Post date: Aug 20, 2020
Victoria Fernandez is a Dual Master of History and Library Science (MLS/MA) degree candidate at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College. She graduated in May 2018 with a Dual Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Political Science at the Macaulay Honors College at Queens College. Victoria works part-time as the Administrative Coordinator at the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College, where she helps develop and edit exhibition content, instructs student programming, and facilitates a monthly Holocaust survivor support group. Her most current research that was conducted for LBSCI 709 focused on exploring experiences related to vicarious traumatization among archivists, as well as identifying and acknowledging various archival content areas that could potentially be considered traumatic. Some of her other research interests include examining the effects of post-war communist Poland (1945-1980) on collective Holocaust memory and analyzing parallels between the dissolution of civil liberties during the Third Reich and contemporary representations of prejudice and racism in the United States.
As the Social Justice and Civil Rights Archives Fellow for for 2020/21 funded by the Freda S. and J. Chester Johnson Endowment, Victoria will help coordinate and participate in the “Student Help: Lived Experience” project, a collaboration with alumni to document civil rights activities of the early to mid-1960s through oral histories, written submissions, and digital collections.
Kuba Pieczarski is a University of Toronto alumnus and a soon-to-be graduate of Queens College, currently completing his Master of Library and Information Science at Queens College with a Certificate in Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials. Born in Germany, growing up in Toronto and living in New York City since 2016, Kuba is interested in art, music, politics, and history. He is also a musician who has played with several groups in both Toronto and NYC. He currently manages a record store/antique shop in Brooklyn and works part-time as an artist assistant. He recently interned at the Metropolitan Opera Archive and is excited to join the Queens College Special Collections and Archives team.
As an Archives Intern for the fall 2020 semester funded by the Félix V. Matos Rodríguez Internship Fund, Kuba will help create a digital Queens Memory COVID-19 Collection which highlights the experiences of Queens College faculty, staff, students, and alumni during the pandemic.