Katherina Fostano

Katherina is a digital scholarship curator and interdisciplinary researcher with 6 years of experience working in cultural heritage and higher education. She holds Masters degrees in both Art History and Information Science. Her interests lie in enhancing visual and digital literacy while implementing innovative solutions in contemporary learning. Katherina has worked at Fordham for the last 4 years as the Visual and Digital Resources Curator and currently serves as the Digital Resources Director for the Center of Medieval Studies. Her role is to institute, promote, and support new digital-based pedagogies amongst the faculty. This is something that she has accomplished by fostering collaboration between the Library, IT, and the Academic Computing Environment (ACE) at Fordham. This summer Katherina will be traveling to London as part of the Fordham Faculty Research Abroad Program to present her work on Linked Data and Digital Prosopography at the International Symposium on Digital Scholarship. This work is part of her collaborative DH project with Professor Maryanne Kowaleski, Medieval Londoners. Katherina has also collaborated with Professor Barbara Mundy on her seminal DH project, Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820. Finally, last Fall, Katherina teamed up with Professor Jo Anna Isaak and Artist Carleen Sheehan to create the online digital catalog for the student co-curated exhibition, Art for Arctic’s Sake.

EXPERTISE

• Streamlining Projects
• Data and Information Organization
• Metadata Standardization
• Oral & Written Communication
• Digital Curation
• Collection Building
  
• Contemporary Literacies
• Educational Technology
• Resources Management
• Instructional Design and Support
• Digital Instruction and Pedagogy
• Digital Scholarship

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

• PH.D. INNOVATION IN CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION-EXPECTED 2026
  Fordham University, Bronx, NY
• M.S. LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE – WITH DISTINCTION
  Pratt Institute, Manhattan, NY
• M.S. HISTORY OF ART AND DESIGN – WITH DISTINCTION
  Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
• ADVANCE CERTIFICATE–ARCHIVAL MANAGEMENT
  Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

GRANT AND AWARDS

• 2014-Morton D Flaum Memorial Scholarship, Pratt Institute, School of Library and Information
• 2014-Atkinson Memorial Fund, Pratt Institute, School of Library and Information Science.
• 2014-Book Conservation and Museum and Library research in Florence, Italy.
• 2019-Faculty Research Abroad Program Award, Fordham University
• 2020-Beacon Exemplar Award from Fordham United Student Government