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John White
Director
PhD, University of Florida, U.S. History. White is the Dean of Libraries at the College of Charleston. He was recently director of the College of Charleston’s Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) and the project director of the Lowcountry Digital Library (LCDL). He also served as the Associate Dean for Special Collections and supervisor of Digital Initiatives at the College of Charleston's Addlestone Library.

Leah Worthington
Co-Director
MA, College of Charleston, History. Worthington is the Digital Projects Librarian for the College of Charleston, coordinating the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative and the Lowcountry Digital Library.

Tyler Mobley
Technical Director
MLIS, University of South Carolina. Mobley is the Digital Services Coordinator for the Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston and the co-director of the Lowcountry Digital Library.

Heather Gilbert
Digital Collections Manager
MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and MLIS, University of South Carolina. Gilbert is the Associate Dean of Collection and Content Services for the College of Charleston Libraries and the co-director of the Lowcountry Digital Library.

Graduate Assistants
LDHI graduate assistants from the College of Charleston History M.A. Program acquire exhibition materials and provide design and editorial assistance for developing LDHI online exhibitions.

Current 
Paige Little, 2022-2024
Marisa Reel, 2023-2025
  

Former Staff 

Mary Battle
Co-Director, 2013-2016
PhD, Emory University, Graduate Institute for Liberal Arts, M.A., University of Mississippi, Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Battle was the Public Historian at the College of Charleston's Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. 

Amanda Noll
Project Coordinator
MA, University of South Carolina, Public History. Noll has worked in several museums including the McKissick Museum in Columbia, South Carolina, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.

Graduate Assistants

Brenna Reilley 2021-2023
Abigail Rice,  2020-2022
Mills Pennebaker, 2019-2021
Cappy Yarbrough 2018-2020
Grayson Harris, 2018-2019
Ashley Hollinshead, 2017-2018
Colby Causey, 2017-2018
Tayler Sargent, 2017
Monica Bowman, 2016-2017 
Jamie Mansbridge, 2016-2017
Leah Worthington, 2015-2016
Ciera Gordan, 2014-2015   
Rachel Morse, 2014-2015  
Harry Egner, 2014-2015  
Bradley Blankemeyer, 2013-2014 
Andrew Cuadrado, 2013-2014 
Beth Gniewek, 2012-2014