Kelsey Moran

Kelsey Moran

Assistant Professor, University of Miami

CLAUDE.md

CLAUDE.md

Site Overview

Academic personal website for Kelsey Moran, built with Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. Based on the academicpages template (fork of Minimal Mistakes theme).

Live at: https://kelseymoran.github.io

Key Files

  • _config.yml — Site-wide settings (author info, collections, plugins)
  • _data/navigation.yml — Top nav bar links (currently: Research, CV)
  • _pages/about.md — Homepage (permalink: /)
  • _pages/publications.md — Research page (permalink: /research/)
  • _pages/teaching.html — Teaching page (permalink: /teaching/, not yet in nav, says “Under Construction”)
  • _teaching/template.md — Blank template for adding teaching entries
  • files/ — PDFs (CV, papers, posters)
  • images/profile.png — Profile photo

How It Works

  • Pages live in _pages/. Collections (teaching, publications) have their own _ directories.
  • Navigation is defined in _data/navigation.yml.
  • The research page uses raw HTML (not the publications collection) for paper listings.
  • The sitemap is auto-generated by jekyll-sitemap on every build.
  • Deployment: push to main and GitHub Pages rebuilds automatically.

Local Development

Requires Ruby via rbenv (installed at ~/.rbenv/versions/3.2.4):

eval "$(rbenv init - zsh)"
bundle exec jekyll serve

Site serves at http://localhost:4000.

Things to Know

  • The _includes/, _layouts/, and _sass/ directories contain theme infrastructure. Avoid editing unless necessary — components are interconnected.
  • Template utility files remain in the repo (README.md, CHANGELOG.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, package.json, _config.dev.yml, LICENSE) but don’t affect the live site.
  • _site/ is in .gitignore — it’s the build output, regenerated on every build.