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I am a PhD. student at University of British Columbia’s iSchool, the Archivist-Historian for the Haslam Collection on Polyamory part of the American Psychological Association’s Division 44 Committee on Consensual Nonmonogamy. I also run the history of sexuality project HistSex.org and contribute to theHomosaurus, an international linked data vocabulary for queer terminology.
In the past, I’ve worked at the Kinsey Institute Library & Special Collections where I revised Sexual Nomenclature, A Thesaurus, and as a research/project assistant with Dr. Marika Cifor and Dr. Robert D. Montoya on a project called Classifying, Documenting, and Preserving Human Sexuality at the Kinsey Institute. For a time, I was also the host of The AskHistorians Podcast.
I am currently especially interested in equitable cataloging in GLAMS (Galleries, Archives, Libraries, Museums, & Special Collections), linked data vocabularies, histories of sexuality, knowledge organization, and archival studies.
PhD. in Library, Archival and Information Studies
The University of British Columbia
MLIS, Archives & Digital Humanities, 2020
Indiana University Bloomington
MA, History and Culture, 2013
Drew University
BA, English & History, 2011
Keene State College
Current
2019-20
American Library Association
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) ; Deferred to 2021.
Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians Diversity Scholarship.
$2000 Conference Travel Award
Indiana University Bloomington
ArchivesUnleashed & Columbia University Libraries
Kinsey Institute
Indiana University Bloomington
a book history-focused paper that examines the underexamined Haldemann-Julius company and their sexological publications.
The goal of this article is to ‘bring’ reddit and its user communities into porn and information studies and to argue that its unique features offer insights and has implications for both fields. After an explanation of reddit, this paper extends the work of Keilty and Leazer, into a different erotic community: reddit’s /r/NSFW411. I argue the categories used on ‘traditional' pornographic ‘tube’ sites are potentially oppressive and limiting, and examine various aspects of an individually-created naïve pornographic taxonomy with folksonomic elements. Finally, I demonstrate how the interplay between reddit, NSFW411, and this system identifies ‘gaps’ between erotic representation and users’ desires, thereby encouraging the creation of a new erotic communities. While unending proliferation and chaotic tagging is often identified as a weakness of folksonomies, I conclude that in this case, it is a strength, as reddit’s ease of community-creation allows self-definition and community to marginalized sexual identities.
Throughout human history—if undergraduates and the History Channel are to be believed—there have been dramatic events which create a distinct before and after; the world is utterly changed. Of course, the work of historians is to place all sorts of cautions, explanations, and contextualizations on these moments, but they remain iconic in the mind of the public. One of these moments took place a half-century ago at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, and has become the stand-in byword for LGBTQ+ history—despite queer history being far older than 1969. After briefly sketching out this history, I will introduce 50 Years On, Many Years Past: Nonfictions.
The 2020 DSGS / WCS joint section meeting will feature speakers discussing stories of women and the LGBTQIA+ community from collections that are not traditionally seen as being LGBTQIA+ or women’s collections. Blake Spitz will share updates and questions from a project interrogating the W.E.B. Du Bois Papers for records of women contributing to his work, and the world, intellectually, culturally, and via invisible labor. Brian M. Watson will present on "50 Years On, Many Years Past: Nonfictions of Sexuality" an open-source, freely-available digital resource, and collection focused on the history of sexuality. Alongside a bibliography, it includes a directory of archives and libraries relevant to LGBTQIA+ research across the world. In addition to the panel DSGS and WCS leadership will facilitate discussions on new section business and call for announcements from section members regarding recent projects, initiatives, concerns, etc. that are relevant to our communities.
Paper, photo, born-digital.
Omeka, Mukurtu, Scalar, ArchivesSpace
Proficient
SKOS; RDF; OWL
Dublin Core, EAD, MODS, MARC, etc.
reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Canva, Wordpress)
90%
100%
10%
Classic & Semantic
Google Documents, Prezi, etc.
Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas
Creative Cloud, Acrobat, InDesign
Server & Desktop
Expert
Proficient
Basic
Basic to Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Basic
Reading
2011-18
Current and Past
Taught American History, Essay Writing, and Democracy to freshman, sophomores, and juniors.
Used class and internet participation, outside engagement in teaching 20-30 pupils.
Instructed on a variety of topics, including creative poetry, freshman composition, and literature classes.