Ellen is the South Asian Studies librarian at Princeton University and Assistant Project Lead for the Visualizing the Virus digital project. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago, and her research focuses on Malayalam language reform in 19th-century Kerala. Ellen is a curator for the Global Social Responses to COVID-19 web archive and a member of the task force for the American Institute of Indian Studies’ Digital India Learning (DIL) initiative. Throughout the pandemic, she has been collecting covid-related art from South Asia, including the Mithila art featured in the Visualizing the Virus project.