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Ricky Punzalan is an Associate Professor at at the University of Michigan School of Information. He studies the impact of digitization in archives, virtual reunification, and ethnographic archives.
Category Archives: research
Valuing Our Scans
The UMD and Smithsonian seed grant program aims to solidify and support research collaboration between the two institutions. My spring application to the program was successful, and starting this fall, I will be carrying out collaborative research with Brian Butler, … Continue reading
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Tagged digitization, ethnographic photographs, grants, photographs, visual archives
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Hugh Taylor Award
The article “Fields of Vision,” which I coauthored with Prof. Paul Conway in 2011, received the 2012 Hugh A. Taylor Prize from the Association of Canadian Archivists. The prize is awarded annually to recognize the most significant article published in … Continue reading
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Tagged archivaria, awards, publications, visual archives, visual literacy
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Rackham Centennial Symposium
On Thursday, the Rackham Graduate School will celebrate its centennial with a symposium featuring presentations by graduate students. My research, alongside nearly 200 other students, will be showcased at the event. I will present a research poster based on my … Continue reading
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The Culion Archives
One of my major projects has been the Culion Museum and Archives, a community institution on Culion Island in the Palawan region of the southwest Philippines. In 2005 and 2006, I worked as a consultant to organize and preserve records … Continue reading
