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Archives and Public History Alumni

Archives and public history graduates work in a variety of public, academic,
corporate and nonprofit venues. This photo captures the bridge in the outdoor
Japanese Garden at Duke Farms in Hillsborough, NJ, where Liz Steinberg works
as archivist for the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Public History Alumni                                                                         

We are currently in the process of updating Public History alumni profiles and will be posting them soon here. Any graduates wishing to update their profile or to inform us of their current work in the field are encouraged to contact Professor Peter Wosh at pw1@nyu.edu. Since the inception of NYU’s Public History program in 1981, more than 125 students have participated in the program. They serve as practicing public historians in leading museums, historical societies, and organizations. Several also teach at colleges and universities throughout the United States.  

Among the many institutions in which NYU Public History graduates have worked are:

American Jewish Museum
American Social History Project
Arizona State University
Benjamin Franklin Papers
Brooklyn College
City Lore
Clio, Inc.
Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame
General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
Greenwich House Workshop
Los Angeles Conservancy
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum
Museum of the City of New York
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
New-York Historical Society
New York Public Library
Pennsylvania State University
Seton Hall University
University of Minnesota
Worcester Polytechnic University    

Archives Alumni

Since 1977, nearly two hundred students have received archival certificates from New York University. We are in the process of updating alumni profiles, and encourage alumni to contribute biographical information and reminiscences to Peter Wosh at pw1@nyu.edu.

Monica Albala is the archivist for the Sands Point Preserve and Nassau County Museum. She fills a variety of roles at the Preserve and Museum, including curator, exhibit supervisor, volunteer coordinator, and commercial photography coordinator. "Great Expectations," with Anne Bancroft and Ethan Hawke, was partially filmed at the Museum's Gold Coast estate (Hempstead House) in August 1996. Monica also recently published two papers: "Theodore Roosevelt: The Man and the Image," and "All Singing! No Talking! The Operatic American Musical."  

Susan Aprill now works as an archivist responsible for the Brooklyn Collection at the Brooklyn Public Library. From 1995 until 2001, she had served as the first full-time archivist at Edwin Schlossberg, Inc. (ESI). Susan is also very active professionally, serving on the Publications Committee and Spring 1998 Program Committee for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC). Her rock group, "The Church Keys" has also been appearing in a variety of New York City venues, including CBGBs and Coney Island High. So, "Ale Up With The Church Keys." 

Elizabeth (Arena) Steinberg, who received her M.A. in History and Certificate in Archival Management from NYU in May 2000, has been named archivist at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in Somerville, NJ. Prior to assuming this position, Liz worked as an archivist with American International Group (AIG) in New York City (2000-2002). She also won a MARAC student scholarship to attend the Spring 2000 meeting, and became a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists in September 2000. While working toward her degree, Liz interned at the American Express Archives, the New York Historical Society, and the National Archives-Northeast Region. On a personal note, Liz was married in October 2001.

Maurita Baldock is currently working as the Institutional Archivist at the New-York Historical Society.  Maurita received her M.A. in History and Archival Certificate in the Spring of 2000.   While a student at NYU, Maurita interned in the Prints and Photographs division at the Library of Congress and in the Manuscripts and Archives department at the New York Public Library.  She previously worked on two separate projects at the New-York Historical Society.  One project was funded by the Mellon Foundation to process the Society’s collections of New York City material and to mark up finding aids in EAD.  Her second project was a two-year grant from NHPRC to process the papers of the architect Cass Gilbert.  Maurita is currently working on completing her M.L.S. from the Pratt Institute.

Barbara Benson is now University Records Officer in the Records Management Services area at the University of Washington. Before moving to Seattle, she had worked as University Archivist at Seton Hall University, where she also had responsibility for administering the archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark and materials collected by the New Jersey Catholic Historical Records Commission. Barbara began her archival career with the New York State Archives. She is enjoying life in the Great Northwest.

Svanhildur Bogadottir has been city archivist of Reykjavik and director of the Municipal Archives in that city since 1987. She notes that it has been a challenge to "try to change the thinking about archives and records management among Icelanders." Svanhildur currently is serving her second term as vice chair (president) of the Icelandic Records Management Association, and had chaired that organization from 1990-1991. The City Archives of Reykjavik is starting to collect private collections of records from societies, associations, companies, and individuals, and Svanhildur has been interviewed on national radio about this pathbreaking project. She still lives in "the same quiet neighborhood in Reykjavik" and now has two children, age five and four. 

Scott Bowker, a 1984 graduate of the archival management program, currently serves as Records Manager for several of the Johnson & Johnson companies based in Raritan, New Jersey. He works closely with the Corporate Records Manager in New Brunswick NJ. 

Cara Brick moved with her family to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2005 and also celebrated the birth of her third child, Jack William Feinstein, who arrived on August 16^th.  She had been working as the archivist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, administering the papers of Dr. James Watson and other prominent scientists associated with the lab. During her time at NYU, Cara worked at the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives and the University Archives. While at the University Archives, she assisted in the creation of digital resources. In November 1997, Cara joined New York University 's Mellon Project at the New-York Historical Society as Manuscript Archivist. The goal of this Mellon Foundation- funded project is to create greater access to the more than 7000 linear feet of manuscript materials at N-YHS, and Cara has been involved in processing collections, creating MARC records, and marking up finding aids in SGML. 

Emilyn L. Brown is a full-time archivist for the Research Institute for the Study of Man (RISM) located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.  RISM was incorporated in 1955 for educational and scientific purposes by Dr. Vera D. Rubin, a recognized leader in the field of anthropology and Caribbean studies.  Emilyn also serves as a part-time archival consultant for Abyssinian Baptist Church, a historic black church in Harlem.  Emilyn is a recent recipient of an academic scholarship from the ARL Initiative to Recruit A Diverse Workforce and expects to complete the requirements for an MLS degree from Pratt Institute in May, 2007.

Frank Caputo is working as an archivist for Major League Baseball, which recently moved to the Chelsea area of New York City from southern Connecticut. Prior to that, he had served as archivist for Phoenix Communications in Secaucus, New Jersey, which previously served as the video archive and entertainment production house for Major League Baseball. Frank, an avid Yankees fan, has been archiving and enjoying the organization's extraordinary collection of game tapes, interviews, sports programs, and various other video holdings. Part of his job involves working closely with the producers of This Week In Baseball, who rely heavily on his services to find appropriate film footage for this popular series. He has also worked on a number of HBO documentaries, and (while at Phoenix) curated a significant collection relating to the World Wide Wrestling Federation as well.  

Kimberly Charlton received her M.A. in History with a Certificate in Archival Management from NYU in 1998, after having completed her B.A. in History from Cornell University in 1994. From 1996 through 1999, she worked as an Assistant Archivist at the Carnegie Hall Archives, whereupon she moved over to the New Jersey Historical Society (NJHS). Her first year at NJHS involved working on an NHPRC grant to process pre-1850 collections housed at that venerable institution, and in October 2000 she was appointed to the position of Curator of Manuscripts. As Curator, Kim was responsible for over 1,500 manuscript collections, over 100,000 photographs, more than 2,000 maps, and such rare individual items as the 1664 charter deeding the land that would become New Jersey to the Duke of York. She also served as Acting Director of the Library. On a personal note, Kim was married in June 2001 and relocated to Ithaca NY shortly thereafter. She is now back in New Jersey and most recently worked on a project for the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Sushan Chin completed her M.A. in History and Certificate in Archival Management from NYU in 1994, while working as an Associate Archivist at the New York City Municipal Archives. Later that year, she was awarded an NHPRC Fellowship in Archival Administration and worked at the Minnesota Historical Society, where she conducted an extensive Congressional records reappraisal project, while also enhancing her archival administrative experience. Sushan subsequently served as the Curator of Collections at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas (MoCA), located in the heart of New York's Chinatown. In August 1998, she accepted a position with the Ford Foundation Archives in New York City.

Lorraine Coons is now an Associate Professor of History at Chestnut Hill College, where she specializes in the Modern European field and chairs the history department. Since 1992 she has also been serving as the College's Archivist, and she finds time to continue guest lecturing for the Cunard Cruise Line's World University Program. In recent summers, she has lectured aboard the Queen Elizabeth II, Royal Viking Sun, and Vistafjord. Some recent publications include: "'Neglected Sisters' of the Women's Movement: The Perception and Experience of Working Mothers in the Parisian Garment Trades," Journal of Women's History (Fall 1993); "A 'Special Collection' in Nineteenth-Century New York: The American Bible Society and Its Library" (with Peter Wosh), Libraries and Culture (Summer 1997); and a forthcoming article tentatively titled "Gabrielle Duchene: Feminist, Pacifist, Reluctant Bourgeoisie" completed with the support of a grant from the American Philosophical Society. 

Kate Culkin completed her dissertation: “Slight a Girl as She Was: Gentility, Reform, and Harriet Hosmer,” for the New York University Department of History in September 2002 and was awarded her Ph.D. She is currently the Associate Editor at the Harriet Jacobs Papers at Pace University .

Louise Demakis spent last summer setting up a computer for the archives at the Westport (Connecticut) Historical Society. Her group was able to obtain some (free) advice from systems managers at Yale Peabody and Save The Children regarding software, and have opted for DBTextworks' database. Everything seems to be working well. Louise has also commandeered a committee of three volunteers who are working on producing finding aids for the collection, which is moving along at a slow but steady pace. Her e-mail address is: demakis@ibm.net.

Meaghan Dwyer completed her M.A. in U.S. History and her Certificate in Archives Management in 2001. After graduation, she served as the Assistant Archivist at NYU’s Archives of Irish America, where she created finding aids for various collections and worked on a digital exhibit documenting the American reaction to the 1981 IRA hunger strikes in Northern Ireland. You can visit the AIA’s website at http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/aia/. Meaghan is currently pursuing a doctorate in U.S. History at Boston College, specializing in ethnic history with a particular focus on the American Irish. She is also the project archivist at Temple Israel, Boston’s second oldest synagogue and the largest Reform congregation in New England. Hired to prepare for the Temple’s 2004 sesquicentennial, she is responsible for creating an arrangement and description scheme for existing collections, new collection policies, and records management procedures. 

Tanya Elder has a B.F.A. in Experimental Theatre (New York University, TSOA, 1987), an M.L.S. in Library Science (Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 1993), and an M.A. in History and Archival Management (New York University, 1998). She worked as an archives assistant at the NYU University Archives, and was a project archivist at the Brooklyn Historical Society, the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives (Records of the New York City Council, 1898-1998), the Stephen Wise Synagogue and held archival internships at the Louis Armstrong Archives at Queens College and the Schubert Theater Archives in Manhattan. At the Riverside Church in the City of New York, she worked on a project to establish an archive and publish a historical record of Riverside’s spiritual, social, and political activity. She has worked on independent projects for experimental theater director/agent Mark Amitin and the Newport Jazz Festival and was a researcher for the ABC/Disney production of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? As an NHPRC archivist at the Center for Jewish History in New York, she processed and organized collections and created Encoded Archival Description records for the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS). While working in conjunction with the AJHS, she had the opportunity to re- process the Papers of Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), a lawyer who coined the word ‘genocide’ and formulated the 1949 United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. This opportunity led to her writing an article entitled, "’What you see before your eyes’: documenting Raphael Lemkin's life by exploring his archival Papers, 1900–1959," published in the December 2005 edition of the Journal of Genocide Research. Currently, she is the archivist at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.

Leslie Fields was appointed Associate Curator for Literary and Historical Manuscripts at the Morgan Library in 2002, with primary responsibility for processing the archives of the Paris Review. For the preceding four and a half years, Leslie had been the Associate Curator of the Gilder Lehrman Collection at the Morgan, caring for this private collection of American historical documents, providing reference services, and preparing exhibitions. Prior to joining the Morgan, she worked as Research Associate at the Papers of Thomas Edison in West Orange, NJ while finishing up her M.A. and Certificate at NYU. Leslie also has attended the NHPRC's Historical Editing Institute in Madison, Wisconsin.  

Gino Francesconi, program alum and archivist at Carnegie Hall, was recently featured in a New York Times article entitled "In the Offing: Another Hall In Carnegie's Basement." Gino, a former Carnegie Hall usher, history buff, and student of piano and conducting, convinced the executive director of Carnegie in 1986 that the institution needed a resident archivist/historian. He entered the NYU archives program, received his training, and built an extraordinary archive of documents, artifacts, and various treasures through a series of innovative acquisition techniques. Some of his prize treasures include Benny Goodman's clarinet, Toscanini's baton, a 1964 program that announced the arrival of a new English singing group mistakenly called "The Beetles" with "John McCartney," and countless other rare and valuable documents. Currently, he is researching the architectural and artistic history of Carnegie's ornate underground recital hall, which has been reclaimed by the Hall and which may be re-created as a third performance space. 

Ira Galtman has been the Assistant Archivist for American Express Company since 1996. He is a 1995 graduate of NYU's archival program, after having received his B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1991. Entering the archival field 1993, his professional experience includes work at the National Archives - Northeast Region, DORIS - the Municipal Archives of the City of New York, and at several archives on a consulting basis for the Winthrop Group, Inc., including the New York Life Insurance Company, American Academy in Rome, and Merrill Lynch. Since 1996, he has served as the Coordinator of the Education Committee for the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York He was also a member of the 1996 New York Archives Week Committee and the 1997 MARAC Program Committee. Ira has increased the visibility of the archives at American Express by holding an Open House for company employees during Archives' Week, writing a bi-weekly column called "Ira Galtman's Blast From the Past" for a newsletter distributed via e-mail, and creating a CD-ROM containing a sampling of historical images drawn from the Archives' Digital Library of 18,000 images. He participates in several company events and helps coordinate activities for participants in the American Express Peer Employee Mentoring Network. He currently serves as President of the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York. 

Jim Gehrlich, who received a Certificate in Archival Management from NYU in January 2001, has been appointed archivist at the New York Weill Cornell Medical Center Archives on Manhattan. He had previously earned a Master of Divinity degree from Maryknoll School of Theology in 1986. Since 1994, Jim had worked as an assistant archivist at the New York Weill Cornell Medical Center Archives. Prior to that, he had served for two years as an assistant director at Maryknoll Mission Archives in Westchester County, New York. Jim received his initial introduction to archival theory and practice in 1992 at NARA's Modern Archives Institute in Washington, D.C. Before entering the archival field, Jim served as a Roman Catholic missionary priest in Bangladesh.

Stuart Glass, who received a Certificate in Archival Management and Historical Editing from NYU in May 2003, is now Assistant Archivist at the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. For the past several years, he has been a member of the Archives Committee of Congregation Rodeph Sholom, which religious institution has been in continuous existence in New York City since 1842. The intellectual interest generated by his service on that committee led to his matriculation at NYU’s archival program. Stuart is a graduate of Columbia Law School (J.D., 1960); he actively practiced law before entering the archival field.

Erika Gorder, a 1996 graduate of the program, now works as Associate Archivist in the Department of Special Collections at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. Prior to assuming her current post, she served as the archivist at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. Hired on a two-year grant, she was responsible there for the arrangement and description of sixty-five collections of personal papers, and for developing a working archival system within one of the world's largest jazz research centers. Her position at the Institute of Jazz Studies has also allowed her to pursue personal and academic interests in the historical aspects of American music and popular culture, which she actively cultivated at NYU. Immediately following graduation from NYU, Erika was appointed the Assistant Archivist at the New Jersey Historical Society. As part of the Society's archival team, she processed and catalogued the Society's immense photo collection, rehoused and surveyed the manuscript collections, and began an NHPRC-funded grant to process health care-related manuscript collections. Erika recently served as co-chair for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Spring 2000 meeting in New Brunswick, and recently curated a very attractive display at Rutgers that documents the history of gay and lesbian activism at the University. 

Jane Gorjevsky who completed her M.A. and Archival Certificate at NYU in 1999, currently works as the Archivist for the Carnegie Collections in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University, and is serving a term as president of the Archivists Round Table of the City of New York. She recently completed a two-year project at Columbia that had been funded by a Price /Waterhouse/Coopers grant, processing the accounting papers of that firm, as well as concentrating on web page design, XML, and other digital issues at Columbia. Prior to accepting the position at Columbia in 2001, she had worked as Archivist at the March of Dimes in White Plains, New York , where she played an instrumental role in organizing the extraordinary institutional collection of that pioneering nonprofit institution. Prior to emigrating to the U.S., Jane had worked in the Russian Archives in Moscow and worked as an automation consultant. She recently served on the Program Committee of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference for the Spring 2000 meeting. 

Jenny Gotwals works as a visual materials archivist at the New-York Historical Society. Jenny has worked mainly with photography collections, although she has also processed several collections of print ephemera, including playing cards. Beyond processing and preserving collections, she marks up the resulting finding aids in EAD and is working toward producing a searchable, item-level collections database for the Department of Print, Photograph, and Architectural Collections. 

Ann H. Greenberg retired in 1997 as Assistant Chancellor for Academic Development at New York University, and has been spending a considerable amount of time working in NYU's Archives and organizing various administrative papers. 

Cathy Moran Hajo is Assistant Editor and Assistant Director of the Margaret Sanger Papers Project at NYU, which is currently publishing a four-volume book edition of selected documents.  She has presented papers on editing at the annual meetings of the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) in 1996 and 1997 and the American Association of History and Computing in 2001. Cathy is chair of the ADE’s Committee on Electronic Standards, which is working to develop guidelines for the presentation of historical documents on the World Wide Web.  Cathy is currently writing her dissertation, a comparative study of birth control clinics in the U.S. and England from 1916-1939, and presented a paper on that work at the American Association for the History of Medicine in 2000. She recently won travel grants from NYU and the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.  Cathy also serves as the webmaster for NYU's History Department and for the Margaret Sanger Papers Project.

Melissa Haley, who completed her M.A. at NYU's Gallatin School in December 1997 with a concentration on twentieth century American history, now serves as the Assistant Archivist at Trinity Church in New York City. Shortly before completing her Archival Management Certificate in December 2000, she was hired as a Manuscript Archivist on the Mellon-funded project at The New-York Historical Society. This position involves processing a variety of eighteenth and nineteenth century manuscript collections, and marking up finding aids in Extensible Mark-Up Language (XML). From 1998-2000, she worked at providing reference services in the Manuscript Department at the N-YHS. She also completed an internship at New York City 's Department of Records and Information Services. In 2000, she helped curate an exhibit of letters and diaries from American wars at N-YHS.

Andrew W. Hartman, who received his M.A. in History with a Certificate in Archival Management from NYU in 1981, joined Cushman & Wakefield in January 1996 as Manager, Corporate Records with responsibility for C&W's nationwide records management program. His initial focus was developing an industry-leading records center operation at C&W's World Headquarters, including policies and procedures manuals, records retention schedules, and an automated central file operation that incorporated bar-coding, color-coding, and a sophisticated electronic database and tracking system. He is now implementing C&W's Records Management Program nationwide, and working with C&W's Asset Services' Facilities Management Group in designing Records Management programs for C&W clients. Andrew joined C&W from Sterling Winthrop, where he was Corporate Records Manager for twelve years. While at Sterling Winthrop, Andrew designed the Fortune 500 pharmaceutical firm's first comprehensive Records Management Program, including an off-site archives program, records retention schedules, policies and procedures manuals, staff training programs, and an information protection program. Prior to joining Sterling Winthrop, Andrew was a project leader for Informaco, Inc., an information management consulting firm. During Andrew's seventeen years in the records management industry, his programs have reduced storage, litigation, and labor costs for his employers and clients. 

Barbara Haws has, since 1984, been serving as Archivist/Historian for the New York Philharmonic, America's oldest symphony orchestra. As past president of the New York Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York (1988-1991), Barbara founded the successful New York Archives Week celebration, which continues to attract widespread attention. Since graduating from the NYU program in 1983, she has emerged as a leader in the profession, lecturing and presenting papers at national meetings of the Society of American Archivists and the American Symphony Orchestra League. She has also consulted with a number of organizations, ranging from the Jackie Robinson Foundation to the Leonard Bernstein Collection, to the Dobbs Ferry Historical Society. Most recently Barbara has been very active in preparing a special edition 10-CD set of "Historic Broadcasts" of the New York Philharmonic, which includes over twelve hours of digitally remastered recordings spanning 64 years. 

Laura Helton, who received her M.A. in History and Certificate in Archival Management from NYU in 2004, is now the Field Archivist for the Mississippi Digital Library Program. Her project, which is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), involves a cooperative endeavor between the University of Southern Mississippi, Delta State University, the University of Mississippi, Tougaloo College, Jackson State University, and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Its focus is on primary sources associated with the civil rights era, and the participants will create a union database of electronic finding aids in order to provide comprehensive intellectual control for Mississippi’s rich civil rights materials. The work plan also involves digitizing selected materials from partner repositories in order to create a globally accessible digital archive. Laura is working with repository leaders at each site in order to survey civil rights era collections, establish shared standards, create EAD records, and select materials for digitization. 

Andrea Jackson, 2003 graduate of the Master of Arts degree in History and Advanced Certificate in Archival Management and Historical Editing, was appointed Curator of Archives and Manuscripts at the Robert W. Woodruff Library in 2005.  The Library serves the Atlanta UniversityCenter schools, including Spelman, Morehouse, Clark, Atlanta, and the Interdenominational Theological Center.  Prior to joining the Center, Andrea had worked as a project archivist at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.  Under the terms of an NHPRC grant, she processed five collections at Fisk, including additions to the Jubilee Singers and Charles Johnson Collections, as well as the Spence Family Collection.  While attending NYU, Andrea served as a graduate assistant in the New York University Archives.  She also interned at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL), the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Moorland-Springarn Research Center at Howard University.

Joseph Komljenovich, a 1996 graduate of the program, is currently Archivist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, having been promoted to this position in May of 2005.  As head of the Archives program, located within the Records Management Function, he is responsible for participating in the development of retention schedules, the identification and appraisal of records deemed permanent, digitization of such records, microform operations, and oversight of all Records Management reference services.  He also serves as a consultant to the Federal Reserve System’s Records Management Forum and participates in system-wide archival committees.  Joe is also the current president of the Archivists Round Table (2004-2006), project director for the Round Table’s Documentary Heritage Program (DHP) grand fromNew YorkState to create a registry of 9/11-related records, and chair of the Metropolitan Library Council’s DHP Advisory Committee.  Most recently, he has participated in meetings of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) as member of the program committee and chair of a session on copyright.  He expects to complete an MSLIS from the Pratt Institute in Fall 2007.

Maria Praetzellis LaCalle, who graduated with an M.A. in U.S. History with a Certificate in Archival Management in May of 2005, has accepted a position as the archivist for Rolling Stone magazine.  Prior to graduating, Maria worked at the Tamiment Library and Wagner Labor Archives, the Margaret Sanger Papers Project, and on Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online Project.  Maria can be reached at:  azriel0626@yahoo.com.

Christopher M. Laico received his Certificate in Archival Management from NYU in January 2001. Since late August 2000, Chris has worked at the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library, Columbia University Law School , initially as the project archivist on the Telford Taylor Papers Project and as the appointed library archivist since February 2002. Chris received his BA with honors in International Relations and German from Drew University and completed his master's degree at Georgetown University , School of Foreign Service , Center for German and European Studies. Besides his archival work, Chris is engaged in several personal writing and photographic projects. His e-mail address is: claico@law.columbia.edu.

James Leach recently completed his archival management requirements at NYU, and is continuing work on his Ph.D. In addition, he recently curated an exhibit at St. Vincent 's Medical Center in Greenwich Village , as part of the 150th anniversary celebration there. Leach has also begun organizing the archives at St. Vincent 's, and is in the process of relocating to Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania . 

Gwynneth Malin received an M.A. in History and a Certificate in Archival Management and Historical Editing from NYU in May 2004. While in the program, she processed the 2001 accretion to the Judson Memorial Church Archive during her internship at the Fales Library and Special Collections at NYU. Her article, "Digitize This: The Impact of Digital Collections on Archival Description" appeared in The Journal of Archival Organization in November 2003. She currently works as an administrator at NYU and she is a doctoral student in American History at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Renee D. Mastrocco, a 1991 graduate of the archival management program, is Senior and Campus Archivist for The Rockefeller University. Renee manages the operation of the campus office and coordinates activities with the Rockefeller Archives Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York (a division of the Rockefeller University). Renee can be reached at The Rockefeller University at (212) 327-8912, or via e-mail at: mastroc@rockefeller.edu.

Teresa Mora, who received her M.A. and Archival Certificate from NYU in 1999, began work as the NAACP Project Archivist at the Bancroft Library (University of California at Berkeley ) in April 2003. Her project is part of a two-year grant funded by the NHPRC to arrange, describe, and make available the records of the NAACP, West Coast Branch. Prior to moving to the left coast, Teresa has been working as Assistant Archivist at the American Civil Liberties Union in New York City. She also worked full-time for one year on an NHPRC-funded arrangement and description project for the Brooklyn Historical Society. Teresa received the Harold T. Pinkett Minority Student Award, a national competition sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, in order to attend the SAA meeting in Pittsburgh in August 1999. While completing her NYU degree, Teresa also curated an exhibit at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, an important lower East Side institution that is in the process of celebrating its 200th Anniversary. 

Jim Moske, who graduated from the NYU program in May of 1992, is Archivist at the New York Public Library. He was formerly a Manuscript Specialist at NYPL, and has also worked for the University of Michigan Libraries and the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, CUNY.

Jeffrey V. Moy, who completed his Certificate in Archival Management in Spring 2005, has served as The Newark Museum’s Archivist since 2001.  Jeff initially had been hired by the museum in order to implement a formal archival and records management program.  During his tenure, Jeff has overseen numerous grand-funded projects to process the organization’s 100-year records backlog.  He has recently been making good use of his NYU courses on Encoded Archival Description (EAD) by marking up the finding aids to previously processed collections, and his work can be viewed at the following URL: http://www.newarkmuseum.org/archive.  In addition to his regular responsibilities, Jeff is active with the New Jersey Digital Highwar Project (http://njdigitalhighway.org), has spoken on museum archives at the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums conference, and has served on the program committee for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference.  He currently lives in Bloomfield ,NJ.

Stephen E. Novak serves as head of Archives and Special Collections at the A.C. Long Health Library, Columbia University. He also recently completed a term as president of the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York for the 1997-1998 year, and remains active in a variety of other professional organizations as well, including the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) and the Society of American Archivists. Prior to joining Columbia, Steve worked in a variety of archival positions at the Juilliard School, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, the New-York Historical Society, and Seton Hall University.  

Maneesha Patel completed her Certificate in Archival Management in December 2004 and currently works as a photo project archivist at New YorkUniversity’s Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.  The project is an NHPRC-funded effort to process the collections of five New York City labor photographers:  Sam Reiss, Daniel Nilva, Charles Rivers, John Albok, and Dan Miller.  The nearly 350,000 photographic negatives in the collections document the changing nature of labor and leftist movements in New York City from the late 1920s through the 1990s.  Maneesha also holds a Ph.D. in Italian Studies fromColumbia University, where she focused on 17^th century literary theory.

Wendy Scheir, who graduated from the program in 2005, has been appointed Assistant Archivist for the September 11 Memory Program at the American Red Cross.  The position involves working with the Oral History program, photographic collection, outreach program, and digital products development.

Catherine O’Sullivan is the Assistant Archivist of the American Civil Liberties Union. Prior to her appointment at the ACLU, she worked as an archivist for the National Archives and Records Administration’s northeast facility in New York City and as a consultant to Glenn Horowitz, international rare book, manuscript and archives dealer. Catherine has also edited texts for the Gilder Lehrman Collection, currently on deposit at the New-York Historical Society, created EAD finding aids for the New York University Archives, and processed the George Gray Barnard and James J. Rorimer collections for The Cloisters Museum. She is the 2004 recipient of the Society of American Archivist’s Theodore Calvin Pease Award for her paper “Diaries, Online Diaries, and the Future Loss to Archives; or, Blogs and the Blogging Bloggers who Blog them.” Catherine holds an M.Phil. and M.Litt. in medieval history from the University of Dublin , Trinity College . Her second master’s thesis, Hospitality in Medieval Ireland, was published by Four Courts Press in March 2004. She is a member of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC), the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, and the Ephemera Society of America. 

Mae Pan is now the Archivist/Special Collections Librarian at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Mae also had worked at the American Civil Liberities Union Archives, as well as the University Archives and Columbiana Library on Morningside Heights. At Columbia, she processed a collection of approximately 25,000 photographs through a grant from the NHPRC. She also digitized selections from the collection, and worked on a guide and database in order to enhance access to the photograph collection. Mae completed the Archival Management Program at NYU in 1999, after earning an M.A. in History from Temple University. Prior to joining Columbia, she worked on an NHPRC-funded arrangement and description project at the Brooklyn Historical Society, where she helped to create and mark up finding aids for five significant collections. The results of that project can be viewed at http://www.brooklynhistory.org. Mae has also worked as Assistant Archivist at The New York Times and at Archive Photos in New York City.  

Laura Peimer is now working as an Archivist at the Brooklyn Museum, after helping to coordinate the recent move of the American Jewish Historical Society from Brandeis University to the Center for Jewish History in New York City. Prior to joining the Jewish Historical Society, Laura has been working with The Winthrop Group in New York City. She received her archival certificate and M.A. from NYU in 1996. Laura's article, " Alice's Identity Crisis: A Critical Look at the Alice Austen House Museum ," appeared in the Summer 2000 issue of History of Photography.  

John-Paul (Jay) Richiuso relocated to Nashville in August of 1992, and since that time has been employed by the Tennessee State Library and Archives. He currently serves as Senior Archivist (Archivist III) of the Archives and Manuscripts Unit, and Co-Director of the Technical Services Section.

Madeline Rogers continues to be Director of Publications for the South Street Seaport Museum, where she edits Seaport Magazine and has taken on the task of webmaster for the organization. Visit her site at: SouthStSeaport.org. Madeline also spends some time doing freelance writing and editing. Recent clients include: the Grand Central Partnership, the New York Philharmonic; and the Municipal Art Society. 

Kathleen (Saraceni) Sabogal, who graduated from the program in 1992, is currently the Associate Archivist and Records Manager at Carnegie Hall. In addition to her archival work, Kathleen also works on exhibits in the Rose Museum at Carnegie Hall. You can visit Carnegie Hall’s website at http://www.carnegiehall.org/jsps/intro.jsp. In 2002 she was elected to a two-year term as Membership & Nominating Coordinator of the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York.

Katie Senft graduated from the archival management program in May 2002. While a student, she served as a graduate assistant in the NYU archives and interned at the Archives of American Art. After graduating, Katie remained at the NYU Archives, working as a project archivist. In her position, she processes the congressional papers of John Brademas, who served in the House of Representatives from 1959 to 1981 before becoming President of NYU in 1981. 

Dan Sokolow, who graduated from the program in 1996, became Archives Coordinator of the David Taylor Archives of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in November 2000, after 2 1/2 years with The McGraw-Hill Companies, where he was Corporate Archivist. Dan is now responsible for archival materials for the eighteen-hospital Health System, including the two main collections of North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He continues to serve as webmaster for the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York (NYART) and helped to develop NYART's Web-based exhibit on the history of technology and New York City. Personally, Dan and his wife Jennifer are proud parents of Melanie Rose, born December 31, 2000 , providing them much joy and a significant tax break. You can e-mail Dan at dsokolow@nshs.edu.

David Solomon has been active in a variety of areas since completing archival coursework at NYU. He had selected the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) as one of his required practicum assignments for the introductory archives course, and this experience led him to become a trustee and treasurer of the Society. In July 2004, he began serving as acting executive director of the institution on an interim basis, as the Society began searching for a new chief executive. David also heads the archives committee at Congregation Rodeph Sholom, which was founded in 1842, and he is continuing his academic studies as a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at NYU. Over the course of the past year, one source of personal satisfaction has been the successful completion of Phase I of a large-scale digitization project that he directed for the AJHS. As a result of David’s efforts, the Society’s journal is now available on-line, and can be found at the ADAJE link at the top right of the AJHS’s homepage at http://www.ajhs.org.

Geri Solomon, a 1987 graduate of the program, is now the Assistant Dean of Special Collections/University Archivist at Hofstra University , which includes responsibility for the University Archives, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and Long Island Studies collections. She recently co-founded a new archival organization on Long Island, known as the Long Island Archives Roundtable -- so, if you'd like to speak on an archival topic, or show off your site, please call her at: (516) 463-6407, or e-mail her at: Geri.Solomon@hofstra.edu.

Douglas Stark has been appointed as Librarian of the United States Golf Association Museum in Far Hills, New Jersey in February 2002. Prior to joining the USGA, Doug worked at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts where he helped to plan a major facilities expansion, and managed to bring the Museum's fascinating basketball history collection under archival control. Doug has worked on a number of fascinating projects in Springfield, and has published numerous articles in both sports and academic periodicals. In Winter/Spring 2001, he coordinated a major exhibition, "Freedom to Play: The Life and Times of Basketball's African-American Pioneers," which highlighted the history of racial integration in both the National Basketball League in the early 1940s and the National Basketball Association. Since receiving his M.A. and Certificate from the archival program in 1996, Doug has worked on numerous archival projects at New York area institutions, including the Whitney Museum, Jewish Daily Forward, and Bronx Historical Society.

Amy Surak was appointed Archivist at Manhattan College in 2002. She is responsible for administering the records of the College, as well as developing policies and procedures for the Christian Brothers provincial archives, which is also located at Manhattan. The college archives is moving into a new facility in 2002, as part of a broader library expansion, and she is coordinating that relocation as well. Amy, who received her M.A. in History, Certificate in Archival Management, and Certificate in Museum Studies from NYU in May 2000, had been working as archivist at Covenant House in New York City prior to her appointment at Manhattan. She initiated the archival program at Covenant House, developed an oral history program to record reminiscences of top administrators and volunteers, and participated in the writing of Covenant House’s institutional history. During her graduate program at NYU, Amy interned at the Jim Henson Archives and the New-York Historical Society.  She remains professionally active and most recently served as secretary of the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York.

Cynthia Swank, CA, CRM continues as a partner in Inlook Group, providing records, archives, and collections management consulting services to businesses, government agencies, colleges and universities, and non-profit organizations. Inlook is based in Portsmouth , New Hampshire , about fifty miles north of Boston , but in the past year the company has worked on projects somewhat farther afield. Cynthia and her colleagues consulted with the Nevada State Historical Records Advisory Board for the development and writing of Preserving Nevada's Documentary Heritage, 1997-2005: A Strategic Plan; worked with the American Society for Microbiology in DC to create a retention schedule and implementation mechanism to ensure that its archival records were transferred in a timely manner to its Archives housed at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and helped the archivist at Mutual Assurance Company in Philadelphia to determine which current records had archival value and would be donated to a manuscript repository by the newly merged company, headquartered in New Hampshire, either immediately or when they became inactive. Right now, closer to home, Inlook is providing space, preservation, and strategic planning advice to the Bedford, Massachusetts Office of Town Clerk, and is working on a start-up archives project with a distinctly entrepreneurial bent for Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, New Hampshire. Cynthia is scheduled to speak at the Boston chapter of the American Records Management Association (ARMA) about organizational culture and its role in the creation, use, and survival of records. But, she assures us, archives is not being neglected: her partner is president of the New Hampshire Archives Group, chair of the trustees of a local public library, and a board member and chair of the education committee of a local museum that includes among its collections two drafts of the U.S. Constitution and the Dunlap broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence. Cynthia's e-mail address is: inlook@nh.ultranet.com.

Debra Tadevich has established Tadevich & Associates, a company comprised of a team of researchers, writers, and archivists that specializes in the insurance industry. They are currently working on projects for a Fortune 1000 company, as well as preparing a monthly text and graphic layout for an industry magazine. In the last two years, Debra's firm has been responsible for writing the script for a company video; writing, researching and conducting photo research for a centennial book; writing articles for in-house publications; writing a summary of one company's history for the U.S. Congress; and setting up a state-of-the-art corporate archives.  For more information, log on to their website at Tadevich.com.

Craig Tuttle is now serving as University Archivist and Assistant Head of Special Collections at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. In addition, the second edition of his book, An Ounce of Preservation: A Guide to the Care of Papers and Photographs, will be published in early 2001, along with a second book, A Guide to the Care of Audio and Video Recordings, by Rainbow Books, Inc. Most recently, he became a spokesperson for the 3M Company's line of archival products. 

Steve Urgola, who completed the M.A. in History with the Certificate in Archival Management in May 1998, began an exciting new position as University Archivist in the Rare Book and Special Collections Library at the American University in Cairo in August 2001. He has adjusted well to life in Cairo, and has been writing fascinating accounts of his introduction into a new archival world. Prior to joining the American University, he had worked as Assistant Archivist in the University Archives and Columbiana Collection at Columbia University. Steve began his archival career in Worcester MA, as Project Archivist for the Society of Jesus, New England Province. Based at Holy Cross College and working closely with the Provincial Archivist, Steve processed and described an extraordinarily rich collection of Jesuit materials. After one year with the Jesuits, Steve was named a National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) fellow. Under the terms of his fellowship, he spent fifteen months at Duke University, working on an archival administration project for the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. 

Steve Walker, a 1987 graduate of the program, serves as State Archivist for the State of Idaho. The Idaho State Archives is part of the Idaho State Historical Society and its 1947 enabling legislation established a unified state archives "to preserve and protect the historically important state, county, city, and village archives, and thus facilitate the use of Idaho records for official reference and historical research." Idaho created the State Archivist position in 1989 and currently the archives are located in several buildings in Boise, the state capital. A State Archives building is under construction and is expected to be completed in the Spring of 1998, and Steve is currently involved in inventorying and rehousing much of the collection in preparation for the move to the new building. Also, this past August, Steve was recertified as a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. He can be reached at: sawalker@micron.net.

Jessica Weglein is serving as Records Manager for Hadassah, where she is currently managing the implementation of an electronic records management project.  She previously served as the Project Archivist for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Collections at the Tamiment-Wagner Labor Archives.  This NEH-funded project called for the processing of over 200 manuscript, photographic, audio-visual, and ephemera collections documenting American participation in the Spanish Civil War.  Jessica received her M.A. in History and Certificate in Archival Management in 2002.  She was the Program Chair for the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York from 2003-2005 and currently serves on the Documentary Heritage Program Advisory Council.

Larry Weimer graduated from NYU in the Spring of 2005 with an M.A. in History and an Advanced Certificate in Archival Management and Historical Editing.  Larry also holds a B.A. in Economics and Accounting from Rutgers University.  Larry’s seminar research interests emphasized African-American history, particularly in the period 1880-1945.  Archival management is a second career for Larry, who brings to the profession a wide diversity of experience, including records management, project management, personnel supervision, budgeting, and policy/procedure development, all of which were acquired through his responsibilities at Prudential Financial.  Larry completed his archival internship at the New-York Historical Society, where he processed the papers of an early twentieth century monumental sculptor and the papers of two mid-nineteenth century attorneys.  In January 2006, Larry joined the Rutgers University Libraries in the Special Collections and University Archives department in New Brunswick,New Jersey.  He is the Archivist for the two-year, grant-funded position responsible for appraising, arranging, and describing the papers of former United States Senator Harrison A. Williams.

Dorothy Wick, who returned to New York City in September 1996 after spending two and a half years in the midwest, is now involved in a project cataloguing digital images at the New York Public Library for the Afro-American 19th Century Women Writers Project.

Jill Vetter left New York City for Minneapolis in 1994 to start an archival program for the Walker Art Center under a two-year grant from the Lilia Wallace Reader's Digest Fund. In 1996, her position became permanent when the Board of Directors of the Walker Art Center agreed to make the archives a permanent department. In 1997, Jill received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant which, among other good things, allowed her to hire another staff member. Much of her time is spent helping curators with research for upcoming exhibitions. The goal of the Walker Art Center is eventually to have an interactive library/archives for museum guests and virtual visitors. Jill describes the Walker Art Center as a "very exciting place to work" and she loves being in Minneapolis.

Trina Yeckley, has been working as the Archivist for the Archives of American Art, at the Smithsonian Institution's New York City facility since the Fall of 2000. Trina graduated from the program in May 1998, and had been working as University Archivist and Ozark Labor Archivist at Southwest Missouri State University, before accepting this new position at the Smithsonian. She began work as Project Archivist for the Ozark Labor Union Archives at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield MO in September of 1998 and SMSU eventually created a full-time position after successful completion of the grant. The Ozarks Labor Union Archives is Missouri's leading repository of records, documenting over 125 years of labor union history in the Ozarks. Over 1300 linear feet of material in the collections documents important activities ranging from cigar makers and electricians to communication and railroad workers in the region.

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