Patrick Rashleigh
Head of Digital Scholarship Technology Services
Patrick Rashleigh is the Head of Digital Scholarship Technology Services at the Brown University Library, where he leads a development team that collaborates with faculty to create digital scholarly products. He is technical lead on the Stolen Relations project, which seeks to document instances of historical enslavement of Indigenous people. He is also an instructor and teaches a variety of classes on communication, analysis, and digital technology to students, faculty, and staff. He has degrees in English and Ethnomusicology.
Projects and UX activities
Patrick is co-Principle Investigator (with the Brown University Herbarium) of the HerbUX project, an IMLS-funded design project that seeks to propose new interfaces to digital Herbarium collections based on user research. HerbUX is itself the culmination of an ongoing investigation of visualizing digital Herbarium collections on large-scale display walls.
He is also involved in numerous CDS projects—including being technical lead on Stolen Relations, a community-centered database project that seeks to illuminate and understand the role the enslavement of Indigenous peoples played in settler colonialism over time.
Classes and advising
Patrick teaches the following classes (among others):
- Getting started in Data Visualization
- Regular Expressions: Search and Replace with Advanced Pattern Matching
- Using ChatGPT to learn Python Programming
- Poster Design and Rhetorical Arguments with Visualizations
- Maps as Visualizations
- Prototyping your website or interface
He regularly meets with faculty, students, and staff to think about the use of web technology for communication and interaction in the academic context.
