of the Nation in the Children’s and Adult Literature of Kipling and Rushdie. As an assistant at Rauner during her senior year, she paged materials for classes on a range of topics that she would otherwise never have had the chance to explore.

An aspiring educator, Sophie strives to create learning environments that similarly spark students’ curiosity in the collections. She combines innovative material pairings with active learning activities to supplement students’ analytical toolkits, making what they’re studying more tangible by foregrounding the essential relationships between form, content, and audience. Sophie has designed and facilitated classes on ‘Romantic Era Literature,’ ‘The Rise of the Novel,’ ‘Moby Dick,’ WWI French-American correspondence, 18th-century anatomy, and Robert Frost. 

Building off her passions, Sophie is currently processing a collection of artworks by Victorian children’s illustrators and curating an exhibit on Transportive Literatures. The exhibit will explore escapist genres and portable literary forms to consider the impact of when and where we read on our engagement with narratives.

The Edward Connery Lathem ’51 Special Collections Fellowship offers recent Dartmouth graduates an opportunity to work in Rauner Special Collections Library and gain valuable experience with archives, manuscripts and rare books. The fellow will work on a major project or several smaller projects tailored to his or her skills and interests while gaining a general overview of a career in special collections.