Kristen Eschenfelder

Biography

Kristin Eschenfelder is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Information School.  She is a scholar of data curation, and recently finished a Sloan Foundation funded study of sustainability and social science data archives which appears in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology as “Financial maintenance of social science data archives: Four case studies of long-term infrastructure work”  She enjoys teaching future librarians about database design and program assessment.