Speakers

• Richard J. Cox
• Fatma Müge Göçek
• Verne Harris
• Margaret Hedstrom
• Julie Herrada
• Barbara Madison
• Noel Solani
• James Steward
• Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen
• Gudmund Valderhaug
• David A. Wallace
• Frank Wu
• Dylan Yeats

Richard J. Cox

Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Richard J. Cox is Professor in Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences where he is responsible for the archives concentration in the Master's in Library Science degree and the Ph.D. degree, and where he also chairs the Library and Information Science Program and the Doctoral Studies program in Library and Information Science. He has been a member of the Society of American Archivists Council from 1986 through 1989. Dr. Cox also served as Editor of the American Archivist from 1991 through 1995 and Editor of the Records & Information Management Report from 2001 through 2007. He has written extensively on archival and records management topics and has published thirteen books in this area: American Archival Analysis: The Recent Development of the Archival Profession in the United States (1990) -- winner of the Waldo Gifford Leland Award given by the Society of American Archivists; Managing Institutional Archives: Foundational Principles and Practices (1992); The First Generation of Electronic Records Archivists in the United States: A Study in Professionalization (1994); Documenting Localities (1996); Closing an Era: Historical Perspectives on Modern Archives and Records Management (2000); Managing Records as Evidence and Information (2001), winner of the Waldo Gifford Leland Award in 2002; co-editor, Archives & the Public Good: Records and Accountability in Modern Society (2002); Vandals in the Stacks? A Response to Nicholson Baker’s Assault on Libraries (2002); Flowers After the Funeral: Reflections on the Post-9/11 Digital Age (2003); No Innocent Deposits: Forming Archives by Rethinking Appraisal (2004), winner of the Waldo Gifford Leland Award in 2005; Lester J. Cappon and Historical Scholarship in the Golden Age of Archival Theory (2004); Archives and Archivists in the Information Age (2005); Understanding Archives & Manuscripts (2006) with James M. O’Toole; and Ethics, Accountability, and Recordkeeping in a Dangerous World (2006). Dr. Cox was elected a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists in 1989.

Fatma Müge Göçek

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and the Program in Women's Studies, University of Michigan
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/women/faculty/facbio.asp?ID=16 http://www.ur.umich.edu/0304/Apr26_04/07.shtml

Verne Harris

Programme Manager, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Dialogue, Nelson Mandela Foundation, South Africa
Verne Harris is a Programme Manager for the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Dialogue at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and an honorary research associate with the University of the Witwatersrand. He participated in a range of structures which transformed South Africa’s apartheid public records system – amongst others, the African National Congress’s Archives Committee, the Arts and Culture Task Group, the Consultative Forum which drafted the National Archives of South Africa Act, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the South African History Archive. Widely published, he is best known for the books Exploring Archives: An Introduction to Archival Ideas and Practice in South Africa (1997, 2000 and 2004), Refiguring the Archive (2002), A Prisoner in the Garden: Opening Nelson Mandela’s Prison Archive (2005), and Archives and Justice (2007). He is also the author of two novels, both of which were short-listed for South Africa’s M-Net Book Prize.

Margaret Hedstrom

Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
http://www.si.umich.edu/people/faculty-detail.htm?sid=48

Julie Herrada

Senior Associate Librarian and Curator, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan
Julie is Senior Associate Librarian and Curator of the Labadie Collection at the Special Collections Library, University of Michigan (2000 – present), where she collects and manages holdings related to social protest movements. From 1994 - 2000 she served as the Labadie Collection’s Assistant Curator. She holds an M.L.S. with a Certificate in Archival Administration from Wayne State University (1990). She received her B.A. from Wayne State University in 1984. Herrada’s professional affiliations include the American Library Association, the Michigan Archival Association, the Midwest Archives Conference, and the Society of American Archivists (SAA). She currently chairs the SAA’s Acquisitions and Appraisal Section and recently chaired SAA’s Privacy and Confidentiality Roundtable. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Michigan Oral History Association, and of Labor’s International Hall of Fame. Her university activities include the Civil Liberties Board of the Senate Advisory Committee on Academic Affairs. She has published articles in professional journals such as Archival Issues, Collection Building, and RBMS Journal (publication of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the American Library Association), and Serials Review.

Barbara Madison

Michigan-based Native American research and genealogy consultant
Barbara is a past president of the Michigan Genealogical Council and a board member of the Federation of Genealogical Societies and has been a guest speaker for hundreds of programs presented to community groups interested in genealogical research and Michigan Indian Genealogy and history. She has provided training and technical assistance at programs sponsored by the Michigan Commission on Indian Affairs and conducted all day workshops and seminars on the methods and procedures of researching Native Ancestry for several universities, libraries and historical and Native organizations. Since 1992, Barbara has been retained as a consultant with many tribes in Michigan as well as tribes from the east coast to the west coast seeking Federal recognition to train and assist them in preparing their base rolls and family histories.
She has presented many workshops on appropriate and useful methods for conducting interviews in Native communities and interviewing individual tribal members. Many of these workshops also included segments on how to research the genealogy of your Native ancestor, how to research Federal, State & local government records, how to research the history of Tribes and individual tribal members and how to use and prepare the materials located as a result of that research. In addition, she has conducted workshops to train tribal members how to prepare for and conduct tribal interviews as well as how to operate the video and audio equipment required. These sessions also focused on how to elicit information from a particular individual and how then to use that information to build an accurate picture of what may have been going on at any given time within the tribe. The participants each practiced interviewing one another using the audio and visual equipment and offered critiques on other participants.

Noel Solani

Heritage Resources Manager, Nelson Mandela National Museum, South Africa
Noel Solani is a Programmes Senior Manager at the Nelson Mandela Museum responsible for education and heritage programs. Before joining the Nelson Mandela Museum he was a Deputy Director in the Department of Education, Higher Education Branch, Policy and Development Support Directorate. He was also involved in Robben Island Museum's oral history project from 1997 to 2001 as a researcher and acting research coordinator, collecting and managing testimonies of former Robben Island political prisoners. He has published papers and articles that used this material to examine memory and representation and to explore how the Robben Island narratives are incorporated in exhibitions and in oral accounts by the museum and other related institutions.

James Steward

Director, University of Michigan Museum of Art
James Steward has been, since early 1998, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art. He is also Professor in the Department of the History of Art and in the School of Art + Design. He is an experienced museum professional with over 15 years of service to the field, including work as Chief Curator of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum.
He holds the doctorate of philosophy in the History of Art from Trinity College, Oxford University, where he studied with the leading art historian Francis Haskell. He received his undergraduate degree in History, French, and Art History from the University of Virginia, and began his graduate career at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, under the mentorship of Robert Rosenblum.
Professor Steward has edited or authored a number of significant volumes that work at the interdisciplinary borders of the History of Art. He is the sole author of The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830 (Berkeley and Seattle: University of California/University of Washington Press, 1995), and has served as editor of and contributor to major exhibition catalogues including The Collections of the Romanovs: European Art from the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg (London/New York: Merrell Publishers, 2003); When Time Began to Rant & Rage: Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland (London: Merrell Holberton Publishers, 1998); and The Mask of Venice: Masking, Theater, and
Identity in the Art of Tiepolo and His Times (Berkeley and Seattle: University of California/University of Washington Press, 1996). Steward’s research interests include 18th-century European art, architecture, landscape, and visual culture. He is currently writing a volume on the place of the modern-day museum in American public life.
Steward has curated numerous exhibitions, many of which have traveled across the United States and internationally. In addition to the projects above, these include Edvard Munch and His Models 1912-1944 (1992); Gertrude Jekyll: Private Gardens, Vanishing Arts (1993); Garrett Eckbo and the Large Small House (1996); Innocence and Experience in German Expressionist Art (1996); Bernard Maybeck Drawings (1997); and Donald Sultan: The Smoke Rings (2001).
Professor Steward is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. He has been the recipient of exhibition grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (eight times); the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice); the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (twice); the British Council (twice); the Ford Motor Company Fund; the American Ireland Fund; the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation; and the Huntington Library, among others. He received the Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Service from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996. He is a participant in numerous professional societies in the museum field, including the Association of Art Museum Directors, the American Association of Museums, and the Michigan Museums Association, of which was Vice President for four years.
Professor Steward lives with his partner and two dogs in the historic Burns Park neighborhood of Ann Arbor, and enjoys time at his historic 18th-century farm in the Blue Ridge foothills of southern Virginia.

Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen

Director, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute, New York University; Associate Professor, Gallatin School for Individualized Study; Associate Professor, History Department of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, New York University
http://www.nyu.edu/apa/program/faculty/faculty_tchen.htm

Gudmund Valderhaug

Project Manager, Hordaland Regional Archives; Associate Professor, Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Science, Oslo University College, Norway
Gudmund holds a cand. philol. degree in history from the University of Bergen (1983). Upon graduation he took a position as an archivist at the Bergen City Archives. Gudmund moved to the Hordaland Inter-municipal Archives (in Bergen) in 1987, where he became director in 1990. When the Norwegian Archives Library and Museum Authority was established in 2003, Gudmund was appointed director responsible for archives in its strategy department. After four years in Oslo he had got tired of state bureaucracy and the city, so he gave up power and money for love and real archival work. He now lives happily in Bergen with his partner Åsta, working as a project manager at the Hordaland County Archives trying to collect archives from the private sector. Since 2004 he has been teaching archives at the Oslo University College on a part-time basis. Between 1997 and 2003 he was the leader of the Norwegian National Union of Local and Private Archives. During his professional career, Gudmund has done his duty in several archival fields, from arrangement and description to record management programs. The last years his primary field of interest has been archival justice, which he describes as “the right that every individual should have to participate in and have access to the archive, to its creation and its interpretation – to use Derrida’s words”.

David A. Wallace

Lecturer III, School of Information, University of Michigan
http://www.si.umich.edu/people/faculty-detail.htm?sid=112

Frank Wu

Dean and Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School
http://www.law.wayne.edu/faculty/profiles/wu_frank.html

Dylan Yeats

New York University
Dylan Yeats is a doctoral student in US History at NYU. He is an exhibit curator, certified archivist, and author of the visual essay “Yellow Peril: Collecting Xenophobia” published by the A/P/A Institute where he was the first Graduate Assistant in Archives there from 2005-2007. He is interested in the relationship between the economy and culture, and the role of cultural institutions in shaping "common sense" ideologies of race, gender, and empire.