Smithsonian Archivist, Deborah Shapiro, publishes regular blog posts on a variety of archival topics. Her most recent post highlights strategies to conduct research while the Smithsonian reading room is closed to the public. Shapiro also publishes bi-weekly blog posts called “Link Love” where information about archival practice, history and culture are explored.
Archives for September 2022
APH student presents at The Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting (Lia Warner, APH 2023)
Lia Warner (APH, 2023) presented her paper “Archival Labor and Labor Power: Seizing the COVID-19 Moment to Rethink History-Making and Sources of Power for the Labor Movement” at The Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in Boston this August. Her work is based on research conducted with COVID Collections Project, a joint initiative between the Archives and Public History Program and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study Initiative for Critical Disaster Studies, and the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center.
APH student awarded Barnard Archives and Special Collections Fellowship and METRO Equity Mentorship Program
Congratulations to Olivia Newsome (BA/MA Archives and Public History)! Olivia was awarded a Fellowship at the Barnard Archives and Special Collections. This cohort of Archives Processing Fellows will gain hands-on experience in an academic institutional archives and special collections, with a focus on processing archival collections. Fellows are also encouraged in the latter half of their fellowship to develop independent projects. Olivia also accepted a place in the METRO Equity Mentorship Program. This program supports BIPOC students and early professionals in the library and archives field through coursework provided by leaders in the field, as well as participation in continuing education.
Recent Publication: Art, archives, and oral history in Acid Free (Josie Naron, APH 2020)
Archives and Public History graduate Josie Naron and her colleague published a piece on art, archives, and oral history in the fourteenth issue of Acid Free, a biannual online publication of the Los Angeles Archivists Collective. The article is about an initiative by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute to create oral histories in collaboration with researchers and members of artists’ estates and foundations. Josie is the Digital Projects Specialist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and a contractor on The Wildenstein Plattner Institute’s ongoing oral history initiatives.
Recent Publication: Toni Morrison’s memo on Angela Davis (Celeste Brewer, APH 2016)
Archives and Public History graduate Celeste Brewer published and transcribed a piece in January, 2022 for the “news” section for Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The piece highlights a 1974 memo from Toni Morrison to Bantam Books publishers about suggested edits to Angela Davis’ Autobiography that is in the Library’s collection. Brewer is the Processing Archivist for the library and regularly publishes posts about relevant archival topics.