Visit our Elections page to meet your candidates for the upcoming CMT Section Elections!
Human Rights Archives Section 2019 ELECTION CANDIDATES
The 2019 election for the Human Rights Archives section of the Society of American Archivists has the following candidates running for these positions:
1 incoming co-chair position serving 2 years
4 steering committee member positions ech serving a 1 year term
Ballots will be managed by SAA and distributed in mid-June to all SAA registered members. Results will be announced in mid-July via SAA listservs, the HRA blog, and Twitter social...
Candidates for Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Alexis Antracoli
Biographical Statement:
Alexis Antracoli is Interim Assistant University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton University Library. Previously she worked at Drexel University Libraries and the University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library. She has published on web archiving, inclusive description practices, and the acquisition and preservation of born-digital audiovisual content. Alexis is active in the Society...
The 2019 DSGS / WCS joint section meeting will feature a panel of presenters speaking on recent efforts to provide access to archival materials concerning women and/or the LGBTQIA+ communities.
Gina K. Armstrong will discuss the creation and impact of the Howard Cruse collection and its contribution to reclaiming important space for marginalized communities at the Birmingham-Southern College. Ellen Brooks will present on a recent project to collect oral history interviews with 100 notable women...
The SAA Women's Collections Section is currently seeking nominees for the roles of Vice Co-Chair/Co-Chair Elect!
For the first year of the two-year term, these two elected officers will hold the positions of Vice Co-Chairs. The second year in office, the elected officers will hold the positions of Co-Chairs. Newly elected officers will assume office immediately following the conclusion of the Annual Meeting in August. New officers do not have to attend the annual meeting.
The role of the...
Hello MARSians, it’s staff ride time. This year we will have a private tour of the Texas State Archives. In addition to being the official archive of the state of Texas, TSLAC’s collections contain muster listings, correspondence, battle flags, artifacts and other materials related to Texans serving the Republic, the Confederacy, and the United States during times of war. This tour is limited to 15 individuals, so if you are interested in joining the tour you must RSVP before the event. ...
There are two MARS board positions up for election in 2019: Vice-Chair/Chair Elect and Communications Liaison. Here you can read about the candidates before casting your vote. Thank you to our candidates and to the MARS membership for your continuing participation!
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
Candidate: Eliot Wilczek
Biography Statement
Eliot Wilczek is the Corporate Records and Archives Manager at The MITRE Corporation. MITRE is a not-for-profit company that operates multiple federally funded...
Vacant Position
Chair-Elect: Three-year term - first year Chair-elect, second year as Chair, and third year as immediate past Chair
The main responsibilities of the vacant position are providing leadership & direction for the Security Section. This includes, but is not limited to, planning the annual meeting, holding additional meetings as needed to evaluate activities/direction of the section, sending relevant announcements to the section via the listserv, and updating the section's...
The University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library is seeking to fill the position of the Michigan Historical Collections field archivist, more formally known as the the Johanna Meijer Magoon Principal Archivist, thanks to a wonderful endowment gift that supports the position.
Job posting is available on the University of Michigan Careers website:
http://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/173345/archivist_associate_archivist_assistant_archivist
Candidate Biographies and Statements
Vice Chair/Chair-elect
Michelle Sweetser
Michelle Sweetser is the Head Librarian and University Archivist at the Center for Archival Collections (CAC) at Bowling Green State University (BGSU). Before joining BGSU in 2016, she served as the University Archivist at Marquette University (2004-2016). Sweetser has been involved with the C&U Section since 2011, first serving as the newsletter editor and then managing the newsletter’s transition...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2019 Native American Archives Section election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (two-year term); and
Three Steering Committee members (two-year terms).
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect...
Issues and Advocacy Section 2019 Ballot
Chair (vote for one)
Joanna Black
Biographical Information: My name is Joanna Black, and I have worked in archives for over ten years, beginning with an archives internship at the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives in San Francisco. I hold a BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and an MLIS with a specialization in Archival Studies from UCLA. Currently, I serve as Digital Archivist for the William E. Colby Memorial...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2019 Archival Educators Section election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
One Chair, for a one-year term; and
3 Steering Committee members (two-year terms).
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Chair Candidates
The following candidates...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2019 Government Records Section election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for 2 steering committee members. Following standing tradition, the candidate with the most votes will be asked to serve as Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect.
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot...
This year the Archivists and Archives of Color Seciton is electing three new members into the following leadership roles: Co-Chair/Chair-Elect, Newsletter Editor, and Steering Committee Member focusing on student/early career perspectives. As a note, this year's candidates were not asked for headshots, as an attempt to avoid potential bias.
Co-Chair/Chair-Elect
Name: Tarienne Mitchell
Institution: Archivist, LDS Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
Bio/Statement:
I would like to...
2019: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for the 2019 Description Section election. Please read below for candidate biographies and statements of interest.
You will be voting for:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
One (1) Member-at-Large
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidate
The following candidates are running for the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect position:
Katie Duvall
Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress
Biography:
Katie Duvall has been an Archivist at the Smithsonian...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2019 Diverse Sexuality and Gender Section (DSGS) election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:Co-Chair, for a two-year term.
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for the ballot!
Candidates are listed in alphabetical order.
Anthony Wright de Hernandez Community Collections...
Thank you to all our excellent nominees for the 2019 Records Management Section steering committee election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, who will then serve one year as Chair and one year as Immediate Past Chair; and
Two Steering Committee members (three-year terms).
We will include with the ballot survey questions to enable the section membership to...
Candidates for Co-Chair (2019-2021)
Alison Anderson, MLIS, CA
Senior Processing Archivist; Harvard Property Information Resource Center
Biography and Candidate Statement:
I am currently the Senior Processing Archivist at the Property Information Resource Center (PIRC) in the Harvard Planning Office, where I have worked for the last twelve years. The PIRC is the main repository for Harvard’s building and land records and supports capital-level construction and campus planning at Harvard. As...
Open Positions:
Vice-Chair (1)
Steering Committee (2)
Candidate for Vice-Chair:
Name: Robert Lay
Title: Head of Arrangement and Description
Institution: Richard B. Russell LIbrary for Political Research and Studies
Biography:
Robert Lay is the Head of Arrangement and Description at the Richard B. Russell Library at the University of Georgia. In this role, he oversees archival processing and digital projects and serves as the curator of the Georgia Disability History Archive. Robert holds...
2019 Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2019 Students and New Archival Professionals Section election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a two-year term; and
One Secretary (one-year term)
Three Steering Committee members (one-year terms).
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey...
The Independent Archivist Section Elections will be held in early July 2019. The ballot will be sent to all members of the section through SAA Connect and voting will be conducted via Survey Monkey. Ballots will remain open for two weeks.
Steering Committee Candidate
Rachael Woody
I have been an archivist for more than 10-years with 2-years (and counting) as a consulting archivist. Along the way I've developed a passion for advocacy and specifically, advocating for our value as archivists. As...
Something important to you missing from this newsletter? Send a submission my way and let me know what you would like to see.Please submit newsletter items about archives and human rights (writ broadly) to hilary.h.barlow@gmail.com. These can be recent publications, upcoming events or exhibitions, opportunities and scholarships, or something else entirely as long as it connects to archives and human rights. For the June newsletter, please send you submission by June 24, 2019.
If you are attending any of the above conferences in the coming month, the HRA Section Blog could use your help! It's not as hard as it sounds, and it's a great way to add a publication to your resume. The post can be a simple summary of the issues discussed at a certain session, or you can get a little opinionated and say what you thought was most productive about the session or not as productive. Here are two examples of sessions covered in the past year. If you're interested in covering a...
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (NURFC) continues its Freedom 55 Programming Series this spring as part of its year-long commemoration of the 55th anniversary of Freedom Summer, an integral milestone in the nation’s civil rights history.“Being an institution focused on the continual struggle for human rights, it’s important that we further this discussion and honor all freedom fighters,” says Jacqueline Dace, NURFC deputy director. “Focusing on Freedom 55 not only allows us to...
