Publications

“Archival Diasporas: A Framework for Understanding the Complexities and Challenges of Dispersed Photographic Collections.” American Archivist 77, no. 2 (fall/winter 2014).

“Understanding Virtual Reunification.” Library Quarterly 84, no. 3 (2014): 294—323.

“Invoking ‘Collective Memory’: Mapping the Emergence of a Concept in Archival Science” (coauthored with Trond Jacobsen and Margaret L. Hedstrom). Archival Science 13 (2013).

“Fields of Vision: Toward a New Theory of Visual Literacy for Digitized Archival Photographs” (coauthored with Paul Conway). Archivaria no. 71 (spring 2011). Received the 2012 Hugh A. Taylor Prize!

“‘All the Things We Cannot Articulate’: Colonial Leprosy Archives and Community Commemoration.” In Community Archives: The Shaping of Memory, ed. Jeannette A. Bastian and Ben Alexander. London: Facet, 2009.

“Archives of the New Possession: Spanish Colonial Records and the American Creation of a ‘National’ Archives for the Philippines.” Archival Science 6, no. 3 (2006), 381–392.

“Cultural Diversity and Post-Colonial Realities: Challenges of Archival Training in the Philippines.” Archives and Manuscripts 33, no. 1 (May 2005), 289–293.

“Records as Material Culture: Museum Documentation as Instrument of Representation.” The Journal of Philippine Librarianship 22, nos. 1–2 (2001).

“Virtual Reunification: Bits and Pieces Put Together to Form a Semblance of a Whole.” Research poster presented at the Research Forum of the Society of American Archivists, San Diego, California, August 2012.

“Virtual Reunification: Bits and Pieces Put Together to Form a Semblance of a Whole.” Research poster presented at the Rackham Centennial Symposium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 2012.

“Archival Photographs in the Age of Virtual Reunification: The Colonial Ethnographic Images of Dean C. Worcester.” Presented at expoSItion research fair, University of Michigan School of Information, October 2010. Received People’s Choice Award!

“Economic Impact of Archives on Local Communities” (with Ayoung Yoon and Amber Cushing), based on the NHPRC-funded Archival Metrics project. Research poster at the Society for American Archivists national meeting, Washington, D.C., August 2010.

“Valuing Our Scans: Assessing the Value and Impact of Digitizing Ethnographic Collections for Access.” Paper delivered at Museums and the Web 2014, Baltimore, Maryland.