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.
Archives and Public History
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.
APH Student Wins Summer Graduate Urban Public Humanities Fellowship (Katie Heiserman, APH 2023)
Archives and Public History student Katie Heiserman is the 2022 
winner of the Summer Graduate Urban Public Humanities Fellowship from the NYU Cities Collaborative and the GSAS Public Humanities Initiative. Heiserman will be working as a Summer Fellow at the American Association for State and Local History. Congratulations Katie!
APH Graduate Publishes in The American Archivist (Caitlin Biggers, APH 2016)
Archives and Public History alum
Caitlin Biggers recently published an article titled Archivists and Architects: A Case Study on Mitigating Design Cataloging Challenges through Copyright Outreach in The American Archivist. The article is about the efforts of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive of The Cooper Union to fuse copyright outreach together with author-generated metadata. Congratulations on the publication Caitlin!
NYU Center for the Humanities Highlights APH Student’s Vision Grant Award (Julia Butterfield, APH 2022)
NYU Center for the Humanities recently profiled Archives and Public History student Julia Butterfield on her accomplishments and passion for history and education. Butterfield was awarded a Vision Grant from Humanities New York for her involvement in a project at the Morris–Jumel Mansion. The vision grant began in the summer of 2021 and is funding Butterfield’s continued research of the Northup family, a free Black family from New York, and their relationship to the Morris–Jumel Mansion. Butterfield is graduating from the Archives and Public History program this spring. Congratulations Julia!
Archives and Public History Student Awarded Summer Fellowship (Quin DeLaRosa, APH 2022)
Quin DeLaRosa was recently awarded a summer archival fellowship with the Special Collections Department at Princeton University’s Mudd Manuscript Library. DeLaRosa will graduate from the Archives and Public History department this spring with a concentrated focus in Archives. Congratulations Quin!