She is also the co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Research and Informatics Scholarship (IRIS) center at SIUE, a facility devoted to digital humanities scholarship and education. Kristine’s research focus is the documentation and description of endangered minority languages, particularly those spoken in the Himalayas. Kristine has been undertaking documentation, archival, analytical, and revitalization work in Nepal for the past sixteen years, including a new endeavor (beginning summer 2015) to annotate and archive interviews and narratives collected from survivors of the April 2015 Nepal earthquakes.