Josie Naron (APH 2020) is the Digital Projects Specialist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Josie co-wrote and published a book review of A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture in Volume 85, Issue 2 of The American Archivist. The review addresses the book’s strengths as a resource for contemporary discourse regarding memory and ownership, but also dives into the book’s strengths and weaknesses from an archivist’s standpoint.
Molly Rosner, the Assistant Director of Education Programs at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY, published a new website “Making it Here: Women in New York City Politics.” The website features the work of the Gardiner-Shenker Student Scholars, who spent last year studying local female leadership in honor of the City Council’s first-ever female majority. The students conducted research at the archives, learned to do oral history interviews, interviewed elected officials, and created their own written and photographic essays about challenges facing the city and the ways the community is addressing them. Students worked closely on their projects with mentors from the Political Science and Commercial Photography Departments: Nichole Shippen, Anja Vojvodic, Maureen Drennan and Lidiya Kan.
Todd Simmons (APH 2022), presented in person at a conference in Metz, France for the anniversary of John Berger’s book Ways of Seeing. The title of his paper was “Seeing the Swinish Multitude” and was based on his Master’s Thesis. Todd also presented a second paper via Zoom for a conference in Lisbon entitled “Consuming Werewolves, Consuming Humans” based on his work with Professor Daniel Jütte. Congratulations Todd!
Alyssa Moore (APH 2024) accepted an internship with the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center Archives. Alyssa will help preserve, arrange, and describe unique historical collections documenting the history of the second-oldest hospital in the United States. She was also awarded the Phi Alpha Theta Thomas S. Morgan Memorial Graduate Student Scholarship for the 2022-23 academic year, which is awarded annually to a graduate student entering a Master’s program in History or Library Science-Archives.
Aliza Hornblass, an alumna of the Archives and Public History/Long Island University Dual Degree Program (MA 2022), was recently hired as a librarian trainee at Long Beach Public Library. Congratulations, Aliza!
Congratulations to Archives & Public History faculty member Molly Rosner, whose article “Dollface: The Material of Femininity” was published in the Fall ’22 Special issue of the journal Material Culture! Molly Rosner is Assistant Director of Education Programs at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY and teaches Local and Community History in the Archives and Public History Program.