The Librarian and Faculty Advisory Board

Dominic Broadhurst

Head of Content & Discovery at The University of Salford

Dominic Broadhurst Dominic Broadhurst is Head of Content & Discovery at the University of Salford, where he both leads the library content and digital teams. He is passionate about delivering high quality affordable content to students and faculty, embracing both open principles and increasing the diversity and range of library material offered.


Jon Cawthorne

University Librarian

Jon Cawthorne Jon E. Cawthorne, Ph.D. has served in library leadership positions at Wayne State University Library System which includes the University’s School of Information Sciences and West Virginia University.  He has a Ph.D. in managerial leadership in the information professions from Simmons University and is passionate about supporting healthy organizational cultures, increasing Black, Indigenous People of Color into leadership positions in the information and publishing industries and bringing new, diverse voices to publishing.  Cawthorne is a past President of the Association of College and Research Libraries and remains positive about the future.

Monique Vogelsang

Educational consultant, speaker, and curriculum writer

VogelsangMonique Vogelsang works as an educational consultant, speaker, and curriculum writer, developing culturally expansive curriculum for primary and secondary teachers — including an innovative Grades K-8 Racial Literacy Curriculum, as well as a newly released Grades K-6 curriculum, in partnership with Aperture and Angélica Dass, for her book, The Colors We Share. As a consultant for Authentic Education — the creators of Understanding by Design® — Monique served as a Subject Matter Expert for the Washington D.C. public school system, working with a team of educators and scholars to develop the country’s first anti-racist Social Studies State Standards. An experienced speaker, Monique has facilitated workshops at national and regional conferences and associations, such as the NAIS People of Color Conference, NYSAIS, NJAIS, NWAIS, AISGW, and ISAS. 

Kadian Pow

Lecturer in Sociology and Black Studies, Birmingham City University

Kadian Pow Dr Kadian Pow has over 8 years for university teaching experience, and more than 20 years’ experience in informal museum education. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Birmingham City University. Her main interests include Black feminism in online spaces, television, fandoms and representation, intersectionality, the sociology of Black hair and identity, and museum decolonisation efforts. Kadian’s expertise in popular culture, feminism, representation and race has been featured in The Conversation, USA Today, BBC’s Women’s Hour, Ok Player Magazine, and Yahoo! Kadian is one of Canvas 8 Expert consultant in culture and an external researcher for a joint project between Birmingham Museums Trust and Beatfreeks on decolonising the museum.

Charles Watkinson

Associate University Librarian and Director of the University of Michigan Press

Charles Watkinson Charles Watkinson oversees the Publishing division of University of Michigan Library. This includes being director of the University of Michigan Press, which publishes around 100 books a year; oversight of a publishing services unit that hosts the works of other publishers on its Fulcrum open-source platform; and oversight of the Deep Blue repository and research data services unit. With a background in archaeology and anthropology, Charles has a strong commitment to digital preservation and is interested in issues of ownership, access, and credit. His publishing career includes positions in commercial and society publishing, as well as within university presses and libraries. He has recently served as president of the Association of University Presses and has also been on the Board of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. He was an initiator of the Library Publishing Coalition and is on the Boards of the OAPEN Foundation and Open Access Book Data Trust, which both advance open access book publishing.

Shahrzad Khosrowpour

Coordinator of Acquisitions and Cataloging, Chapman University

Shahrzad Khosrowpour Shahrzad received her bachelor’s degree in food engineering from Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey), and her Master of Library Science degree from Texas Woman’s University (Denton, Texas). She has been with Chapman University and the Leatherby Libraries since August 2014 as the coordinator of Acquisitions & Cataloging. She is also the subject liaison for the Department of World Languages & Cultures, Peace Studies, and International Studies. Her academic interest for the past 22 years in the library profession has been focused on academic libraries and information management and has successful international, national, and regional presentations on this topic. She considers library science a multidisciplinary field that can be applied to different research areas. She has taken advantage of this in her library career and has shown research interests and publishing in science, business, world languages & cultures, as well as library science. Shahrzad is also dedicated to bringing awareness of Middle East culture and literature and to this end she is contributing book reviews to the Middle East Librarians Association which is indexed in JSTOR.