Patricia Hswe is the program officer for Public Knowledge at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which she joined in 2016. Previously, she worked in the libraries at Penn State University, where she co-founded the department of publishing and curation services (now the department of research informatics and publishing) and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was program manager for grant initiatives funded by the Library of Congress and by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Originally a Russian literature scholar, Patricia holds a PhD from Yale University in Slavic languages and literatures. She also received an AB in Russian language and literature from Mount Holyoke College and an MS in library and information science from the University of Illinois. Patricia has headed a variety of committees in professional associations, including the Committee on Information Technology, in the Modern Language Association, and is currently a member of the Executive Council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.

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