Alexa Frankelis: Data Science & Archives
ABOUT ME
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As a candidate in the M.S. in Library and Information Science program at Pratt Institute, I look through the lens of metadata management, data science, and information design to consider how information systems can either dismantle barriers to access or fortify them, and, when it’s the latter, how we can work to break those structures down for more equitable access.
My toolkit bridges library practice and data science. I program in Python, gather data through web scraping and APIs, design relational databases in SQL, and apply data analysis, visualization, and machine learning to understand collections and the people who use them.
I am an information systems professional who shows up for my community, learning about user groups and providing reference, description, and instruction services grounded in their lived experiences. Whether I am building metadata schemas, designing digital collections, or writing code to transform and analyze data, I work to make my systems generative places: not only where users can find themselves reflected back, but where they can take part as well.
CONTACTRESUME:
Education
M.S. Library & Information Science
December 2026 (Expected)
Pratt Institute
B.A. Art History & Criticism (Honors)
Summa Cum Laude
August 2020
Stony Brook University
B.F.A. Photography & Video (Dean’s List)
September 2015 - September 2018 (Degree not earned) School of Visual Arts
Employment
Senior Manager, LIFE Picture Collection, People Inc. (Formerly DotDash Meredith)
New York, NY
March 2025-Present
Manager, LIFE Picture Collection, DotDash Meredith New York, NY
March 2023-March 2025
Specialist, LIFE Picture Collection, DotDash Meredith
New York, NY
August 2021-March 2023
Art Handler, The New York Public Library
New York, NY
October 2019-July 2021
Visitor Services Assistant,
The Morgan Library and Museum New York, NY
March 2019-October 2019
Certificate
Silver Certificate, Artificial Intelligence & Digital Asset Management
April 2024
Rutgers University
Advanced Certificate, Advanced Digital Asset Management January 2023
Rutgers University
Certificate, Digital Asset Management
October 2022
Rutgers University
Selected Publications
2025 Performing Intelligence: A Review of Simone Natale’s Book Deceitful Media: Artificial: Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test, Issue 3 (Fall / Winter 2025), NYU Bridging Fields Journal
2023 The Guided Hand: Josefa Tolrà- Madge Gill; Visionary women, Museu Nacional d'art de Catalunya
2023 The Ghostly Other (Journal Article), Visionary
Women Art x Bric-a-Brac Magazine
2022 Sleepy Hollow: Then & Now, LIFE.com article (photography also featured)
2022 Revisiting the Sites of the Salem Witch Trials,
LIFE.com article
2021 Spirits & Suffrage, Feminine Macabre Vol. III
2021 The Ghostly Other (Essay), Issue 04, Fall 2021,
Speculative Arts Research Journal
2021 The “Ordinary” Witches of LIFE Magazine,
LIFE.com article
2021 Art and Occultism, The Vindication of The Feminist
Voice Since the End of the 19th Century, “Speaking
Martian” Collaborative Series, A*Desk Magazine x
Visionary Women Art
2020 The Gendered Narrative of Witch-Hunting Through
the Centuries, Crisis and Catharsis Journal, Stony
Brook University
(American Historical Association blog feature)
Selected Presentations / Conferences2021 The Ghostly Other (Lecture), Association for Art
History Annual, Association for Art History Annual
Conference, University of Birmingham,
Birmingham, England
2020 Senior Zoom Salon, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
2020 Spirits & Suffrage, CFP for the Emerging
Perspectives | UG and PG Masters Conference,
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Awards
2020 Stony Brook University, Staller Award For Excellence, Stony Brook, NY
2020 University of Edinburgh, Grant Recipient, Edinburgh, Scotland
Last Updated 10.15.2026