Pauline Saliga has been Executive Director of the Society of Architectural Historians since 1995 when the Society moved its national headquarters from Philadelphia to the Charnley-Persky House in Chicago. Saliga holds a Master’s degree in Museum Practice from University of Michigan and an undergraduate degree in art history from Northern Illinois University. For the first eighteen years of her professional life, Ms. Saliga was a curator of 19th and 20th century art, architecture and design, first at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and later in the Department of Architecture at The Art Institute of Chicago. For the past five years Ms. Saliga has been developing online academic resources for the Society of Architectural Historians with start up funding from NEH and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Those online resources include the following: (1) JSAH Online, one of the first multimedia scholarly journal platforms. The platform has been acquired by JSTOR for its Current Scholarship Program. (2) SAHARA, the first user-contributed, peer-reviewed image archive for teaching and research. The platform that SAH developed has been scaled up by ARTstor and serves as its new Shared Shelf system that enables universities to share images across their many departments. (3) SAH Archipedia, an online library of building histories documenting the entirety of architecture in the US. Developed with University of Virginia Press, SAH Archipedia will launch in April 2012. Currently, Ms. Saliga is strategizing with her board about how to bring the field of architectural history more fully into the digital humanities world and how to give SAH members the tools they need to innovate in that world.
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