Dr. Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh leads the Georgia State University Library's Research Data Services (RDS) Department. She hails from the Hoosier state (Indiana), earning her M.L.S from Indiana University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Purdue University, where she focused her master's degree research on striptease/erotic dancing  and her doctoral dissertation research on anti-prostitution crusades in Progressive-Era Chicago. Her professional background has been quite varied, including working as an academic librarian in a small, liberal-arts college and university settings, as a public librarian, and here and there as an adjunct professor in library science and sociology and gender studies. In addition to uncovering the lost histories of Atlanta's Progressive-Era prostitution trade via her Historic Harlots of Old Atlanta digital scholarship project, Dr. Mandy has worked with the Georgia State University Library's Women’s/Gender & Sexuality Collections Archivist to launch a Burlesque Oral History Project. In her non-work time, Dr. Mandy is chanteuse and accordionist in a trad jazz band (The Absinthe-Minded Professors) and writes short fiction and humor essays under a penname.