Archives and Public History Faculty
Mary Kidd
Mary Kidd (mary.kidd@nyu.edu) is the Technical Lead for Archival Systems at Yale University. Previously, she served as the Systems and Operations Manager at the New York Public Library. She has consulted and led a number of digital preservation projects and initiatives including Preserve This Podcast and Maintenance Culture, and was a National Digital Stewardship Resident at New York Public Radio Archives. She holds an MLIS from Long Island University and a BA in Gender and Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. TEACHES: Digital Archives
Michael Lorenzini
Michael Lorenzini (lorenzini.me@gmail.com) is an archivist, writer, and photographer. He has worked at the New York City Department of Records since 1997, currently as Operations Manager, and prior to that as Curator of Photography and Deputy Director of the Municipal Archives. He initiated the first digitization program for the agency and led the recovery and processing of many important photographic collections including the NYPD photo archive. He has taught the preservation of cultural heritage materials at Queens College since 2015. He began teaching in NYU’s Archives and Public History Program in 2020. Before working in archives, he was a photo book editor at Aperture. He is the author of New York Rises (Aperture, 2007), about the photographs of Eugene de Salignac whose work he discovered and whose life story he uncovered. It was the winner of the New York Society Library’s New York Book Award. TEACHES: Introduction to Preservation for Archives
Zakiya Collier
Zakiya Collier (zakiya.collier@nyu.edu) is a multidisciplinary archivist, memory worker, and educator. Her work and research explore archival practices that account for the material conditions of Black life and the role of cooperative thought in the sustainability of cultural memory. She is the founder and steward of The Black Memory Workers, a community of over 300 Black diasporic memory workers committed to practicing care and intention as they prioritize the documentation, long-term preservation, and celebration of Black life and experiences. Currently, Zakiya is a 2025 Create Change Artist-in-Residence with The Laundromat Project, an Adjunct Professor at Queens College (CUNY), and the Program Director for Archiving the Black Web. She is also a co-producer on the forthcoming documentary film, Somebody’s Gone, and co-editor of a special double issue of The Black Scholar on Black Archival Practice. She holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of South Carolina, an MLIS from Long Island University, and an MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University. TEACHES: Introduction to Archives
Ellen Noonan
Ellen Noonan (ellen.noonan@nyu.edu) is the Director of the Archives and Public History Program. She has spent nearly two decades working as a historian, media producer, and instructional designer and began teaching in NYU’s Archives and Public History Program in 2011. In her work at the American Social History Project, she created and led numerous professional development and curriculum development programs serving social studies teachers in the New York City public schools. She has also helped to conceptualize and build several public history and history education digital projects, including the award-winning online interactive game series Mission US; HERB: Social History for Every Classroom; The Lost Museum; The September 11 Digital Archive; and History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web. Ellen is the author of The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess: Race, Culture, and America’s Most Famous Opera (University of North Carolina, 2012), which examines the opera’s long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of twentieth-century American expectations about race, culture, and the struggle for equality. TEACHES: Introduction to Public History, Approaches to Public History, Internship Seminar, Research in Public History and Archives
Leah Potter
Leah Potter (leahyale@gmail.com) is a writer and instructional designer at Electric Funstuff, an educational game studio located in New York City. She is one of the original developers of Mission US, a series of free, online video games about pivotal moments in U.S. history, produced in partnership with WNET and the American Social History Project (ASHP). From 2006 to 2014, Leah worked at ASHP, collaborating on several digital and professional development projects that support the teaching and learning of American history. She is also the co-creator of “Hats & Ladders,” a mobile app recently awarded the grand prize in the White House’s Reach Higher Career App Challenge. TEACHES: Creating Digital History
Molly Rosner
Molly Rosner is Assistant Director of Education Programs at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark, her MA in Oral History from Columbia University, and her BA in American Studies from Wesleyan University. She has worked in the education departments of cultural institutions around New York City, including the Museum of the City of New York, the Apollo Theater, and the Brooklyn Museum. Her writing has appeared in outlets including the L.A. Review of Books, Salon, Huffington Post, the Gotham Center Blog, Jeunesse, and The Public Historian. Her book Playing with History: American Identities and Children’s Consumer Culture examines political and ideological messages embedded in children’s amusements throughout the twentieth century. Molly is passionate about serving New York, the city in which she was born and raised. TEACHES: Local and Community History
Maggie Schreiner
Maggie Schreiner (maggie.schreiner@nyu.edu) is a PhD candidate in History at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She has fifteen years of experience working at the intersection of archives and public history, and has held positions at NYU’s Tamiment Library and Wagner Labor Archives, the Queens Memory program at Queens Public Library, and was the Manager of Archives and Special Collections at Brooklyn Historical Society (now the Center for Brooklyn History). Maggie is a long-time volunteer at Interference Archive, serves on the advisory committee of the LGBT Community Center National History Archive, and is a project director of the CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities Digital Archive. Maggie holds a BA from McGill University and a MA in Archives and Public History from New York University. TEACHES: Community Archives
Kevin Schlottmann
