JULY 14-18, 2014 - PITTSBURGH, PAAbout AERI: Archival Education and Research Institutes
Funded by two four-year grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, annual week-long Archival Education and Research Institutes (AERI) are hosted by partner institutions. Past institutes were held at UCLA in 2009, University of Michigan Ann Arbor in 2010, Simmons College in 2011,UCLA in 2012, and University of Texas at Austin in 2013. The Institutes are designed to strengthen education and research and support academic cohort-building and mentoring. Institutes are open to all academic faculty and doctoral students working in Archival Studies, both nationally and internationally.
A second component of AERI is the encouragement of a larger and more diverse cohort of doctoral students in Archival Studies. For this, several funding opportunities have been made available. The Emerging Archival Scholars Program (2011-2015) provides up to six scholarships for minority students at the undergraduate and graduate levels who are considering a doctoral degree in Archival Studies to attend AERI 2014 as well as additional mentoring and research opportunities.
The goal of AERI is to advance the field of Archival Studies in the following ways:
- Create a dynamic community of researchers, teachers, and students to help mentor doctoral students and faculty in areas such as thesis writing, grant writing, publishing, and career development.
- Advance curriculum development in Archival Studies.
- Further current research development through presentations, posters, and workshop activities.
- Foster interest in future collaborations both nationally and internationally.
AERI will provide a dynamic venue for archival researchers and teachers to interact in an intensive, collegial collaborative environment
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