Professional Experience

University Archivist
St. John’s University, January 2000 - Present

Director of Archives, Records Management, and Special Collections
St. John's University September 2001 - Present

  • Manage the archives, a repository holding 2700 linear feet of university records, manuscript collections, photographs, films, videotapes, books and memorabilia. Provide reference service to students, faculty, administrators, and outside researchers.
  • Supervise staff, student workers, and volunteers. Appraise, accession, arrange and describe records.
  • Perform preservation and digitization projects. Outreach activities (lectures, demonstrations, exhibitions, publications). Collaborate with records manager to carry out records surveys, formulate policies and procedures. Joint projects with Special Collections.
  • Serve on library committees and perform other administrative duties.

Adjunct Professor
Library and Information Science

St. John’s University, 2003
Archives and Manuscripts (graduate course)

Adjunct Professor
Discover New York: The Archaeology of New York City (Freshman core course)
St. John’s University Core Curriculum. 2002

Intern
Special Collections, American Museum of Natural History Library
January 2000 - May 2000
Assisted in assessing procedures, revising and writing a procedural guide. Reference.

Graduate Assistant
St. John’s University Archives
September 1998 - December 1999
Duties included reference work, processing, writing finding aids, preparing inventories of photograph and video collections, scanning photographs, and setting up exhibits.

Intern
New York State Historical Association Library, Cooperstown
July 1999 - August 1999
Arranged, prepared a finding aid, and the MARC record for a manuscript collection
(Ransford Family Papers, 1861-1966).

Adjunct Instructor - Sociology & Anthropology
St. John’s University
1996 - 1997
Ethnic Groups in America, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology of Family and Marriage

Instructor - Anthropology
University of Massachusetts
1991 – 1994
Archaeology and Prehistory, Ice Age Peoples