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, Associate Professor and director of the MIM program at the Maryland iSchool, and Robert Leopold,…
Category: research
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 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.…
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 of the leprosarium founded on Culion by the U.S. and later continued by the Philippine…