Curriculum Vitae

Professional experience

• Consult with students and faculty on digital research, data, visualization, web publishing, preservation, and computational methods.
• Teach graduate courses and workshops in programming, research computing, and AI-assisted development.
• Serve as liaison for Computational Linguistics, Data Science, Data Visualization, Demography, Digital Humanities, and Geography/GIS.
• Co-direct the CUNY AI Lab; designed and built the CAIL Gateway for shared model access, routing, policy, attribution, and quotas.

• Built a responsive CUNY+ catalog interface and API and developed Augur for reference statistics.
• Automated catalog operations, provided reference service, taught information literacy, and led programming workshops for CUNY librarians.

Education

• MA, Liberal Studies, Digital Humanities — CUNY Graduate Center, 2016
• MS, Library and Information Science — Palmer School, Long Island University, 2010
• Bachelor of Liberal Arts — St. John’s College, 2008

Grants and awards

• 2025
  Principal Investigator, Provost’s Innovation Grant, “Enhancing Web Accessibility Through Multimodal LLM Analysis” — $10,000
• 2023
  Co-Principal Investigator, NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for DHRIFT — $300,000
• 2019
  Manager of Open Educational Resources, NEH Advancement Grant for the Digital Humanities Research Institute — $250,000
• 2017
  Coordinator and workshop leader, NEH Start-Up Grant for the Digital Humanities Research Institute — $60,000
• 2015
  Co-Principal Investigator, NEH Start-Up Grant for DH Box — $60,000
• 2014
  Principal Investigator, ACERT Faculty Innovations in Teaching with Technology Grant — $2,000

Publications and guidelines

• 2026
  Stephen Zweibel. Do Artifacts Still Have Politics? Technological Determinism and Professional Agency in Academic Libraries' AI Transformation. portal: Libraries and the Academy.
• 2025
  Stephen Zweibel. Evaluating AI Tools in Research Systems. CUNY Library Research Artificial Intelligence Task Force.
• 2022
  Stephen Zweibel. Automating reference consultation requests with JavaScript and a Google Form. Code4Lib Journal.
• 2020
  Roxanne Shirazi, Stephen Zweibel. Documenting digital projects: Instituting guidelines for digital dissertations and theses. College and Research Libraries.
• 2020
  Stephen Zweibel. Scraping BePress: Downloading Dissertations for Preservation. Code4Lib Journal.
• 2017
  Stephen Zweibel, Patrick Smyth. DH Box and Access in the Digital Humanities. dh+lib.
• 2012
  Stephen Zweibel, Zachary B. Lane. Probing the Effects of Policy Changes by Evaluating Circulation Activity Data at Columbia University Libraries. The Serials Librarian.

Selected presentations and instruction

• 2026
  “Harnessing Agentic AI: Tools for Open University Infrastructure.” In Building Community-Oriented Infrastructures for AI Experimentation, Association for Computers and the Humanities.
• 2026
  “Evaluating AI in Library Discovery.” CUNY library presentation.
• 2025
  “What Happens When ‘Hacking’ Becomes Easy? Teaching Python in 2025.” Digital Humanities 2025, Lisbon. Panelist.
• 2025
  “Introduction to JavaScript.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Montreal. Instructor.
• 2024
  “DHRIFT: Digital Humanities Resource Infrastructure for Teaching Technology.” Digital Humanities 2024, Washington, DC. Poster with Lisa Rhody.
• 2024
  “Web APIs with Python.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Victoria. Instructor.
• 2019
  “Digital Humanities Research Institute.” Association for Computers and the Humanities, Pittsburgh. Panelist.
• 2018–19
  “Web APIs with Python.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Victoria. Instructor.
• 2017
  “DH Box.” Digital Humanities 2017, Montreal. Poster with Jojo Karlin and Patrick Smyth.

Teaching

Service

• Chair and primary author, CUNY Libraries Research Artificial Intelligence Task Force, 2024–25
• Author, Evaluating AI Tools in Research Systems, approved by the CUNY Office of Library Services, 2025
• Member, CUNY Graduate Center IT Committee
• Chair, Mina Rees Library Web Services Steering Committee
• Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities digital humanities grants, 2016 and 2024
• Reviewer, Graduate Center Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant proposals, 2017 and 2025

Technical areas

AI infrastructure and model evaluation; Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript; web applications and APIs; data analysis and visualization; digital preservation; library systems and metadata.