WorKSHOP 2: Introduction to UArizona's Archives

Rachael Black is a Librarian and Archivist at the Arizona Historical Society's Arizona History Museum in Tucson. Prior to landing at the Historical Society, she worked in a variety of different institutions, from public libraries to state archives, and on a variety of projects, including creating interactive maps of the University of Washington's botanical gardens, and working with geoscience researchers to foster better interdisciplinary communication. While she enjoys her work in the archives, her real passions are playing with her dogs, and foraging for grapefruits on the University of Arizona campus.

Dr. Peter Brewer has been the Curator of Collections in the University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR) since 2018. The LTRR collection is the world's largest and most diverse collection dedicated to tree-ring research. Through his interdisciplinary background in plant sciences, archaeology, and informatics, he has led the development of data management tools, software platforms and data standards that are now used by tree-ring researchers across the globe.

Lisa E. Duncan is the Collections Management Archivist and Instruction Coordinator at the University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections. She has a MA in Information Resources and Library Science and BA in Anthropology and History from the University of Arizona. She is also a Certified Archivist and holds a Digital Archives Specialist certificate from the Society of American Archivists.

Mary Feeney is the News Research Librarian and Liaison Librarian for Gender & Women’s Studies, History, Journalism, and Sociology at the University of Arizona Libraries, where she partners with faculty and students in their research, teaching, and learning.

Stephen Hall is a two-time (soon to be three-time) UA alumnus. Since 2014, he has worked at the History of Pharmacy Museum, first as Assistant Curator and then as Curator. He plays all manner of nerdy board games and is currently writing a book about the Upjohn Pharmacy in Disneyland.

Dr. Jamie A. Lee is Assistant Professor of Digital Culture, Information, and Society in the School of Information at the University of Arizona, where their research and teaching attend to critical archival theory and methodologies, multimodal media-making contexts, storytelling, and bodies. They are an Institute of Museum and Library Services Early Career Grantee and Faculty Fellow of the Agnese Nelms Haury Program for Environment and Social Justice. Their research monograph, Producing the Archival Body (2021), was recently published through Routledge and their new Studies in Archives series. [www.thestorytellinglab.io]

Alexis Peregoy (she/her) has been an associate archivist at the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography for five years. She is responsible for the stewardship of and access to 285 archival collections related to the history and practice of photography. Alexis holds a Master of Science in Information, where she focused on archives and preservation, an MA in Museum Studies, and a BA in Art History. She is also pursuing a Master of Legal Studies degree from the University of Arizona Law program, with an interest in information privacy, intellectual property, and cultural property law.

In the role of the Research Data Management Specialist in the Office of Digital Innovation and Stewardship (ODIS), Dr. Fernando Rios focuses on supporting academic research in the areas of data management planning, research workflows, reproducibility, data and software curation, archiving and sharing, and open science. Additionally, he is responsible for managing the University of Arizona Research Data Repository (ReDATA). His research interests have recently revolved around software archiving and preservation in the context of research reproducibility and reuse. He has also been active in software development in academia and in industry where he has worked on projects in the areas of geographic information systems, groundwater modeling, and incident management.

Amy Roberts is the curator and archivist for the Fred Fox School of Music. She received her bachelor’s degree in music and anthropology from Hunter College and her master’s degree in library science with an archives certificate from Queens College of the City University of New York. Prior to the University of Arizona, she was an archivist at Brooklyn College and a music librarian and technical assistant at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. She has collaborated with community organizations and social movements documenting their history at the Interference Archive. She has spoken at conferences in the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Australia concerning the intersection of art, social movements, and archives.

Molly Stothert-Maurer is Associate Librarian (Archivist) and Head of the Library and Archives at the Arizona State Museum. Molly was most recently Archivist & History of Science Curator at University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections where she worked closely with the collections documenting the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. Previously she served as Archivist at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts. She holds a MA degree in Information Resources and Library Science from the University of Arizona and a BFA in Studio Art from Texas State University.