Dr. Nicky Agate is Associate Dean for Academic Engagement and Principal Librarian at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, where she also serves as Editorial Director of CMU Press. Nicky’s research focuses on creating more equitable systems for scholarly evaluation, transforming academic culture through values-based decision-making, and fostering sustainable, ethical approaches to academic publishing. Nicky is currently spearheading the Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies (POEM), an IMLS-funded initiative curating and publishing OER for AI literacy in higher education. She is also a co-PI on the HuMetricsHSS project and on the Hewlett and Mellon-funded Values-Enacted Leadership Institute, which facilitates values-based approaches to academic evaluation and leadership. Before joining CMU in 2023, Nicky held leadership positions at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Columbia University Libraries, and the Modern Language Association. She has a PhD in French Literature from New York University and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa.
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