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Christie Peters

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Department
Library
Name
Christie Peters
Pronouns
she/her/hers
Job Title
Head of Area Studies, Humanities, and Social Sciences Librarians
Phone Number
(314) 935-2756
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Bio

Christie began her work as Head of Area Studies, Humanities & Social Sciences Librarians at the WashU Libraries in 2019 and currently also serves as the Prison Education Project (PEP) Librarian. In addition to these roles, Christie presents nationally on neurodiversity and neuroinclusion in the workplace.

Before WashU, Christie began her career at the University of Houston (UH) (2009-2015) as a Science and Engineering Librarian, Science Research Coordinator, and Research Support Coordinator, respectively, and then served as the Head of the Science and Engineering Library at the University of Kentucky (UK) (2015-2019).

Christie holds a B.S. in Biology (UNC-Greensboro), a BA in History (North Carolina State University, PBK), an MLIS (UNC-Greensboro), and an MA in History (University of Houston).

Selected projects, activities, and accomplishments

  • Instruction (Classics, CollegeWriting1)
  • Omeka exhibition: Classic Elements: Ancient Greece and Rome in Washington University’s Special Collection
  • Participant in the Ithaka S+R Teaching with Data in the Social Sciences project
  • Peters, C., & Bick, Jessie M. (forthcoming). Academic Libraries Supporting Prison Higher Education. ACRL Books.
  • Peters, C. (Invited). 2023. “Neurodiversity, Invisible “Disability,” & Unconscious Bias: The Primary Obstacle to Neuroinclusion in the Workplace.” Webinar Series: Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM), Region 2.
  • Conference on Academic Library Management (CALM) (2023). “Becoming a Neuroinclusive Manager: Moving Beyond Awareness.”
  • Moore, J., Peters, C., Scott, D., Kleekamp, J. (2021). Teaching with data in the social sciences at Washington University at St. Louis: An Ithaka S+R local report.
  • Soohyung, J., & Peters, C. (2020). User needs assessment for research data services in a research university. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 52(3): 633-646.
  • Peters, C., 2020. Industrial milling and prolific growth of the Cistercian Order in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In S. Walton (Ed.), Fifty Years of Medieval Technology & Social Change (pp. 150-164). Routledge
  • Joo, S., & Peters, C. (2019). User needs assessment for research data services in a research university. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 52(3): 633-646.
  • Peters, C. (2016). Cistercian success & industrial milling infrastructure in twelfth-century France: An unrecognized dependency Master’s Thesis, History. University of Houston.
  • Peters, C. & Dryden, A. R., 2011. Assessing the academic library’s role in campus-wide research data management: A first step the University of Houston. Science & Technology Libraries 30(4): 387-403.
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