Chris Sauerwald is a graduate research assistant for UB's DSSN, assisting faculty with Digital Humanities and digital scholarship projects. Chris formerly worked for Temple University in an instructional support technology position and later in educational technology/media for a private secondary school. He most recently worked for Stony Brook University Libraries on their Digital Projects team building digital collections and exhibits such as Jacob K. Javits: Life & Legacy, Otto Ege: Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, and Understanding the Hispanic Patient, among others. He is also the former chairperson of SBU's Center for Digital Humanities. He holds a BA in multimedia from Temple University and is currently pursuing an MSLIS from UB. Research interests include IIIF, digital collections and exhibits of cultural heritage items, digitization, oral histories, GIS/mapping, NLP, text mining, data visualization, web development, audio/video multimedia, and LGBTQ+ archives and collections.