Jesse Johnston
Clinical Assistant Professor at University of Michigan - School of Information
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Johnston is a clinical assistant professor and archivist with a decade of experience bridging digital preservation, archives management, and cultural heritage grantmaking. He has led digital collections work at institutions including the Library of Congress and NEH, designed curricula in digital curation, and now teaches at the University of Michigan while advising the National Recording Preservation Foundation. His practice spans project design, grant strategy, and hands-on digitization and description of audiovisual materials, with a particular research focus on Czech culture and the cultural study of music. Notably, he built NEH’s first community-based archiving grant line and has consulted on Mellon-funded digitization assessments, reflecting a rare mix of policy, pedagogy, and operational expertise. Based in Ann Arbor, he combines scholarly training (PhD in Musicology) with practical digital preservation skills to support research access and long-term stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen Arts Academy at Interlochen Center for the ArtsMSI, Archives, Records Management, Digital Preservation, MSI, Archives, Records Management, Digital Preservation at University of Michigan - School of InformationCertificate, Czech Language and Slavic Studies, Certificate, Czech Language and Slavic Studies at Masaryk UniversityPhD, Musicology, PhD, Musicology at University of MichiganSummer School of Slavic Studies, Charles University
Czech, German, Spanish, Filipino
Github Skills (32)
markdown10
openrefine10
stable10
spreadsheet10
data-management10
tidy10
data-cleaning10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme9
github-pages9
html9
mailing8
alpha8
regex7
webscraping7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
morskyjezek/jezek-site
Apr 2021 - Apr 2025
Personal site themed with mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:8 PRs, 127 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years
mmistakesthemedmistakes
morskyjezek/BloggerSNATools
Jul 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 6 months
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