Megan A. Winget
Teaching Assistant Professor
Expertise
Digital preservation, digital repositories and collecting institutions, representation of non-textual materials, collaborative technologies.
Education
BA, University of Georgia, Athens
MA (Art History), University of Virginia, Charlottesville
MS (Information Science), UNC School of Information and Library Science
PhD (Information and Library Science), UNC School of Information and Library Science
Biography
Dr. Megan Winget earned her Master of Science in Information Science (MSIS) from SILS in 1999 and completed her PhD at SILS in 2006. While at Carolina, she worked in the University Archives, the Southern Historical Collection, the Rare Book Room, and for Documenting the American South. From 2006 to 2013, she taught at the University of Texas at Austin, where she specialized in digital preservation, specifically of new media artifacts like video games and new media art. Since 2013, she has worked as an independent consultant for industry, focusing on taxonomy development and leveraging big data to improve business systems. As an adjunct faculty member at SILS, she has taught classes in digital curation, digital preservation, and organizing information.