Participants' Bios
Amelia Acker
I examine the
material production and transmission of records created with mobile phones and
their archival consequences. I am interested in the emergence and
standardization of new information objects. In my dissertation research I ex amined the Short Message Service
format and text message communication protocols. I consider how technologists,
recordkeepers (including archivists), and information scientists are
confronting issues of digital materiality and preservation with records created
with mobile information and communication technologies. In the fall of 2014 I
will join the faculty of Library and Information Science in the iSchool at the
University of Pittsburgh.
Sumayya Ahmed
Sumayya Ahmed
received her B.A. in Sociology and African-American Studies from Wesleyan
University in Middletown, Connecticut. Her interest in the language, culture
and literary productions of North Africa and the Middle East led her to pursue
an M.A. from the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown
University.
While
completing her M.A. she also spent time studying Arabic at the University of
Qatar at Doha. In 2007, Sumayya was awarded a US State Department Fulbright
grant to carry out research on female religious scholarship in modern Morocco.
Sumayya entered
the doctoral program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s
School of Information and Library Science ( SILS) in Fall 2011 as an ELIME-21
fellow. ELIME-21 is an IMLS sponsored program that works to improve LIS
information in North Africa and the Middle East while also advancing the
quality of information on that region in US libraries and research
institutions. In the summer of 2012 she was awarded a research grant by the
American Institute of Maghreb Studies (AIMS) to support research on
digitization during an internship in the manuscript department at the National
Library of Morocco.
Sumayya’s
research has focused on the social, cultural and political issues concerning
access to and preservation of Islamic and Arabic historic manuscripts in
post-colonial North Africa.
Karen Anderson
Karen Anderson,
PhD, is the Foundation Professor of Archives and Information Science at Mid
Sweden University since 2008 and Professor II at Oslo University College. She
formerly worked at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia until 2007. She
is an Editor-in-Chief for Archival Science, serves on the Advisory Board of the
National Archives of Sweden and is a member of the Swedish Institute of
Standards TK546 Committee for Records Management Standards. She was President
of the International Council on Archives’ Section for Archival Educators and
Trainers from 2000-2004, Vice President in 2004-2012 and served on the
Committee of the Swedish Archives Association 2011-2014. In 2006 she was made a
Fellow of the Australian Society of Archivists.
She is a member
of the CEDIF research team http://www.cedif.org/: the Centre for Digital Information
Management at Mid Sweden University and also European Team Director for the
InterPARES Project: Trust in Digital Records in an Increasingly Networked
Society. Her research interests include implementing recordkeeping systems in
the digital environment, the development of professional standards and the role
of the archivist and records manager in the changing digital environment. She
is particularly interested in advancing standards of professional practice
through education and training for the community of records managers and
archivists and fostering a scholarly approach to professional education. She
has a long- standing interest and extensive experience in developing e-learning
courses and teaching online
Heather Barnes
Currently
preparing for comprehensive exams, I am a doctoral student interested in
research questions around community storytelling and preservation of
informal/ephemeral media. I am particularly interested in the work of activist
organizations and the use of media to document and foster their work.
I received a BA from Smith College and
my MLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As an MS student,
my work focused on the archiving and recordkeeping strategies of documentary
filmmakers. Independent media creators often lack the time and infrastructure
to preserve their digital files; the same holds true for community arts
organizations and other informal associations. Digital preservation in these
settings is challenging in that organizations do not have the same access to
institutional digital archives expertise and support. I am interested in
exploring baseline standards for digital archives that might enable these types
of media creators to more effectively manage their digital collections.
My professional experience includes
work with information technology firms, non-profit organizations, and most
recently with the DigCCurr program at UNC-SILS. I have worked on independent
documentary projects through the Salt Institute and the Center for Documentary
Studies at Duke University.
Jeannette Bastian
Jeannette A.
Bastian is Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Graduate
School of Library and Information Science, Simmons
College, Boston where she also directs their archives education program. She
was Territorial Librarian of the United States Virgin Islands 1987 to 1998 and
received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999. Her archival
publications include Owning Memory, How a Caribbean Community Lost Its Archives
and Found Its History (2003), Archival Internships 2008), and Community Archives,
The Shaping of Memory (2009). Her research interests include the development of
archival education, collective memory and postcolonialism.
Belinda Battley
I
am studying towards a PhD as an external, part-time student at Monash
University, and am also an archivist in the Auckland office of Archives New
Zealand, where I have worked since 1990, and am involved in a full range of
archival work, from A&D and reference to exhibitions and giving talks. I
completed a Masters in information studies, majoring in Archives and Records
Management, in 2011, at Victoria University in Wellington, NZ. My Masters
project surveyed and analysed factors behind the use of the Australian series
system in archival description throughout New Zealand, using a mixed-methods
approach, with the Records Continuum model as a tool for analysis. This
resulted in two peer-reviewed journal papers, in Archifacts and in Archives and
Manuscripts.
My
particular interest, and the area of my PhD research, is the fit between
Australasian archival description and collective memory construction in
communities. I am using a mixed interpretive, critical, auto- ethnographic
approach, and I have a particular interest in Records Continuum theory. In my
PhD research, I intend to work collaboratively with a community to which I
belong to construct a model of their use of records / archives for
collective-memory creation and maintenance. To build the model I intend to use
a second-generation GT approach. I will then compare this model with a model of
the Australian series system developed in consultation with domain experts, and
compare both with real-world implementations in Archives.
Snowden Becker
My dissertation
in progress explores the archival nature of evidence management in law
enforcement, and the people, practices, and processes involved in these
agencies' creation and long-term retention of evidence in a wide variety of
audiovisual formats. My research interests more broadly are concerned with how
audiovisual materials, especially amateur recordings, are integrated into our
cultural heritage. I strongly believe that a 21st century archival education
should prepare new members of the field to manage a historical record in which
mechanical, electronic, digital and audiovisual components have become ubiquitous.
As Program Manager for UCLA's Moving Image Archive Studies MA degree, I now
engage daily with the challenges of keeping a highly specialized curriculum
rigorous, relevant, and rewarding for its students--as well as the need to
demonstrate the value of archival studies to a broad range of stakeholders both
on and off our campus.
Edward Benoit III
I am currently
a PhD candidate in the School of Information Studies of the University of
Wisconsin- Milwaukee. Prior to entering the doctoral program, my research
covered a wide array of topics including Milwaukee socialism, a case study of
photography as primary sources, and representations of progress seen at the
1893 and 1933 World’s Fairs. The doctoral program, however, focused my research
agenda. At the broadest level, I explore methods of increasing access and use
of information with an emphasis on its discoverability. Within this area, I
focus on digital collections with prior research on the impact of the DMCA,
social tagging, document evaluation, the history of digital collections,
participatory and community archives. My dissertation explores the possible
integration of minimal processing and domain expert generated social tagging
within digital archives.
As an educator,
I strive to integrate emerging technologies within the classroom, and providing
opportunities for both online and onsite student engagement with practical
applications of learned theory. Professional education requires the mastery of
both theoretical and applied techniques; therefore, my teaching philosophy is
built upon a constructivist and apprenticeship learning styles. Although no
course can completely avoid instructive teaching, the best method provides a
theoretical foundation while allowing students to expand their understanding
through real world applications. Students gain both experience and the problem
solving tools for future issues.
Joel Blanco-Rivera
I'm an Assistant Professor at Simmons
College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. I received my PhD
from the University of Pittsburgh in April 2012. My research interests are
archives and transitional justice in Latin America, freedom of information, and
social memory. My dissertation is a case study of the work of the National
Security Archive in transitional justice mechanisms in Latin America. My
current research focuses on the archival implications of the emergence of
Freedom of Information laws in Latin America. My current research focuses on
the archival implications of memory-making and identity of the Puerto Rican
diaspora in the United States.
Sarah Buchanan
Sarah is a
doctoral student in Information Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Her main research interest in archival studies comprises archival work
processes including arrangement and description of special collections, with a
focus on archaeological archives and digital classics. She also studies
community archives, museums, and archival history. Currently she is a member of
the Augmented Processing Table research team investigating arrangements of
paper and digital materials. In teaching, she strives to promote a
participatory environment that integrates students' community engagement.
Additionally she is active in the Society of American Archivists and helped
launch the Bruin Archives Project (BAP) in 2008 as co-president of the SAA
Student Chapter at UCLA. She received an M.L.I.S. from the University of
California, Los Angeles and a B.A. with Distinction in Classical Studies from
the University of Pennsylvania.
Matt Burton
I am a doctoral
candidate at the School of Information at the University of Michigan. I have an
interdisciplinary degree in Bioinformatics from Wesleyan University. After
Wesleyan I worked as an information security researcher for the MITRE
corporation where I developed open XML standards for the information security
community. My past research includes studies of scientific collaboration and
the production of long-term data in ecological science. Currently, I study the
digital humanities and new modalities of scholarly communication. Specifically,
I am examining the infrastructural dynamics of scholarly blogs using
quantitative (text mining and qualitative (grounded theory) techniques to
construct and analyze an archive of digital humanist blogs.
Jessica Bushey
Jessica is a
doctoral candidate in the School of Library, Archives and Information Studies
at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include digital
image curation and the trustworthiness of digital images stored and accessed in
the cloud. Jessica is a graduate research assistant with: InterPARES Trust (http://interparestrust.org/), Records in the Cloud Project (http://recordsinthecloud.org/), and the Law of Evidence in the Digital Environment
Project (http://www.lawofevidence.org/). Prior to commencing her doctoral
studies, Jessica held the position of Digitization Lead at the Museum of
Anthropology at UBC, in which her team digitally photographed 35,000
ethnographic objects for online discovery and scholarly research. As an Adjunct
Professor, Jessica has courses at SLAIS that address non-textual archival
materials, open-source software for archival arrangement and description,
online archives, and the photographic record.
Ellen-Ray Cachola
Trained in
Political Science, Cultural Anthropology and Information Studies, Ellen-Rae
Cachola brings an interdisciplinary lens into the Archival field. Her research
examines how state-based and community-based archives document different views
of security in the Asia-Pacific region. She focuses on the use of oral,
kinetic, digital and analogue archival systems in contemporary women's
movements that facilitate cross-cultural communication and develop projects
that advocate for non-militarized pathways to peace and security.
Hang Cao
Hang Cao is a
associate professor of department of Library, Information and Archives at
Shanghai University, China. Research interest is archives information resources
management and informatization of archives management and Archives, records and
society. Course taught include Information Economics, Introduction to Archival
Science, Modern Foreign Archives Management, Compilation Of Archival Documents
etc.
Kathy Carbone
I am a second
year doctoral student in the Department of Information Studies at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Performing Arts Librarian
and Institute Archivist in the Division of Library and Information Resources at
the California Institute of the Arts, (CalArts). I am also a faculty member in
the School of Music at CalArts. I hold a BFA in Dance, a MA in Dance and Music,
and a MLIS. As a modern dancer and choreographer, I spent over 20 years
collaborating with musicians and dancers through improvisation and set material
in theater and gallery based live performance events.
My research
focuses on artists and archives. More specifically, I investigate the following
phenomena: the ways in which visual and performing artists conceptualize,
interact with, use, and respond to the archive and archival records; why and
how artists use archival records in or as works of art; how archival records as
works of art circulate in art and media systems outside of the archive;
artist-in-residency programs in archives; and, archivist and artist
collaborations.
Janet Ceja
I am an Assistant Professor at the School of
Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS) at the University of Arizona.
I received my PhD from the University of Pittsburgh where I was a part of the
first cohort of the American Library Association’s Spectrum Doctoral Fellowship
program. Previously, I worked as a moving image archivist in Los Angeles,
California.
My approach to
archival research and pedagogy is based on interdisciplinary thinking and
method. My major fields of interest include the history of film and media,
Latin American popular culture, and intangible cultural heritage in Mexico and
Latino communities in the U.S. I teach courses on archives that focus on
advocacy, moving image preservation, and documentation practices in
underrepresented communities. Aligned with the goals of the SIRLS Knowledge
River program, my teaching and research is committed to representing and
serving the information needs of Latino and Native American populations
Marika Cifor
Marika Cifor is
a first-year doctoral student in Information Studies at the University of
California, Los Angeles where she is also pursuing a Concentration Certificate
in Gender Studies. Her research interests include community archives,
particularly in their meeting points with institutional archives, sexuality,
affects, queer and feminist theories, and collective memory. She is currently
working on a collaborative project between the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives,
the Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Libraries. She holds a MS in
Library and Information Science with a Concentration in Archives Management and
an MA in History from Simmons College and a BA in History and Political, Legal,
and Economic Analysis from Mills College.
Anthony Cocciolo
Anthony
Cocciolo is an Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute School of Information and
Library Sciecne, where he teaches digital archives, moving image and sound
archives, and digital libraries. His research interests are in the uses of
emerging information and communications technology to promote human
development, particularly building means to promote knowledge construction,
civic/democratic engagement and social memory. His work considers how archives
and libraries, as well as the interplay between digital and physical spaces,
can act as environments or ecologies for promoting these goals.
Anthony
completed his doctorate from the Communication, Computing Technology in
Education program at Columbia University, and BS in Computer Science from the
Unviersity of California, Riverside. Prior to Pratt, he was the Head of
Technology for the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College, Columbia
University, where he worked extensively on digital projects for the College’s
archive and libraries.
Christopher Colwell
I am a Fellow
and Life Member of Records and Information Management Professionals Australasia
(RIM Professionals Australasia) and an Associate of the Governance Institute of
Australia and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (a
Chartered Secretary). With 25 years experience in the information disciplines,
for the last 17 years I have been responsible for implementing records and
information management programs in Australian public sector agencies. Currently
the Information and Governance Manager at the Australian Prudential Regulation
Authority, I am also a Casual Lecturer and PhD candidate in the Information and
Knowledge Management School at the University of Technology, Sydney.
As the
inaugural recipient of the RIM Professionals Australasia Research Grant I
conducted research into the professional values of the recordkeeping industry
in Australasia. This research guided a revision of the RIM Professionals
Australasia Code of Professional Conduct and Statement of Ethical Practice.
The aims of my
PhD research are to:
·
explore
the nature of the record and the perceptions of its properties in an
organizational context;
·
examine
other disciplinary perceptions of the record object as information and
evidence; and
·
examine
the implications of these perceptions for organizations and their performance,
as well as for the records management profession with reference to models best
practice and other disciplines
Patricia Condon
Patricia Condon
is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science at Simmons College in Boston, MA. She received her Master of Library
and Information Science and Master of Arts in Anthropology from The University
of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS. Patti's teaching and research
specializations are archival studies and digital curation. Patti has fifteen
years experience researching, teaching, and working in the information
disciplines including professional positions in archives, academic libraries,
and publication. Her current research focuses on two areas: the curation and
stewardship of digital materials in archives and libraries; and the
significance of place and sense of place in archives, community collections, and
cultural heritage. Patti’s dissertation research focuses on digital curation,
with an emphasis on education. Her dissertation explores the character,
development, and educational landscape of digital curation knowledge,
practices, and skills, and investigates whether digital curation is emerging as
an independent discipline. As an archival educator, Patti encourages her
students to develop and improve their research and practical skills; attain a
more thorough understanding of, and respect for, the theory and history of
their field; gain a holistic view of the information disciplines; and
creatively explore new ideas. As a lifelong learner, Patti strives to do the
same.
Danielle Cooper
Danielle Cooper
is a doctoral student at the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women’s
Studies at York University and a founding editor of Feral Feminisms, an
independent, inter-media, peer reviewed, open access online journal. She also
holds a Masters of Information degree (M.I.) from the Faculty of Information at
the University of Toronto in collaboration with the Mark S. Bonham Centre for
Sexual Diversity Studies. Her doctoral research utilizes ethnographic methods
to examine LGBT libraries and archives and the queer information-based
activities found therein. She is also interested in the activities of activist
and autonomous grassroots information organizations more broadly. Her work is
featured in Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader and forthcoming in
GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies and Interactions: UCLA Journal of
Education and Information Studies.
Sheila Corrall
I became
Professor and Chair of the LIS Program at Pittsburgh in 2012, after eight years
as Professor of Librarianship & Information Management at the University of
Sheffield, where I was Head of the iSchool 2006-2010. I was previously director
of library/information services at three UK universities, and a senior manager
at The British Library.
I teach
Research Methods and Academic Libraries, and am committed to an inquiry-based
pedagogy, which models the process of research in the student learning
experience. I aim to develop new professionals as reflective practitioners who
have a broad and deep understanding of the context of their work, and can
engage critically with current thinking and practice in their field. I never
set essays or “term papers”, preferring more meaningful assignments, which
require students to relate theory from the literature to real-world practice.
My research
areas include the application of business concepts and tools to library and
information services; roles, competencies, and education of information
professionals; and collection development and information resource management
in the digital world. Recent work includes a review of evolving academic library
specialties, an international survey of library engagement with bibliometrics
and research data, and book chapter on future design of library space from a
researcher perspective.
I serve on the editorial boards of five journals, and advisory boards of Credo
Reference and Facet Publishing. In 2002, I was the first President of the
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, and in 2003
received the International Information Industries Lifetime Achievement Award.
Richard Cox
Rixchard J. Cox is
Professor in Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh,
School of Information Sciences where he is responsible for the archives
concentration in the Master's in Library Science degree and the Ph.D. degree.
Dr. Cox served as Editor of the American Archivist from 1991 through
1995 and Editor of the Records & Information Management Report from
2001 through 2007. He has written extensively on archival and records
management topics and has published eighteen books including: American
Archival Analysis: The Recent Development of the Archival Profession in the
United States (1990) -- winner of the Waldo Gifford Leland Award given by
the Society of American Archivists; Managing Institutional Archives:
Foundational Principles and Practices (1992); The First Generation of
Electronic Records Archivists in the United States: A Study in
Professionalization (1994); Documenting Localities (1996); Closing
an Era: Historical Perspectives on Modern Archives and Records Management
(2000); Managing Records as Evidence and Information (2001), winner of
the Waldo Gifford Leland Award in 2002; co-editor, Archives & the Public
Good: Records and Accountability in Modern Society (2002); Vandals in
the Stacks? A Response to Nicholson Baker’s Assault on Libraries (2002); Flowers
After the Funeral: Reflections on the Post-9/11 Digital Age (2003); No
Innocent Deposits: Forming Archives by Rethinking Appraisal (2004), winner
of the Waldo Gifford Leland Award in 2005; Lester J. Cappon and Historical
Scholarship in the Golden Age of Archival Theory (2004); Archives and
Archivists in the Information Age (2005); Understanding Archives &
Manuscripts (2006) with James M. O’Toole; Ethics, Accountability, and
Recordkeeping in a Dangerous World (2006); Personal Archives and a New
Archival Calling: Readings, Reflections and Ruminations (2008); The
Demise of the Library School: Personal Reflections on Professional Education in
the Modern Corporate University (2010); and Archival Anxiety and the
Vocational Calling (2011). Recent essays include “Lester J. Cappon and the
Creation of Records: The Diary and the Diarist,” Archivaria 75(2013):
115-144; “Lester J. Cappon, Scholarly Publishing, and the Atlas of Early
American History, 1957-1976,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 43 (2012:
294-321; “War, Memory and Archives: Building a Framework,” Library and
Archival Security 25 (2012): 21-57; and “Lester J. Cappon, an
Unwritten Textbook, and Early Archival Education in the United States.” Information
and Culture: A Journal of History, forthcoming. Dr. Cox was elected a
Fellow of the Society of American Archivists in 1989. academic
Roderic Crooks
My writing
currently focuses on Internet participation, mobile computing, data activism,
and community archives. In general, I am interested in how narratives around
novelty, inevitability, and universality mask the ways that technological
systems encode idealized forms of social relations and require performances
based on these orderings. I'm trying to work out some ethical issues in the context
of mobile computing and cultural heritage, incorporating the multiple
perspectives of users, service providers, and society. Before entering the
doctoral program, I completed an MLIS at UCLA (2011) and an MFA at the Writers’
Workshop at the University of Iowa (2005).
Morgan Currie
Morgan Currie
is a PhD candidate in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. Her
research focuses on the use of statistical data practices in governance and how
concepts of openness and transparency drive government policy. She is currently
investigating how the City of Los Angeles is implementing its open government
data website portal. Currie also works on staff at UCLA’s Kleinrock Center for
Internet Studies (KCIS), as a researcher and program coordinator; there she writes
on the history of early electronic network gateways and California's network
cultures. Currie will have an MLIS from UCLA in 2014 and has a Masters in New
Media from the University of Amsterdam.
Elizabeth Daniels
I am a first year
PhD student at Monash University, I also work as a Project Archivist at The
University of Melbourne's e-Scholarship Research Centre.
Morgan Daniels
I am a doctoral
candidate at the University of Michigan’s School of Information. My research
focuses on people’s experiences of information reuse, a theme that I have
explored in several contexts. Within traditional archives, I have looked at the
impact of college and university archives on student users and worked on the
development of tools for user-based assessment of archives (both with the
Archival Metrics project). More recently my focus has shifted to look
specifically at the reuse of research data. My work in this area includes an
interview and observation-based study of scientists’ data management and reuse
practices and an analysis of staff approaches to change in data over time at
three repositories.
Combining my
experience investigating data reuse and a background gained through the
completion of a museum studies certificate, I am currently finishing up my
dissertation on the topic of research use of museum materials, including
artifacts, their representations, and research data collections held by
museums. Using a comparative case study approach, I address the various kinds
of data held by two museums and the ways in which researchers in several fields
use those data to develop new knowledge. It also explores the implications of
museum data sources for developing data sharing infrastructure. At AERI, I will
present material based on my dissertation work. I look forward to receiving
feedback on this work from the AERI community.
Devan Donaldson
Devan Ray
Donaldson is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Michigan
School of Information. In the broad research areas of data curation and digital
preservation, he investigates preservation management, preservation metadata,
digital repositories, users and issues of trust and trustworthiness in a
digital preservation context. He holds a M.S. in Library Science from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. in History from the
College of William and Mary in Virginia. In 2005, he studied abroad at Oxford
University, Hertford College. He has been a Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium
Scholar since 2002, a Horace H. Rackham Merit Fellow since 2008 and an Edward
Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Member since 2012.
Lorrie Dong
I am a doctoral
candidate at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information (UT). My
dissertation research focuses on the social ecologies of mental health records
over time. I am studying how medical records from a state institution in the
American South were involved in social relationships within the hospital and
across broader communities (e.g., professional, local) from the late 19th
century, as active records, to the present, as archival materials. The intent
is to better understand how these records were and continue to be part of dynamic
power structures and, consequently, to consider the place of medical records
within several cultural heritage and archival paradigms.
I hold a B.A.
in English from the University of California, Berkeley; an M.Phil. in
Renaissance literature from the University of Cambridge; and a MSIS with a
specialization in preservation administration from UT. I am currently the
conservation technician at the Architecture & Planning Library. Past
institutions that I have worked for include the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
and the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
Jonathan Dorey
Jonathan Dorey
is a Ph.D. candidate at the McGill University School of Information Studies in
Montréal, Canada. His doctoral research focuses on the needs and
expectations of history undergraduates with regards to access to digital
archives. His primary fields of study are language and information, information
behaviour, information and archival literacy, archival use and reuse. Jonathan
has been an active participant at AERI since 2011 and was part of the Scoping
the Published Archival Research Corpus (SPARC) and Charting the Archival
Enterprise in Doctoral Education through AERI research projects. He has taught
master level classes at the McGill University School of Information Studies and
Université de Montréal’s École de bibliothéconomie et
des sciences de l’information.
Jonathan holds
an MLIS from McGill University (2010), a graduate certificate in website and
software localization from Université de Montréal (2008) and a bachelor’s
degree in translation and East-Asian studies from Université de
Montréal (2002). He is a certified translator since 2005. Jonathan has
worked at BG Communications and Harris Interactive in Montréal as well as
numerous clients as a translator, at Google Montréal as a local bilingual
taxonomy specialist and at CEDROM-SNi as a librarian.
Wendy Duff
I obtained my
Ph.D. (1996) from the University of Pittsburgh. I am the Director of the
Digital Curation Institute, and teach archives and records management with a
focus on access to archival materials.
I am a founding
member of AX-SNet, an evolving international team of researchers interested in
facilitating access to primary materials. I have also served as a member of the
ICA Adhoc Commission on Descriptive Standards, the Encoded Archival Description
Working Group, and The Canadian Council of Archives Standards Committee.
Joanne Evans
I am a Lecturer
in the Faculty of IT at Monash University involved in teaching the archives and
records units of our Bachelor, Grad Diploma and Masters courses, as well as
other units in the information systems and information management areas. My
research relates to the design and development of archival information systems,
with particular emphasis on recordkeeping metadata, interoperability and
sustainability. I am particularly interested in exploring the requirements for
archival systems in community environments using inclusive systems and research
design approaches. With digital and networking information technologies
throwing down many challenges for archival and recordkeeping endeavours, in
both my teaching and my research I like to explore how they may help us develop
better archival and recordkeeping infrastructures, in turn enriching our
understanding of records, archives and archivists in society.
Rebecca Frank
Rebecca D.
Frank is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan School of
Information. Her research interests include the sustainability of digital
information, risk management and disaster planning, digital preservation, and
trustworthy digital repositories. Rebecca also holds a Master’s degree in
Information Science with a focus on Preservation of Information from the
University of Michigan School of Information.
Frank
F. Furstenberg
Frank F. Furstenberg, is a Professor of Sociology and Research Associate in the Population
Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. His interest in the
American family began at Columbia University where he received his Ph. D. in
1967. His recent books are Behind the Academic Curtain: How to Find
Success and Happiness with a PhD (2013) and Destinies of the
Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teen Childbearing (2007). His current
research projects focus on the family in the context of disadvantaged urban
neighborhoods, adolescent sexual behavior, cross national research on
children’s well-being, urban education and the transition from adolescence to
adulthood.
Patricia Galloway
Patricia
Galloway joined the University of Texas at Austin School of Information’s archival
studies specialization, where she is now Professor, in 2000. She teaches
courses in digital archives, archival appraisal, and historical museums. From
1979 to 2000 she worked at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History,
where she was an editor, historian, museum exhibit developer, and manager of
archival information systems, and from 1997 to 2000 directed an NHPRC-funded
project to create an electronic records program for Mississippi. Her academic
qualifications include a BA in French from Millsaps College (1966); MA (1968)
and PhD (1973) in Comparative Literature and PhD in Anthropology (2004), all
from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Patricia Garcia
I am a doctoral
candidate in the Department of Information Studies at the University of
California, Los Angeles. I received a B.A. in English literature from St.
Edward’s University in 2005, an M.A. in English literature from the University
of Texas, Austin in 2007, and an M.L.I.S. from the University of California,
Los Angeles in 2013.
I am currently
completing a dissertation titled “Beyond the Textbook: Primary Sources and
Inquiry- based Learning in Science Education.” My research analyzes the
relationship between inquiry-based educational practices and the critical
thinking skills that are fostered through the instructional use of primary
sources.
Anne Gilliland
I am a
professor specializing in archival studies in the Department of Information
Studies at UCLA. I have worked extensively teaching, supervising,
co-supervising and mentoring Master’s and Ph.D. students from UCLA and several
other universities and countries. I am also the Director of the Center for
Information as Evidence (CIE) at UCLA. My recent work addresses
conceptualizations of the record, the archive, and evidence in an increasingly
digital, post-colonial and globalized world. Given this context, I am
particularly interested in the following aspects:
1. Archival
informatics, e.g., metadata and metadata archaeology, design and evaluation of
cultural information systems, and digital recordkeeping;
2. Professional
and research infrastructure-building for Archival Studies, e.g., archival
research methods, archival intellectual history, community-based research,
professional and research education and pedagogy, internationalization of
archival work, pluralization of the field and its theory and practice base, and
archival education; and,
3. Social
justice and human rights issues as they relate to archives and records and
especially Indigenous, racial and ethnic, LGBT and other under-represented or
underempowered communities of record.
4. The agency
and affect of archives and recordkeeping on the daily lives of individuals and
communities seeking to recover and establish transparency after ethnic and
religious conflicts.
I am committed
to supporting the development of archival education programs around the world
that produce rigorous, reflexive, critical, culturally-sensitive,
technologically competent, and globally-aware archival practitioners,
researchers and educators.
Elaine Goh
I am a PhD
candidate at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the
University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. My doctoral dissertation research
aims to identify areas where the archival legislation in Commonwealth countries
addresses the management of public records and gaps between the legislation and
recordkeeping activities. My other research interests include the management
and preservation of records in the cloud as well as organizational culture and
behaviour. I am also a graduate research assistant for the Records in the Cloud
and the International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic
Systems (InterPARES) Trust Projects. Prior to starting to my PhD, I worked at
the National Archives of Singapore. I hold a Masters of Archival Studies from
UBC and a B.Soc. Sci from the National University of Singapore.
Karen Gracy
Karen F. Gracy
joined the faculty of the School of Library and Information Science of Kent
State University as assistant professor in 2007. She possesses an MLIS and PhD
in Library and Information Science from the University of California, Los
Angeles and an MA in critical studies of Film and Television from UCLA. Recent
publications have appeared in JASIST, Archival Science, American Archivist,
Journal of Library Metadata, and Information and Culture.
Dr. Gracy's
scholarly interests are found within the domain of cultural heritage
stewardship, which encompasses a broad range of activities such as preservation
and conservation processes and practices, digital curation activities that
consider the roles of heritage professionals and users in the lifecycle of
objects and records, as well as knowledge representation activities such as
definitions of knowledge domains, development of standards for description, and
application of new technologies to improve access to cultural heritage objects.
Dr. Gracy
teaches in the areas of preservation and archiving, with a focus on moving
image archives and digital preservation issues. As an instructor, one of her
greatest challenges is to take students' natural attraction to the physical material
in collections and transform it into an enthusiasm for and a mastery of the
complex set of functions and tasks which comprise the world of cultural
heritage stewardship. To learn to think like an archivist or a preservationist,
a student must gain both theoretical and practical knowledge and use those two
types of knowledge in tandem to make decisions in real-world environments.
Ann Graf
I have a BA in
mass communication with emphasis on broadcast media and an MLIS with a focus on
the organization of information. I am a fourth semester PhD student with
interests in historical and bibliographic research methods and digital image
archives. I am currently beginning to narrow my dissertation topic, which will
involve the community archiving and information organization practices of those
who photograph ephemeral art (graffiti, street art, temporary art) and who
describe and post their collections on the Internet. My research objectives
involve analyzing the motivations, methods, and purposes behind these digital
collections to inform preservation of the cultural record left behind within
what is often considered a contested or overlooked art form.
I have taught
information literacy for three semesters at a local career college. My teaching
has positively influenced my view of what might be called “naïve”
information classification and collecting practices by those not trained in
information studies. Just as in taking a photo, both research and teaching
involve carefully framing a subject within time and space and giving special
attention to information context or lack thereof. My personal involvement in
photography for the past 30 years presents a natural lens through which to view
both my teaching and research aspirations (pun intended).
Jane Gruning
I am a
third year doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin School of
Information. My research interests are in the area of digital archives and the
preservation of digital objects. I am interested in how human experiences of
digital objects as virtual and/or physical affect how we try (or don't try) to
keep those objects for the long term. I approach these topics from the
perspective of discourse, that is, how our talk about digital objects reflects
our conceptions of those objects. An additional and related interest of mine is
the study of digital virtual consumption. This is the phenomenon of the
purchase of virtual objects, often within online games.
Currently I am
the Graduate Research Assistant for an NSF-funded study (PI, Dr. Lecia Barker)
concerning faculty adoption of new teaching practices in STEM disciplines
(primarily Computer Science). I hope that I will be able to apply the knowledge
of teaching approaches that I gain during this project to the work of training
archival students in technical skills that are becoming increasingly essential
for digital archivists.
Robb Hernández
Joining the
English Department at the University of California, Riverside in 2012, I teach
courses in Latina/o cultural studies and serve on the faculty advisory boards
for LGBIT studies and Designated Emphasis in Book, Archive, and Manuscript
Studies. My research is grounded in the spirit of recovery and the “archival
impulse” in Latino cultural practices where Mexican American altar-building,
nicho assembly, yard shrines, and rasquachismo aesthetics preserve memory
making-do “within the world of the tattered, shattered and broken.” My current
book project entitled, “Archival Body/Archival Space: Queer Remains of the
Chicano Avant-Garde,” confronts the lost bodies of record for queer
avant-gardists once critical to the Chicano art movement yet little known due
to cultural neglect, non-extant visual evidence, and AIDS crisis. Written in
the vein of “art memorial” criticism, I propose a queer a rchive fieldwork
methodology that challenges archive empiricism and espouse a set of analytics
to explain how queerness remains in alternative archive formations and creative
recordkeeping practices rupturing the compulsory heteronormative vision of this
art movement. My monographs, The Fire of Life: The Robert Legorreta— Cyclona
Collection, 1962-2002, and VIVA Records: Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists of Los
Angeles, 1970- 2000 were published in the “Chicano Archive” book series edited
by Chon A. Noriega and Lizette Guerra and distributed by the University of
Washington Press. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College
Park (2011) where I co-founded the first Latina/o Studies program in the
Mid-Atlantic and coordinated the Latino Museum Studies Program for the
Smithsonian Institution.
Luciana Heymann
My whole career
has been developed at the Center of Research and Documentation of Brazilian
Contemporary History (CPDOC), at the Getulio Vargas Foundation. Hired as a
researcher in 1986, I worked organizing personal archives of members of the
Brazilian political elite. When I began my Social Anthropology master's degree
in the early 1990s, I decided to develop my fieldwork on one of these archives.
In my doctoral thesis in Sociology, I have focused the issue of the social
construction of historic “legacies”, analyzing the role of personal archives in
the projects of construction of exemplary individual trajectories.
I am now a
member of the staff of the Graduate Program in History, Politics and Cultural
Assets of CPDOC, created in 2003. In recent years, I have been in charge of the
Memory and collections discipline, in which I try to call the students
attention to a socio-historical approach of archives, to their related
representations and the archivists’ role in the production of discourses about
the past.
More recently,
I have been interested in the memory of the Brazilian military regime
(1964-1985). The creation of the Political Struggles in Brazil Reference
Center, in 2009, and of a Commission of Truth and Reconciliation, in 2012, are
signs that the memory of this period is finally becoming State policy. What are
the outlines of this process and its effects on archival practices and
representations are some of the questions that I am interested in
Xiaoyu Huang
Dr. Xiaoyu
Huang is an associate professor of IRM School at Renmin University of China.
She got the doctor degree in 2002, majored in Archives Theory and Modernization
of Archives Management. She has taught 6 courses for undergraduates and
graduates. Her research interests include archival education, archival theory,
archives management in foreign countries, social service in archival
profession, personnel archives. By now, she has published 6 monographs, 7
teaching books, and more than 130 academic articles. She has taken in charge of
4 research projects , and participated in 6 research projects from national to
bureau level. She has got many professional teaching and research prizes, and
most important prizes include National New Century Excellent Talents and
National First-class Doctoral Dissertation. She had been offered several
training and visiting programs in United States and Canada. She had been the
visiting professor of SLAIS at UBC. She had been one of the Editorial Members
of Comma. She had been one of the interpreters, translators, speakers and
attendees of 13th, 16th and 17th ICA Congress. She had been one of the speakers
of 1st and 3rd Asia and Pacific Conference on Archival Education. Almost all
her speeches at International conferences were related to archival education.
Her goal to attend AERI 2014 is to build more communications among archival
education and research community.
Dalena Hunter
Dalena Hunter
is a fourth year PhD student in the Information Studies Program at UCLA. Her
focus in on archives, specifically the relationship between record producing
bodies, cultural narratives, and institutions of power.
Lauren Kilgour
In the Fall of
2014, I will enter the PhD program in Library and Information Sciences at the
University of Pittsburgh’s School of Information Sciences. Currently, I am
completing my Master of Information degree at the University of Toronto's
Faculty of Information in the Archives and Records Management concentration. In
this program of study, much of my research explores the theoretical, social and
cultural dimensions of records and record keeping practices in public and
institutional contexts. Within this wider area of focus, my primary research
project draws upon my background working in the volunteer and nonprofit sectors
to critically examine the information needs and experiences of offenders. As
part of this larger research agenda, my work engages with a number of fields:
archives and records management, impact studies, social justice, public policy,
education, science and technology studies, social and cultural theor y, and
public and applied scholarship. Previously, I completed an Honours Bachelor of
Arts degree also at the University of Toronto, with a Specialist in English and
Minors in History and American Studies.
David Kim
David Kim is a
doctoral candidate in the department of Information Studies at UCLA. His research
focuses on the cultural politics of representation in digital archives. He has
developed several digital projects that explore emerging methods and multimodal
scholarship in the digital humanities, including 3D/simulation archive of LA
Chicana/o murals, digital archive of Asian American contemporary art, and
network analysis of Native American ethnographic photographs in the early
twentieth-century.
James King
James King is a
second-year doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of
Information Sciences. He holds a BA from Samford University, an MA in English
from Boston College, and an MLIS from the University of Alabama. Prior to
beginning the doctoral program, he worked as an Admissions Coordinator at North
Bennet Street School and completed archives courses at Simmons College. His
current research interests lie in the intersection of archives and questions of
cultural memory and conflict, particularly those addressing how archives
function within communities fractured by war and other historical traumas. My
research and teaching are both informed by an interdisciplinary approach that
draws from my background in the humanities.
Ann-Sofie Klareld
I commenced as
a Ph.D. Candidate in February 2013 within the project Good Information Governance
(GOINFO) at the Department of Archives and Computer Science, Mid Sweden
University. I have a bachelor’s degree in Archives and Information Science and
a Master of Arts in Ethnology. Prior to entering the doctoral program, I worked
as an archivist and a registrar for five years, foremost in the governmental
and municipal sector in Sweden.
My scholarship
philosophy is still developing since I am a new researcher. My dissertation in
progress explores the change of power and mandates over archives as a
consequence of the current e-government development. I anticipate that
attending AERI and interacting with other archival scholars will lead me to
further formulate a scholarship philosophy, and develop my skills as a
researcher.
Since I began
my academic career as a Ph D Candidate, I have completed courses in Computer
and Applied Systems Science, Information Management, Scientific Writing and
Presentation, Theory of Social and Cultural Sciences and Innovative
Applications of Research and Science. Milestones accomplished include writing a
research proposal, doing a preliminary data collection at public authorities,
participating in GOINFO workshop series planning and the project InterPARES
Trust in Digital Records in an Increasingly Networked World.
To attend AERI
will be a great opportunity for me to meet and learn from experienced scholars
from around the world, discuss and receive comments on my research and writing,
something that will significantly help me to publish my first paper in a peer
reviewed journal.
Adam Kriesberg
I am a doctoral
candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information. My research
interests focus on access to digital archival and cultural materials. I am
currently working on my dissertation, which examines public-private
partnerships between US state archival institutions and the private sector
(companies such as Ancestry.com and ProQuest). My research explores how these
partnerships emerge, how they are managed during their active periods, and how
they affect citizen access to archival materials using a mixed-methods
approach. During my time at Michigan, I have worked as a Graduate Student
Research Assistant on the Archival Metrics and Dissemination Information
Packages for Information Reuse (DIPIR) projects.
My commitment
to archival scholarship comes from a belief that our field must continue
advocating for public access to digitized archival materials. The affordances
of technology should not obscure the need for continued critical inquiry into
the role of digital records in the public information landscape. As a scholar,
I aspire to be a strong supporter of public access to information of all types,
and to emphasize this idea in my research and teaching. Preservation of the
cultural record and the provision of access for citizens are continued drivers
of my work, and a source of inspiration as I explore access systems and the
impact of partnerships with public archival institutions.
Aline Lacerda
I’m a historian
who always worked with historical archives. In the last years, I’ve been
working at the Department of Archive and Documentation of Casa de Oswaldo Cruz,
a center of research and documentation of public health belonged to Oswaldo
Cruz Foundation, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I deal with personal and
institutional historical archives related to the Brazilian history of medicine
and public health. Recently I coordinate a MBA on preservation and management
of Science and Health Cultural Heritage at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz.
In my career, I
was responsible for various projects of historical archival management. Besides
being responsible for organizing many archival funds, I also took part of the
creation of centers of documentation such as Pediatric Memorial, in Rio de
Janeiro. My professional experience includes curatorship of exhibitions events,
publishing editions and pedagogic activities. I was teacher of the Information
Science Department at Fluminense Federal University in the Archival Faculty,
where I was responsible for disciplines such as archival fundaments, history of
archives and archival institution management.
I have
published the photobiography Carlos Chagas, a scientist of Brazil, and
Photographs in archives: the production and meaning of visual records
(http://www.scielo.br/pdf/hcsm/v19n1/en_15.pdf), among other articles.
Alison Langmead
I have made a
concerted effort in my professional career to combine my enthusiasm for
academic work with an equally strong desire to use this theoretical research in
daily practice. While working towards by PhD in art history and my MLIS, for
example, I held a variety of positions in a number of library-museum- archives
settings, including a full- time post as the archivist/records and information
manager in a small business. I currently hold a joint faculty appointment at
the University of Pittsburgh that again combines the practical and the
theoretical.
In my teaching,
I believe that a successful graduate education in the field of archives and
records/information management must satisfy two basic requirements. First, as
befits any professional education, our students must become acquainted with a
set of basic practical skills. Second, our students need to acquire a
sophisticated understanding of the theoretical and historical underpinnings
that support these practical proficiencies. Without a solid awareness of the
reasons why current practice is the way that it is, our students will be
hard-pressed to make sense of future changes, and they will also find it more difficult
to become the proactive agents of change that we need them to be in order to
propel these professions forward in an increasingly information-based economy.
Ronald L. Larsen
Ronald L.
Larsen is a professor and dean of the
School of Information Sciences (SIS) at the University of Pittsburgh. He was
one of the founding deans of the iSchool consortium circa 2003 and the second
to chair the iCaucus (2006-08); he has been elected to serve a second term as
chair from 2016-18. During the mid to late 1990's, Ron was the assistant
director of the Information Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA), where he led research programs in digital libraries, information management,
and cross-lingual information utilization, with particular emphases on
interoperability and the development of performance metrics for large scale
distributed information systems. His career includes 17 years at the University
of Maryland, where he served as assistant vice president for computing, associate
director of libraries for information technology, executive director of a
10-university consortium on workforce development, and affiliate associate
professor of computer science. Prior to that he managed research programs in
automation and robotics at NASA and developed its research program in computer
science. Dr. Larsen holds a B.S. in Engineering Sciences from Purdue
University, an M.S. in Applied Physics from Catholic University, and a Ph.D. in
Computer Science from the University of Maryland College Park.
Cal Lee
Christopher (Cal) Lee is Associate Professor
at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill. He teaches courses on archival administration; records
management; digital curation; understanding information technology for managing
digital collections; and acquiring information from digital storage media. He
is a lead organizer and instructor for the DigCCurr Professional Institute, and
he teaches professional workshops on the application of digital forensics
methods and principles to digital acquisitions.
Cal’s primary area
of research is the curation of digital collections. He is particularly
interested in the professionalization of this work and the diffusion of
existing tools and methods
into professional practice. Cal developed “A Framework for Contextual
Information in Digital Collections,” and edited and provided several chapters
to I, Digital: Personal Collections in the Digital Era published by the Society
of American Archivists.
Cal is Principal
Investigator of BitCurator, which is developing and disseminating open-source
digital forensics tools for use by archivists and librarians. He was also
Principal Investigator of the Digital Acquisition Learning Laboratory (DALL)
project, which incorporated digital forensics tools and methods into digital
curation education. Cal has served as Co-PI on several projects focused on
preparing professionals for digital curation: Preserving Access to Our Digital
Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum (DigCCurr),
DigCCurr II: Extending an International Digital Curation Curriculum to Doctoral
Students and Practitioners; Educating Stewards of Public Information for the
21st Century (ESOPI- 21), Educating Stewards of the Public Information
Infrastructure (ESOPI2), and Closing the Digital Curation Gap (CDCG).
Jamie Lee
Jamie A. Lee is
a Doctoral Candidate in Information Resources and Library Science with a Gender
& Women's Studies minor at the University or Arizona. Her proposed
dissertation project, A Queer/ed Archival Methodology: Theorizing Practice
through Radical Interrogations of the Archival Body, emerges from her work with
the Institute for LGBT Studies to develop the Arizona Queer Archives (AQA), the
statewide LGBTQ archive. The AQA's cornerstone collection and programmatic
focus is the Arizona LGBTQ Storytelling Project, which Jamie founded in 2008 as
Arizona's first LGBTQ archive and queer oral history collection. Following
archival literatures that have traced archival theory and practice from the
modern to postmodern, Jamie's dissertation project will argue for and
instantiate an archival shift into the posthuman, the call to radically
re-define human and non-human as bodies, stories, and practices that are simultaneously
becoming and unbecoming within multiply-situated locations, identities,
technologies, representations, and timescapes. In order to develop a Queer/ed
Archival Methodology, she approaches the archives as embodied and, therefore,
will use the body as a framework to imagine and understand the archive as a
body of knowledge and, importantly, a body of multiple knowledges that does not
and cannot fit into normative and stable categories as dictated by dominant
discourse and ideology. She is alum of the Knowledge River Program. She has
worked in film/TV since 1991, has produced, and directed award-winning social
justice films that have screened worldwide. She values the power of
storytelling – the everyday experts and everyday stories that constitute archives.
Noah Lenstra
The central
research question I address in my research is “How do people construct the past
in the present?” I investigate how people (individuals and groups) interact
with information technologies and information institutions (archives, libraries,
museums, media and corporations) in processes of building historical
consciousness and collective & personal identities. Understanding how new
media effect these processes drives much of my research. My methodological
commitments lead me to combine in-depth studies of small groups with global
& historical contextualizations. Scholarship I find useful in this domain
space includes work in community informatics, archival studies, library
science, museum studies, public history, cultural studies, memory studies,
folklore studies, oral history, tourism studies, family studies, print culture
& new media studies, the political economy of information and cultural
heritage studies. I have co-developed a Master's level seminar on Digital
Public History, and work in the Community Informatics Research Lab, directed by
my adviser Kate Williams. I aspire to powerfully communicate the findings of my
research both to the scholarly and practitioner communities.
Amalia Skarlatou Levi
I am a Ph.D.
candidate at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. My
research is interdisciplinary and my dissertation explores three main issues:
a) the application of digital humanities methods in historical scholarship on
diasporas, b) the intersection and linking of archival collections with content
produced today online, and c) the affordances and challenges of ‘big data’ in
humanities research. I am particularly interested in Linked Open Data, as well
as in emerging content-linking technologies in computer science and their
applicability in cultural heritage and history. I am also interested in how
archives and museums inform our understanding of our identity and in how memory
and identity are articulated and reified in archives, particularly online ones.
I have previously worked in museums, developing exhibits, and conducting
archival research. I hold a Master’s in Library Sciences, and an M .A. in
History, concentration in Jewish History, both from the University of Maryland,
College Park, and an M.A. in Museum Studies from Yildiz Technical University in
Istanbul, Turkey; I completed her B.A. in Archaeology and History of Art in
Athens, Greece. For the future, I want to pursue an academic career, and would
like to split my time between a history department and an iSchool.
Zach Lischer-Katz
Zack
Lischer-Katz is a Library and Information Science PhD candidate at Rutgers
University, School of Communication & Information. He studies how knowledge
is constructed within archival communities. His research interests include
moving image archives, preservation standards, and the documentary practices of
preservationists. He has taught courses on Digital Libraries for the Masters in
Library and Information Science program at Rutgers University, and Video
Preservation for the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) Program at
New York University. Before beginning doctoral work at Rutgers, he worked from
2005 to 2012 at New York University as Archive Assistant for the Cinema Studies
Department Study Center and Film Archive, curated the weekly Cinema Studies
16mm film series, and assisted with the administration of the MIAP Program.
James Lowry
James Lowry is
a doctoral research student in the Department of Information Studies,
University College London. His research uses economics theories and models to
examine restrictions on access to government records and archives. He is also
the Deputy Director of the International Records Management Trust. He has led
records and archives management projects in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Russia, and
Tunisia, and he was the lead researcher for the Trust’s Aligning Records
Management with ICT, e-Government and Freedom of Information in East Africa
research project, which examined public sector records management capacity
across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi in relation to government
priorities for computerisation and access to information. He has published on
the development of national capacities for government record-keeping
(regulatory frameworks, role of national archives, convergence) and access to
information (Commonwealth admin istrative traditions, cultures of secrecy,
migrated archives, Freedom of Information and Open Data), most recently editing
a special issue of Comma; The Journal of the International Council on Archives
on government record-keeping in sub-Saharan Africa. He holds a Master of
Information Management (Archives and Record-keeping) degree from Curtin
University, Australia.
Sue McKemmish
Professor Sue
McKemmish, PhD, is Chair of Archival Systems, Monash University, Associate Dean
of Research Training in the Faculty of IT, and founding Director of the Monash
University Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics. She is engaged in
major research and standards initiatives relating to the use of metadata in
records and archival systems, information resource discovery and smart
information portals, Australian Indigenous archives, community archiving, and
the development of more inclusive archival educational programs that meet the
needs of diverse communities. Sue McKemmish directs the postgraduate teaching
programs in records and archives at Monash, has published extensively on
recordkeeping in society, records continuum theory, recordkeeping metadata
archival systems, and archival research design and methods. She is a Laureate
of the Australian Society of Archivists.
Jennifer Marshall
I am an
assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the
University of South Carolina. I hold a PhD in Library and Information Science,
with a concentration in archival studies, from the School of Information
Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. My primary research interests relate
to archival appraisal and to the roles that archives and archivists play in
facilitating historical accountability and social justice. My teaching
responsibilities lie mainly in the areas of archival administration and
preservation management. I view teaching as an ongoing learning process and I
enjoy the opportunities and challenges involved in striving towards excellence
in teaching in both the traditional classroom and online settings. Regardless
of course delivery method, I bring a student-centered approach to teaching. I
measure my effectiveness in large part by the success that I am able to
facilitate for my students during their learning process and into their
careers.
Eleanor Mattern
Eleanor “Nora”
Mattern is a doctoral candidate in Library and Information Science at the
University of Pittsburgh. Nora’s research interests are in the areas of
government records, information policy, and information ethics. Her current
work explores issues surrounding the ownership of information and cultural
materials. At the University of Pittsburgh, Nora has taught a course in Museum
Archives and has co-taught courses in Library and Archival Preservation,
Archival Appraisal, and Archival Advocacy, Access, and Ethics. Her research has
been published in the International Journal of Cultural Property and Library
and Archival Security.
Lindsay Kistler Mattock
Lindsay is a
doctoral candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information
Sciences. Prior to her doctoral studies, she also earned a MLIS with a focus in
Archives, Preservation and Records Management and a BA in Film Studies from the
University. Her professional experience as a video-technician and personal
interest in filmmaking and photography have shaped her academic interest in the
preservation of visual media, both analog and digital, and the recordkeeping
practices of media creators. Her dissertation research seeks to investigate the
development of archival practices in non-profit media organizations, including
media arts centers and media collectives. Lindsay also teaches the Moving Image
Archives course offered through the School of Information Sciences each summer,
which provides the students enrolled in the MLIS program with an introduction
to the history and development of audiovisual archives as well as the
principles and practices related to the preservation of audiovisual media.
Katie Pierce Meyer
I am a doctoral
student in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin.
Building collaborative relationships between archives and the architectural
community is central to my research agenda. Through my work, I intend to
contribute to an active discussion between professionals in libraries, archives
and museums and the architectural community to create networks that can result
in the sustainability of records that document the built environment. I bring
my practice as an archivist and training as an architectural historian to my
research focus on the socio-technical environment in which architectural
records are created. My primary concern is a disconnection between contemporary
practices in architecture, engineering, and construction and the ability of
cultural institutions to preserve the industry’s records. I believe that
actively working with the community that generates records is crucial to the
long-term preserva tion of records.
I received a BA
in Philosophy from Southwestern University in 2002 and completed a MS in
Information Studies at the School of Information at The University of Texas at
Austin (UT) in 2007. After receiving my MA in Architectural History from the UT
School of Architecture, I returned to the School of Information as an IMLS
Preservation Fellow. Throughout my graduate education, I have held a project
archivist position at the Alexander Architectural Archives, where I am
currently processing the Charles W. Moore archives.
Jessica Meyerson
I am the
Digital Archivist at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History and a
doctoral student at The University of Texas at Austin School of Information
where I study 'the university as an information preservation organization.' My
doctoral research examines the intersection between local repository digital
preservation and access needs, extra-departmental document creation and storage
practices, and university-level information technology policy. My bachelors
degree is in Political Science and I earned an MSIS in 2012 with a specialization
in Digital Archives and Digital Preservation.
Angela Murillo
I
am fourth-year doctoral student at the School of Information and Library
Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I received my MLIS
from the University of Iowa in May 2010. During my master’s program I was a
Digital Libraries Research Fellow. I also worked for Digital Library Services
and Special Collections and University Archives.
My bachelor’s
degrees are in Geosciences, English, and Spanish. During my English and Spanish
degree I focused mainly on urban studies and transnational literatures. During
my Geoscience degree my research was focused in geochemistry and
paleoclimatology.
My current
research focuses on: (1) scientific data management, reuse and sharing of data,
and collaboration; specifically earth sciences, (2) scientific data
repositories, data, and metadata; specifically earth sciences, (3) information
seeking behavior of scientists, and (4) social and cultural aspects of
information seeking behavior and use of information specifically for
scientists.
Benedicta Obodoruku
I am a doctoral
candidate from Long Island University- Post [U.S.A], concentration on refugees.
My research is based on refugees from the Horn of Africa. My visit [recently]
to Tanzania refugee camp [conducting interviews, focus group discussions and
unobtrusive observations of refugee/camp] has given me a broad experience on
the issues of refugees, which I hope to share at the conference.
Gillian Oliver
I currently
teach and conduct research in records and archives at Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand. My most recent professional experience prior to this
was as part of the foundation team established to initiate digital archiving
capability at New Zealand's national archives. I have extensive experience in
online distance education and am particularly interested in the challenges of
developing and building innovative and vibrant professional communities in a
small country context.
My PhD is from
Monash University, and this doctoral study was the catalyst for my ongoing
research agenda in organizational culture and information culture. I am editor
of the New Zealand archivists' professional journal, Archifacts, and an
editor-in-chief of Archival Science.
Alex Poole
A fourth-year
doctoral student at the School of Information and Library Science at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a DigCCurr II Fellow
(2010-2013), Alex Poole hails from Connecticut and was graduated from the Loomis Chaffee School (cum laude), Williams College
(Highest Honors, History), Brown University (MA, History), and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MSLS, Beta Phi Mu). He received the 2013
Theodore Calvin Pease Award for "The Strange Career of Jim Crow Archives:
Race, Space, and History in the Mid-20th Century American South." Poole's
research interests pivot around digital curation, digital humanities, pedagogy,
and all things archival.
Waraporn Poolsatitiwat
My three-year
experience as a history lecturer and three-month experience as an archive
officer remind me that the preservation of historical documents and the
awareness of their value in Thailand are underdeveloped. Most Thais including
well-educated people have never known what archive is. In their perception,
archive is just a place like a library or a museum for exhibiting ancient
objects. Although Thai government has implemented law and regulation about
archive management for 50 years, it needs improvement in particular human
resources. With the passionate of history and the desire to see the progress of
archive system in Thailand, I, therefore, decided to take a scholarship from
Thai government to study about Archive Management in the United Kingdom (UK) in
2010. After one year studying MA in archives and records management at
University of Liverpool from 2011 to 2012, I found that I need more knowledge
in archival science and would like to conduct a research relating to archival
education. I, therefore, decided to study PhD at University of Liverpool in 2013.
As I know that I am assigned to take responsible for managing postgraduate
course regarding archives and records management at Silpakorn University after
completing this doctoral degree program in 2016, I selected to do my PhD thesis
relating to my future job. My thesis aims to design archival training course in
Thailand to (1) meet international standards and contemporary need, (2) fit
with Thai environment and culture, (3) comply with Thai educational system and
(4) achieve market need.
Ricardo Punzalan
Ricky Punzalan
is an assistant professor of archives and digital curation at the University of
Maryland's College of Information Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Information from
the University of Michigan's School of Information. In addition to an MLIS from
the University of the Philippines, he completed two certificates of graduate
studies at Michigan, one in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and another
in Museum Studies. His dissertation project examined virtual reunification as a
strategy to provide integrated access to dispersed ethnographic archival images
online. Punzalan has been active internationally in developing community
archives. In May and June 2009, he worked in Techiman, Ghana, to establish the
archives of the traditional council and studied the impact of placing this
archival unit within a proposed community heritage center. From 2005 to 2006,
he organized the archives of Culion, a former leprosarium in the Philip pines,
and curated a museum exhibit for the centennial of the community's founding as
a segregation facility. Prior to his doctoral work at Michigan, he taught on
the faculty of the University of the Philippines School of Library and
Information Studies, where he served as assistant professor of archives and
library science and as museum archivist for the Vargas Museum. His articles
have been published in Archives and Manuscripts, Archivaria, and Archival
Science.
Sarah Ramdeen
Sarah Ramdeen is a
doctoral candidate at the School of Information and Library Science at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the project coordinator for
the IMLS sponsored program - Educating Librarian in the Middle East: Building
Bridges for the 21st Century (ELIME-21) and a student fellow in the Earth
Science Information Partners Federation (ESIP).
Her research
interests include the information seeking behavior of geologists when seeking
physical sample materials. Physical samples cannot be completely digitized but
often have digital materials associated with them. These hybrid collections
have unique curation needs which can be better understood by investigating how
users access and use these collections.
Ms. Ramdeen holds
a BS in Geology and a BA in Humanities from Florida State University (FSU). She
also holds an MS in Library and Information Studies with a Certificate in
Museum Studies from FSU. In the fall of 2006 she was an intern in London at the
Natural History Museum and before entering the PhD program at UNC, she worked
for the Florida Geological Survey.
Additional information
can be found on her website, http://ramdeen.web.unc.edu/.
Mario H. Ramirez
Mario H.
Ramírez is doctoral student in the Department of Information Studies at
the University of California, Los Angeles where his research interests include
the role of states of repression in the creation of documentary evidence, the
archiving of human rights violations in Latin America and the construction of
memory and national identities in post-conflict societies and their Diasporas.
He is author of “Witness to Brutality: Documenting Torture and Truth in
Post-Civil War El Salvador” in Archiefkunde, “The Task of the Latino/a
Archivist: On Archiving Identity and Community” in Interactions: UCLA Journal
of Education and Information Studies, and co-author, with Laurence Lepetit and
Patrizia Lapiscopia, of “The Role of Social Media and Web 2.0 Technologies in
the Protection of Cultural Heritage.” He is a founding member of the U.S.
Chapter of Archivists without Borders, co-chair of the Displaced Ar chives
Project and is a steering committee member of the Manuscript Repositories
Section of the Society of American Archivists. In addition to an M.S. in
Library Science and Certificate in Archives and Records Management from Long
Island University, C.W. Post, he holds a B.A. in American Studies from the
University of California, Santa Cruz and an M.A. in Rhetoric from the
University of California, Berkeley.
Gina Rappaport
I am an incoming doctoral student in
the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies; my advisor is Dr.
Ricardo Punzalan. I received my MA in History, Archives, and Records Management
from Western Washington University in 2007. My research interests orient on the
intersection of historiography and archival research, and the implications of
archival practice on the historical record. I am concerned with the integration
of archival theory into practice, especially with respect to the management of
photographic collections; I explored some of these concerns in my master’s
thesis, Limitations and Improvements in the Archival Management of Photographs.
Another area of strong interest is the responsive and respectful care of
archival materials relating to indigenous communities, and I wish to explore
ways to bridge epistemological conflict in the management of intangible
cultural heritage materials. I am active in the profess ional community,
currently serving as vice-chair/chair elect for the Native American Archives
Roundtable of SAA.
Professionally, I am the Archivist for
Photograph Collections and Head Archivist at the Smithsonian Institution’s
National Anthropological Archives, a position I have held since 2009. Before
joining the Smithsonian, I was a project archivist at the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s Pribilof Project Office where I co-authored The
Pribilof Islands, a Guide to Photographs and Illustrations, a publication on
historical visual resources relating to Pribilof Islands History. Prior to this
I worked as a project archivist for a variety of individuals and institutions,
including the University of Washington, The National Park Service, and the
Winthrop Group.
Vanessa Reyes
Vanessa Reyes
is a Doctoral Student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science
at Simmons College. She holds an M.S. in Library and Information Studies from
Florida State University and a B.A. in English from Florida International
University.
Having worked
in legislative, university, and public libraries, she became interested in
exploring the PIM field when she noticed that researchers' interest were
sparked when they used appropriately organized and preserved personal
collections for scholarly work.
Her current
research contributes to the emerging field of personal information management
(PIM), quantifying how individual users are organizing, managing, and
preserving digital information.
Future goals
consists of finding ways to make a sustainable difference in how our digital
heritage is preserved for future generations by examining trends of how
individual users are managing and preserving their information.
Lorraine Richards Bornn
I am an
Assistant Professor at the College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) at Drexel
University, performing research in the areas of digital curation and
preservation. I am currently co-PI with Dr. William C. Regli of CCI on a
Federal Aviation Administration-funded contract research project, “A Research
Study of Curation and Stewardship of Technical Data,” which is helping the FAA
to develop requirements and a prototype OAIS-compliant “big data” repository to
manage its scientific research data. I am also an instructor in the Digital
Curation Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object
Lifecycle, hosted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
My dissertation
Evidence-as-a-Service: State Recordkeeping in the Cloud, defended in October
2013, investigated information stewards working in public sector organizations
that had recently implemented cloud computing. It investigated the extent to
which the self-reported roles and responsibilities of archives and records
management professionals coincide or differ from those reported by archives and
records management journals over the past 42 years, finding empirical support
for the Continuum Theorists’ hypotheses about the distributed nature of
recordkeeping roles and responsibilities. It also examined how
cross-occupational relationships among recordkeeping stewards affect records
managers’ ability to perform recordkeeping responsibilities successfully in
cloud computing environments. It found that shifting power dynamics created
incentives to engage in fewer records management tasks than otherwise would
have occurred. Finally, it examined how the stewards rep orted their concerns
about cloud computing risks, finding that the power imbalance was reported more
clearly and frequently than the risks.
Robert Riter
My name is
Robert Riter. I am an assistant professor in the School of Library and
Information Studies at The University of Alabama, where I coordinate its newly
developed archival studies concentration. My doctoral work was supervised in
the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.
My research
focus is in the area of archival history. I currently work on topics related to
the foundations of archival thought and practice and the history of American
documentary editing. The overall objective of this work is to identify and
evaluate the threads of archival thinking that continue to influence archival
theory and practice, offering an archeology of archival thought, and a useful
discussion of its influence on contemporary archival practices.
At The
University of Alabama, I teach in archival studies, history of the book, and
the organization and description of information. In my role as an archival
educator, I believe that my most critical function is to assist students of
archival studies in becoming critical readers of information objects. An
archival object is made up of cultural, intellectual, and material substances,
all of which influence how an object will be contained, maintained, and managed
by the archivist. Through proper critical readings of archival objects,
archivists can develop more effective methods for treating these works in their
daily practice, and also obtain a better understanding of the consequences of
their own archival interventions.
Greg Rolan
After a 30-year career in IT spanning
enterprise systems management, software architecture and development, industry
training, and a high-tech start-up, I returned to university to study community
informatics and qualified as a librarian. However, having caught the
study/research bug, I completed my masters (Honours) degree while also teaching
at the university. My master's thesis took a design-science approach to
investigating archival systems interoperability and identified a number of
technological and social barriers to equitable and consistent community access
to institutional archives. I am now a doctoral candidate, concerned with investigating
these barriers. My research will comprise theoretical as well as
design-science/action-research investigations of systems interoperability,
conceptual modelling in archival informatics, metadata standards-setting, and
organisational/social factors in archival systems design and implementation.
Heather Ryan
I will begin my
appointment as Assistant Professor at the University of Denver Library and
Information Science Program in March 2014, where my teaching will center on
archives and digital information management.
I was a
Carolina Digital Curation Doctoral Fellow at the School of Information and
Library Science at the University of North Carolina (SILS-UNC) at Chapel Hill
from 2008-2011. I will defend my dissertation, Who’s Afraid of File Format
Obsolescence? Evaluating File Format Endangerment Levels and Factors for the
Creation of a File Format Endangerment Index, in March 2014, and I will
complete a Ph.D. in Information and Library Science from SILS-UNC in May 2014.
I received a
Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of
Denver, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from New Mexico State
University. I spent substantial portions of my adult life working in libraries.
I worked on special collections and archives projects where I digitized,
created EAD finding aids, and metadata for archival collections at the
University of Denver. My primary research interests revolve around the
challenges associated with the long-term management of digital information, and
I hope to help make this process easier and more sustainable for archivists in
the future.
Takahiro Sakaguchi
Takahiro
Sakaguchi is an Assistant Professor at Kyoto University Archives, Japan. In
addition to doing his own research, for the past three years he has been
responsible for many professional tasks at one of the largest university
archives in Japan. He was a researcher in the Department of Archival Studies in
the National Institute of Japanese Literature, and has engaged in archival work
at several universities.
In 2014, he is expected to receive a Ph.D. in archival science from the
Graduate School of Humanities, Gakushuin University. Supervised by Professor
Masahito Ando, his dissertation explores the formulation of recordkeeping
systems and methodologies in the United States and their introduction and
transformation in modern Japan. In 2008, he entered the university’s Graduate
Course in Archival Science as one of the first doctoral students. He holds a
B.A. in law (2002) and M.A. in Cultural Information Resources (2004). His
research interests include the installation and diffusion of Western
recordkeeping systems in modern Japan, the interaction between academic
archival disciplines and business-like records management procedures, a
comparative history of records management in the United States and Japan, the
relationship between filing systems and archival finding aids, and, finally,
organizational culture and recordkeeping methodologies. As a part-time
lecturer, he has taught records management and archives to undergraduate
students for six years at Shizuoka University and Surugadai University.
Kay Sanderson
Kay Sanderson
has been involved in New Zealand’s tertiary education sector since 2005,
initially as a Lecturer at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand and more
recently as a casually employed teaching assistant and a PhD student at
Victoria University of Wellington. In the earlier stages of her career, she
worked as a practitioner in both archives and libraries. Kay’s philosophy in
research and teaching is critical with transformatory aspirations. Her thinking
has been deeply influenced by the philosophy of knowledge known as critical
realism, Bruno Latour’s writings on actor-network theory, Frank Upward’s
continuum theory, and by ideas about digital materiality and technogenisis that
are emerging in digital humanities scholarship. All of these bodies of work
open the way for seeing knowledge, evidence, systems, records, and purportedly
“other” types of heritage objects in terms of space-time and stance contingent
connectedness, rather than in terms of narrow definitions, fixed closed
categories, and rigidly opposed epistemological stances. The title of Kay’s
thesis is Digital materiality, heritage objects, the emergence of evidence, and
the design of knowledge enabling systems. It is a philosophy-led and case study
informed conceptual analysis and evaluation of the competing discourses that
exist within the archives domain and a reflection on the relevance of key
archives domain concepts and practices for the design of knowledge enabling
systems in the heritage collecting community.
Kirk Savage
Kirk Savage is
a professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the
University of Pittsburgh. He has
published widely on public monuments in the U.S. for the past thirty years. He is the author of two prize-winning books,
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth
Century America (Princeton, 1997) and Monument Wars: Washington D.C., the
National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape (University of
California, 2009).
Anna Sexton
I have
previously worked as an academic researcher at UCL (LEADERS Project) as well as
an archive manager in a local authority context and I am now in my final year
of a PhD at UCL. My research interests are focused on exploring how archival
processes can become more participative; as well as looking at ways in which
academics can work collaboratively 'with' and 'not' on communities. My PhD
research is based in the Special Collections Department at the Wellcome Library
in London and has involved Participatory Action Research with a marginalized
stakeholder group to build a new digital archive collection based around lived
experiences of recovery in mental health. In exploring the institutional
context in which this research is embedded I am currently analyzing the
historical development of the Wellcome's existing archival holdings in relation
to mental health to examine the extent to which (and the reasons why) voices
from individuals with lived experience are excluded from the historical record.
I am also seeking to understand how current practice, policy and attitudes
within the Special Collections team may create barriers both to the adoption of
participatory approaches and to addressing exclusions within the collections.
The broad aim of my current research (both within my PhD and beyond) is to
examine how mainstream institutions work with their stakeholders and
communities and to explore the degree to which it is possible for the
mainstream to foster genuinely participative external relationships where
authority and control is equitably shared.
Kelly Shaffer
Kelly Shaffer
is now the Assistant Director of Marketing & Communications for the
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. While the Director of External
Relations at Pitt’s iSchool, she helped numerous faculty and students describe
complex research problems, processes and outcomes for journal articles,
conference posters and presentations, job talks, and meetings with corporate
partners. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh, Ms. Shaffer worked in
marketing and sales for a broad range of non-profits covering the arts, history
and heritage, performing arts, as well as an engineering firm.
Seth Shaw
Seth
Shaw's teaching and research focus is on the impact of electronic records
archival principles and practice. Class discussions emphasizes analyzing
articulating theory and providing examples of practical implications. His
research investigates practical solutions to electronic records workflow and
management issues.
Seth received his
Bachelors of Science in Information Systems from Brigham Young University –
Idaho in 2005 and then his Masters of Science in Information, Archives &
Records Management from the University of Michigan's School of Information in
2007. From 2007-2013 he was the Electronic Records Archivist for Duke
University Archives where he was responsible for everything born-digital in the
University Archives & Special Collections. In addition to his instruction
at Clayton State he teaches the Society of American Archivists' "Managing
Electronic Records in Archives & Special Collections" workshop as part
of the Digital Archives Specialist curriculum. He has also taught workshops for
the Society of North Carolina Archivists and South Carolina Archivists
Association. Seth is a past chair of the Electronic Records Section of the
Society of American Archivists and currently serves on its Steering Committee.
Rebecka Sheffield
Rebecka
Sheffield is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Information at the
University of Toronto and the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Studies in Sexual
Diversity Studies. Her research draws from social movement theory and archival
studies to explore the trajectories of queer archives as social movement
organizations. Rebecka’s dissertation project examines queer archives at a
particular moment in time when the socio- political environment has opened up opportunities for these
organizations to engage with the mainstream in ways previously unavailable. She
has served as guest editor of Archivaria’s Special Section on Queer Archives
and has been published in Museum Management & Curatorship and American
Archivist. She is a volunteer archivist at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay
Archives in Toronto.
Donghee Sinn
Donghee Sinn is
an Assistant Professor of the Department of Information Studies, University at
Albany (State University of New York). She specializes in Archives and Records
Management, and her research interests focus particularly on the archival
research in relation with personal archiving and public memory in the digital
environment and archival use/user studies of primary sources in digital
formats. Her current projects include quantitative approaches to personal
digital archiving practices. She has a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science
from the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, she worked at the National
Archives of Korea in acquisition and appraisal.
Heather Soyka
Heather Soyka
is a current doctoral student in archival studies at the University of
Pittsburgh’s School of Library and Information Sciences. Her research interests
include recordkeeping behavior, documentation of war and conflict, knowledge
transfer, community recordkeeping, and the relationships between organizational
and personal records. Her dissertation centers on using the participation and
record creating behaviors of active military officers within a particular
community of practice as a lens for exploring what this can reveal about the
records continuum as a model. She holds a master's degree from the Graduate
School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College with a
concentration in archives and records management.
As a teaching
fellow, teaching assistant, and research assistant at the University of
Pittsburgh iSchool, Heather has taken advantage of the opportunity to explore
issues of access, advocacy, and sustainability in the classroom. Teaching a
variety of archives and preservation courses, as well as providing support for
LIS courses related to technology, copyright, research methods and management
has allowed her to build a personal foundation and philosophy of balanced
teaching and research practices.
Tamara Stefanac
I am currently
the Director of the Croatian Railway Museum. My professional development began,
however, while I was working as a museum archivist at this museum and I started
questioning the relationships between information and archival theory and their
application in daily practice. I earned a Masters’ Degree in Art History and
Comparative Literature and a Masters’ Degree in Archivistics at the University
of Zagreb (Croatia). I am currently a postgraduate student at the University of
Zadar (Croatia) in the field of Archival Science. In my doctoral research paper
entitled ”The Conceptualization of Archival Materials Held in Museums“ I
examine different perspectives in the description of archival materials in
museums and the relationships between what is considered to be an archival item
and what a museum object.
Jenny Stevenson
Jenny Stevenson
recently finished her second year of doctoral work at University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Jenny graduated with a MLIS and concentration in Archival
Studies in December 2010. She then went on to receive her Certificate of
Advanced Study in Digital Libraries. Her research interests are invested in the
field of archival studies. Specifically, digital archives, new and social
media, and user studies and archival software development. She is interested in
information retrieval and the social impacts of information and communication
technology amongst different user groups.
Professionally,
Jenny has been working in the world of digital archives. Over the past several
years she has worked at several institutions as a digital archivist consultant.
Naya Sucha-xaya
I started my
academic career path in the field of archives by assisting in historical
research on the dissemination of Buddhist sacred texts from Thailand inside and
outside of the country in the nineteenth century during the era of imperialism
in Southeast Asia. From these beginnings as a user of archives with personal
interest in culture and society, I earned a master's degree in archives and
records management and am now conducting PhD research in archival science on
sociocultural impacts on archival practice.
My academic
interests include studying the different values of archives and their relation
to society. My research objectives are to increase the profile of archives in
Thai society and to help people see their connection with archives so that they
can more readily recognise the value of archives in their lives.
My scholarship
philosophy in pursuing these objectives includes participating in the
advancement of the field of archives, understanding the social side of archives
and maintaining relationships with other disciplines.
Tonia Sutherland
Tonia
Sutherland holds a BA in theater, history and cultural studies from Hampshire
College and an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. Tonia has worked as a
Research Library Resident in Special Collections & University Archives and
Reference Services at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in addition to
serving as University Archivist at the same institution. More recently, as
Records Management Coordinator for Bucknell University, Tonia created and implemented
a campus-wide Records Management initiative. Now a doctoral candidate at the
University of Pittsburgh, Tonia’s research interests include information
policy, critical heritage studies, intersections between technology and the
arts, and examing connections between contemporary archivy and forms of
intangible cultural heritage. Tonia's dissertation examines the ways
performance is persistently represented in archives, exploring issues of
archival custody and problem atizing prevailing notions of information as
evidence in archives. In addition to her research, Tonia is a dedicated
educator. She teaches courses such as Archives and Performance, Archival Access
and Representation and International Perspectives on Archives at Pitt's
iSchool.
Biyong Tan
Biyong Tan is
an associate professor in the School of History and Culture, Shandong
University. He holds a doctorate in Archival Studies from the School of
Information Management, Wuhan University. His research interests include
Archival education and professional responsibility, Community archives and
Cultural Identity, digital preservation of intangible cultural heritage. He has
finished two research projects sponsored by Shandong Postdoctoral Science
Foundation and Humanities and Social Science Foundation of Ministry of
Education of China. Currently he is the principle investigator (2013-2016)
sponsored by National Social Science Foundation of China: The Comparative Study
of Public Archives Growth Path between China and Western Countries: Theory,
Practice and Solution. With the annual fund from China Scholarship Council, he
now takes up a visiting scholar position in the Department of Information
Studies at the University of California Los Angeles from August 2013 to August
2014.
Narissa Timbery
I am an Aboriginal
woman from the New South Wales South Coast, Australia. With a Bachelor of
Education my early career was in education. Whilst working at the University of
Wollongong’s Aboriginal Education Centre (AEC) as an Aboriginal Studies
resource officer and part time teacher I found that I was being drawn to the
field of Information Management (specifically archives) rather than teaching.
In 2005 I started my new career choice by undertaking a Masters of Information
Management and Systems, which I completed in 2009.
I commenced
part time work as a Document Officer for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Audiovisual Archive. In this role
I digitized paper records, auditioned sound recordings and compiled finding
aids. I then worked in the Access unit where I facilitated access to the
collections. My last role at AIATSIS was in the Library as
Archivists/Manuscripts Officer, where I worked with the manuscript collection.
I found my
passion and have not looked back. My work with AIATSIS reflected this passion.
It provided me with opportunities to research and understand the collections
whilst providing documentation to assist others who want to also access the
collections
I commenced my PhD ‘Visualising Country: Archiving Virtual 3D Models’ in August
2013 at Monash University. My research will provide me with further
opportunities to work with Indigenous communities. My ambition is to produce a
body of work that will be of use for Indigenous communities who are trying to
preserve material on Country.
Andy Uhrich
I am PhD
student in the Film and Media Studies program at Indiana University. I am
currently scoping out my dissertation project on a history and ethnography of
amateur forms of media archiving focusing on the contentious relationship
between archives and private film collectors. This examination of vernacular
archiving is an outgrowth of my interest in participatory forms of media making
including my work on the board of the Center for Home Movies. My goal is to
make audiovisual archiving more of a community-based practice, where the
decisions on what is selected for the archive and how, and in fact what
constitutes an archive, is an open process between a range of stakeholders.
This focus on
the community arises from my work at the Chicago Film Archives, where archival
films are directed back to the specific neighborhoods where they were
originally filmed, both geographically and demographically speaking.
In 2010, I
graduated from the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation graduate program
from New York University. My thesis considered issues of preserving early
computer art and the challenges facing an independent archive without the
institutional funding for large-scale digital infrastructure.
I have been
lucky enough to teach a moving image preservation class to graduate students at
Indiana University’s library school. I found it an exciting challenge to
translate my work and educational experiences into a useful curriculum
imparting real-world skills to other students interested in archives and media
preservation.
David A. Wallace
Hi. I have been a full-time graduate archival educator since 1997. My
research focuses primarily on the intersections between archives, ethics, and social justice. I am editor of a special double issue of Archival Science on "Archives and the Ethics of Memory Construction" (2011); co-editor of Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society (2002), and served as the Series Technical Editor for twelve volumes of the National Security Archive's The Making of U.S. Policy series (1989-1992). From 2002-2005 I was the key partner in envisioning and establishing the Freedom of Information Programme (FOIP) at the South African History Archive (SAHA). Since 2009 I have served as primary collaborator and project archivist to Stories for Hope - Rwanda (SFH), an inter-generational dialogue project that combines psychology with archives. From 2010-2012 I was Co-PI on a National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Education and Training grant entitled Preservation and Access Virtual Education Laboratory for Digital Humanities. Currently, I am involved in research collaborations on the Social Justice Impact of Archives and Community, Memory, and Ethical Access to Music from The Ark and the African Field projects.
Kelvin White
Using social
justice as a framework, Dr. Kelvin White’s research examines the
interconnections between the social, cultural, and historical contexts in which
recordkeeping activities exist and the implications they have for marginalized
or underrepresented communities; critically interrogates contemporary archival
theory and other constructs such as archival education and practice; and
develops ways in which education and pedagogy might contribute to cultural
relevancy and sensitivity in archival practice and research. His current
research includes understanding how tribal culture influences recordkeeping
activities in Osage and Comanche nations of Oklahoma.
Dr. White is a
co-principal investigator of the Archival Education and Research Institute
(AERI), which is a collaboration of archival education programs that aims to
educate a new generation of academics in archival education who are versed in
contemporary. He is also the Vice President of the International Council on
Archive’s Section of Archival Education and Training (SAE) and is the Co-Chair
of the Society of American Archivists’ Cultural Heritage Working Group (CPWG).
Eliot Wilczek
Eliot Wilczek
is a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science
at Simmons College, and currently serves as the Acting Director for Digital
Collections and Archives at Tufts University. He holds an MS in library and
information science with an archives concentration and an MA in history— both
from Simmons College. He served as an adjunct instructor at Simmons GSLIS from
2005 through 2010, teaching archives and records management courses.
His research interests center on recordkeeping behavior, records management, and archival appraisal. His dissertation explores the relationship between how organizations understand and document wicked problems through an examination of US advisor province reports written during the Vietnam War.
Heather Willever-Farr
I hold a
master’s in history and am pursuing my doctorate in information studies at
Drexel University. In addition to my doctoral work, I teach courses on archives
and nursing informatics. Previously, I managed the American College of
Physicians' archives and records management program, and served as the State of
Indiana Electronic Records Archivist and the head of the State of Indiana's
records management program. I also served as a project archivist at the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin Archives, and
the History Division of the National Library of Medicine.
My doctoral
research focuses on the collaborative production of family histories on the
websites such as ancestry.com and findagrave.com. To build an understanding of
the social and technical features of websites for collaborative content
building, I study online artifacts produced by website contributors, the
systems that support these production activities, and website contributors'
experiences with collaborative work. Family history researchers’ (FHRs)
collaborative content production results in rich information and primary
materials worthy of long-term preservation, yet much of this activity is
occurring outside of the walls of memory institutions on commercial- and
community-based websites. Building an understanding of the social norms, the
research and content production practices, and the tensions and conflicts that
arise within these online communities is necessary if memory institutions hope
to have a role in the long- term preservation of this content. Les sons learned
from these communities may also help to inform archival participatory practices
and the design of participatory spaces on archival websites.
Stacy Wood
Stacy Wood is
currently a second year doctoral student in Information Studies at the
University of California Los Angeles. She has a Bachelor of Arts in World
Literature and Gender Studies from Pitzer College and a Masters in Library and
Information Studies from University of California Los Angeles. She is currently
working with the Center for the Study of Women on an NEH funded project to
process, digitize and publicize the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives. Her
research interests are archival history, government documents, military
intelligence, infrastructure studies, critical bureaucracy studies and the role
of archival documents in popular culture.
Laura Wynholds
I am a doctoral
candidate in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
My studies have focused on data practices in the sciences, with an emphasis on
questions of data stewardship, curation, and sharing. My dissertation research
explores cases where health data and medical information structures produce and
reinforce information disparities for marginalized communities.
Prior to coming
to UCLA I earned an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and worked
at the UC Davis Libraries for 8 years.
Elizabeth Yakel
Eizabeth Yakel is a Professor at the University of
Michigan School of Information where she teaches in the Archives, Records management, and
Digital preservation areas. Her teaching goal is to create engaging and
challenging learning experiences the help students to become change agents in
the archival profession. Beth's research focuses on the use and users of
archives, particular digital archives and collections. Her current research
project is Dissemination Information Packages for Information Reuse (http://dipir.org) funded by the Institute for Museum
and Library Services. This research focuses on data reuse in three disciplinary
communities: quantitative social science, archaeology, and zoology. Previously
research projects include the Archival Metrics Project and the Economic Impact
of Archives Project (http://archivalmetrics.org) (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission).
Beth is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists.
Ayoung Yoon
I am a doctoral
candidate in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have an MSI from the School of Information at
the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, specializing in both archives and records
management & preservation of information, along with a BA in history from
Ewha Womans University, South Korea.
My broad
research interests include digital preservation, data curation, and personal
digital archiving. I am currently working on my dissertation, which explores
data reusers’ trust judgment during the process of data reuse and implications
for data curation.
Eunha Youn
Eunha (Anna)
Youn is a research faculty in Graduate School of Archives and Records
Management in Chonbuk National University, Korea. Her research focuses on
culture, society and archival technology. She is especially interested in the
effects of cultural elements on archival technology. Her current research is to
explore how the concept of community archives is applying to non-western local
environment in Korea.
Jane Zhang
Jane Zhang is
an assistant professor at the Department of Library and Information Science,
the Catholic University of America (CUA-LIS). She holds a PhD in Library and
Information Studies with archival concentration from Simmons College, Boston
(2011), and a joint Master of Archival Studies (MAS) and Library and
Information Studies (MLIS) from the University of British Columbia, Canada
(2001). Before joining the CUA-LIS in 2011, Jane worked at the Harvard
University Archives as a records analyst (2003- 2010) and at the University of
Calgary Archives as an assistant archivist (2001-2003).
Jane Zhang is a
key faculty member in the CUA-LIS Cultural Heritage Information Management
(CHIM) course of study. She currently teaches three CHIM courses: Archives Management,
Electronic Records and Digital Archives, and Digital Curation, and one LIS
foundation course: Organization of Information. Her research areas cover
records and recordkeeping, archival theory and practice, electronic records and
digital archives, and theory and application of information organization and
representation. Research papers she has recently published or submitted
include: “Archival Representation in the Digital Age” (Journal of Archival
Organization 10, 2012), “Original Order in Digital Archives” (Archivaria 74,
2012), “When Archival Description Meets Digital Object Metadata: A Typological
Study of Digital Archival Representation” (American Archivist 76, 2013),
“Recordkeeping in Book Form: The Legacy of American Colonial Recordkeeping”,
“Electronic Records in the Archival Curriculum”, and “Correspondence as a
Documentary Form and Its Persistent Representation in Digital Archives”.