Graduate Student Poster Presentations

Student posters highlight the research activities of graduate students in archives and records management programs, as well as projects and activities of SAA Student Chapters. Posters will be on display in the Exhibit Hall on Thursday, August 14, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, and on Friday, August 15, from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm. Students will be present to discuss their posters with attendees on Thursday from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm and on Friday from 11:45 am to 12:45 pm.

1. Opening Up Closed Stacks: An Archival Collections Assessment at the New York Society Library
Brynn White, CUNY Queens College

2. Expanding Access: Promoting Primary Sources for Educators at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
Catherine Bell, University of Texas at Austin

3. The Media History Digital Library: a Collaborative Presentation of Public Domain Materials
Laurel Gildersleeve, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

4. Rediscovering the Gold Country: Ensuring Access to Northern California History
Kaitlyn Crain, Monica Downs, and Jason Sarmiento, California State University, Sacramento SAA Student Chapter 

5. Then and Now: Origins of the U.S. World War I Archives and Memorials
Rachel Gifford and Michelle Caldwell, Louisiana State University 

6. EAD Legacy Finding Aid Conversion at the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art
Callie Wiygul, University of Southern Mississippi 

7. Historic Postcards of Virginia: A Collaboration between CUA and the Arlington Public Library's Center for Local History
Sharad J. Shah, The Catholic University of America

8. Missing Oral History Release Forms: Contexts and Responses
David A. Olson, New York University/Palmer School of Library and Information Science

9. Providing Access to Non-Traditional Users: The Digitization of the World War I Photo Collection at the Archives of the American Field Service
Elizabeth Alleva, New York University

10. Seeing the Archive through the Tweets: Three Questions and Eight Considerations for Archiving Twitter
Beth McDonald, University of California, Los Angeles 

11. Thinking Large, Processing Small: Manuscripts Processing at the A.S. Williams III Americana Collection 
Haley Aaron, University of Alabama

12. The Franciscan Monastery Visual Collection: Strengthening User-Community Engagement Through Digital Preservation and Access
Mike Saelee, Steven Salas, and Tara Barnett, The Catholic University of America 

13. Accessing Oral Histories: Mapping the Long Women's Movement with the Digital Innovation Lab and the Southern Oral History Program at UNC-Chapel Hill 
Stephanie Barnwell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

14. ArchivesSpace and the Opportunity for Institutional Change
Stephen Ammidown, University of Maryland, College Park

15. Building Leaders and Archival Programs: Utilizing the University of Tennessee SAA Student Chapter to Build and Support Archival Education 
Krista Oldham, April Akins, and Mark Freeman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville SAA Student Chapter

16. Documenting Modern Living: Digitizing the Miller House and Garden Collection
Amy Auscherman, Indiana University, Bloomington 

17. Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound: Digitizing the Moses and Frances Asch Collection
Nicole Horstman, University of Maryland 

18. Reprocessing: The Trials and Tribulations of Previously Processed Collections
Annalise Berdini, Steven Duckworth, Jessica Hoffman, Alina Josan, Amanda Mita, and Evan Peugh, Drexel University

19. Audio Digitization at the Walker Art Center
Andrea Hoff, St. Catherine University

20. Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions
Nicole Topich, Harvard University

21. Interpreting the Wisconsin Thematic Panels Project
Michelle Dubert-Bellrichard, University of Wisconsin-Madison

22. Digital Preservation in Community Archives: A Project at Interference Archive
Bonnie Gordon, New York University

23. The Oneida Nation Film Preservation Project
Lotus Norton-Wisla, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
Emily Swenson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

24. Archives Revitalized: Collection Management, Preservation, and Digitization at Harrisburg Area Community College (Harrisburg, PA)
Marietta Carr, University of Pittsburgh

25. Wikipedia loves academic archives! Improving Access to College and University Archival Collections through the GLAM-Wiki Initiative
Chloe Raub, The Catholic University of America

26. Leaving Home: Taking a Job Outside Your Comfort Zone
Wendy Cole, Steven Wade, Karen Dafoe, and Victoria Hess, Louisiana State University SAA Student Chapter

27. Project Andvari: Facilitating Access to Disparate Digital Collections of the Medieval Material Culture of Northern Europe through Interdisciplinary Collaboration 
Joseph Koivisto, The Catholic University of America

28. UMD Archives Goes Greek--UMD Greek Life Goes Archival
Kenneth Roussey, University of Maryland College Park

29. Biographer, Professor, Activist: Accessing the Papers of Michael Wreszin
Christoper Arena, Queens College, City University of New York

30. An Exploratory Study that Investigates Whether Copyright Infringement is an Issue in Digitized Graduate Research Found in University Archives
Christina Wyles, University of Arizona

31. City of San Bruno Centennial: Creating an Interactive Local History Timeline
Kathleen O'Connell, University of Texas at Austin

32. Searches in Sinai: The Romain F. Butin 1930 Harvard-CUA Expedition to Serabit-el-Khadim Collection 
J. Michelle Datiles, The Catholic University of America

33. Archives of Repression: The Importance of Survivor Testimony in the Archives
Mary Kate Kwasnik, University of Wisconsin-Madison

34. Society of American ArchivistsUniversity of Texas Student Chapter
Susan Floyd, University of Texas at Austin SAA Student Chapter

35. Action, Cooperation, and Independence: a Survey of Community Archives and History-Making Organizations in the Middle and Western United States
Adrienne Evans, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

36. The Ray Johnson Estate: Archives & Art Historical Narrative
Diana Bowers, Pratt Institute

37. [CANCELED] The Myths of Corsets: How Access to Archival Material Can Separate Fact from Fiction
Carmen Cowick, Queens College, City University of New York 

38. Filling in the Margins: The Use of Queer Theory, Feminist Standpoint Theory, and Critical Race Theory to Build Inclusive Archival Collections
Jen LaBarbera, University of Denver

39. The Intersections of History: Public History Meets The Archives
Melissa Schultz, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire