Sophia Lafferty-Hess

Program Coordinator for Research Data Management

I coordinate DUL Research Data Management services and the Duke Research Data Repository curation program. I specialize in data management best practices including organizing data, documenting data, citing data, and archiving and sharing data. I have a background working in a social science data archive where I curated data for long-term preservation and reuse. I earned a BA in History and Classical Studies from the University of Arkansas and earned a Master of Science of Information Science and Master of Public Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.