Authors

Claire Danna is a first-year Master's student at the University of Michigan - School of Information focusing on library science and archival preservation. She has a Bachelor's degree in English Literature from the University of California - Berkeley, where she was awarded the Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize in Undergraduate Research for her work in the archives studying female printers. She now works as the Joyce Bonk Fellow at the William L. Clements Library helping digitize various collections. Within this project, she collected and described items pertaining to the Pacific-West region, helped write the project description, and crafted the design of the archive, including collection forms, logo, theme, and page layout. 

Meghan Berry is a first year MSI student at the University of Michigan focusing on digital curation.  Prior to graduate school she worked as a farmer and sustainable food systems organizer.  On this project she collected and described materials for the Northeast and Alaska/Non-Contiguous regions, contributed to the project description, and provided additional support for building and editing the archive site.

Katie Kasperian is a second year PhD student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. She focuses on museums, memory and nationalism in former Yugoslav states and the Soviet Union. Although outside the realm of her study, her interest in archives started when working on her senior thesis at the University of Chicago, and contributes to her passion for memory studies.  Within this project, she collected and described materials for the Intermountain Region and on Jean Pinkley, as well as contributed to the project description.

Laura Petersen is a first-year student at the University of Michigan School of Information. She is pursuing a Master of Science in Information focusing on archives and digital preservation. Laura graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, with a BS in Secondary Education, History, and Classics. She worked as a Latin teacher in Sandusky, Ohio, for three years until her work as assistant director of Project Nota drew her into the information studies field. Project Nota is a grass-roots project dedicated to preserving and promoting the use of Latin texts written by women through digitization, translation, and outreach. Laura is continuing this work while in school as well as working in reference and guest services at the University of Michigan Library as an Ask a Librarian Assistant. For Women in National Parks, Laura collected and described images for the Midwest and Southeast pages, content and formatting for the homepage, contributed to the project description, and created the pages for Anne Davis and Emily Ford.