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About Melissa Chim
I am the first Scholarly Communications Librarian at Excelsior University where I both created and manages the university’s scholarly publishing platform and institutional repository. I hold an MLIS from St. John’s University and an MA in History from Queen Mary, the University of London, and hold certificates in open education and Creative Commons licensing. I was a SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow for their 2022-23 cohort, a Society for Scholarly Publishing Fellow for 2024, an ASAPbio Fellow for 2024 , and a member of the Fulbright Specialist Roster from 2024-2027. I co-authored the OER textbook entitled Living Archives: A History of the Center for Christian Spirituality, and wrote the OER Past Makes Perfect. I was also named an Associate Fellow with the Royal Historical Society in 2026. My interests include historical fiction and researching primary sources!
NBN Episodes hosted by Melissa:
November 2, 2026
Before He Was Red
Ottoman Empire, 1876. Amid the political turbulence of the summer of three sultans, a Belgian woman and the future Sultan Abdul Hamid II secretly marr…