Congratulations to APH Program Director Ellen Noonan and her colleagues, Jacob Remes, Valerie Marlowe, and Scott Gabriel Knowles, who were awarded an NYU Center for the Humanities Seed Grant for their multi-year project, the COVID Collections Project. The COVID Collections Project aims to catalogue COVID-19 oral history, documentation, and archiving projects that have begun since winter 2020 and to develop a website that will help researchers find these collections.
Archives and Public History
Recent Publication: Film Comment Newsletter and Magazine Articles (Clinton Krute, APH 2019)
Archives and Public History graduate, Clinton Krute (2019), publishes regular articles for Film Comment’s weekly newsletter and magazine, where he also serves as Co-Deputy Editor. Film Comment began in 1962 as an independent publication of Film at Lincoln Center. Today, Film Comment has a robust digital component, with a podcast and online newsletters that feature film journalism, recommendations criticism, music playlists and interviews with filmmakers and actors.
Recent Publication: “History Disrupted” (Jason Steinhauer, APH 2007)
Jason Steinhauer (APH 2007) recently published History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past about how the internet and social media have shaped our conceptions of the past. Steinhauer is an author, public historian, and the host of his podcast, History Club, which holds historically-informed and civic-minded conversations at the intersection of history, tech, media and politics.
Recent Publication: Smithsonian Institution Archives Blog (Deborah Shapiro, APH 2016)
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.
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.