I will be speaking at the UMSI Social Justice Series this Friday. My talk, titled “Options for Digital Repatriation: The Case of the Worcester Ethnographic Photographs of Indigenous Philippines,” will explore the possibilities and ethics of digitally repatriating cultural heritage materials. Drawing on my work with early-twentieth-century ethnographic photographs, the talk will explore “virtual reunification”…
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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 Archivaria, the premier Canadian archival journal. The award is given for presenting “new ideas or…
Rackham Centennial Fellowship
I was thrilled to be selected as a recipient for a Rackham Centennial Fellowship to support the completion of my dissertation work! These fellowships were awarded to Rackham students selected from a pool of 750 applicants. The SI communications office published a press release regarding the two School of Information awardees.
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 ongoing research on virtual reunification of the series of ethnographic photographs taken by Dean C.…
Recent Awards
I was honored to receive two recent awards. In August 2009, I received the Oliver Wendell Holmes award from the Society of American Archivists. The award is given annually to an SAA member from outside the U.S. to subvent costs in attending the Society’s annual meeting. Oliver Wendell Holmes was a member of SAA, and…