Sponsored by the Summer Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG)
DePaul University
July 2025 – September 2025

This study, The Rhetoric of Hybrid Publishing: Negotiating Legitimacy and Stigma in the Modern Publishing Landscape will examine the rhetorical implications of hybrid publishing, a model in which authors share financial and creative control with professional publishers, challenging established narratives of legitimacy, authority, and artistic value. It will explore how this model disrupts traditional hierarchies in the publishing industry and reconfigures authorship and credibility, creating new opportunities for marginalized voices. By analyzing the rhetorical frameworks that sustain conventional notions of literary legitimacy, the study will investigate how hybrid publishing complicates dominant discourses around cultural capital, gatekeeping, and creative agency in contemporary literary production.

Issued by the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
DePaul University
May 2025

Awarded in recognition of academic achievement for maintaining a GPA of 3.7 or higher. Presented at the Annual Honors Convocation during the recipient’s senior year.

Issued by the Library Publishing Coalition
University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
June 2021

Mavs Open Press was awarded the Accessibility Award for our publication, Applied Fluid Mechanics Lab Manual. The submissions were evaluated by the LPC Publishing Practice Awards Committee through a competitive selection process. Our submission was recognized for "demonstrating exemplary practices in publishing, with a strong emphasis on key publishing principles."

Issued by the American Library Association
June 2025

This six-week course on metadata fundamentals develops solid understanding of key concepts including descriptive, technical, and administrative metadata. The course covered metadata schemas, content standards, controlled vocabularies, and practical methods for metadata creation and transformation. We also learned how to plan and design a metadata project based on real-world scenarios, and how to describe content using appropriate standards and vocabularies.

Issued by CITI Program
DePaul University
May 2025
Credential ID: 69127880

The IRB Human Subjects Training is a mandatory educational program designed to ensure that researchers understand the ethical principles and regulatory requirements involved in conducting research with human participants. It typically covers topics such as informed consent, risk minimization, privacy and confidentiality, and the rights of research subjects. Completion of this training is often required before researchers can obtain Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for their studies.

Issued by Harvard University
May 2024

CopyrightX is a twelve-week networked course that has been offered annually since 2013 under the auspices of Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. The course explores the current law of copyright; the impact of that law on art, entertainment, and industry; and the ongoing debates concerning how the law should be reformed. Through a combination of recorded lectures, assigned readings, weekly seminars, live interactive webcasts, and online discussions, participants in the course examine and assess the ways in which the copyright system seeks to stimulate and regulate creative expression. 

Issued by the Public Knowledge Project
October 2018

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) develops Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open-source platform that supports open access scholarly publishing. For Journal Managers, OJS offers tools to manage submissions, peer review, publishing, and user roles, while allowing customization of journal settings and layout. It streamlines editorial workflows and promotes accessible, transparent research dissemination.