Archives Center Staff

Department Chair and Assistant Chair

DEBORRA A. RICHARDSON, Chair. B. Mus. (1977) Howard University; M.L.S. (1979) University of Maryland. Research specialties: early twentieth-century African American music; Duke Ellington; African American research collections; archives administration; sheet music. E-mail: richardsond@si.edu.

WENDY SHAY, Assistant Chair. B.A. (1976) Indiana University; M.A. (1983) Cooperstown Graduate Programs. Research specialties: moving image archives; film preservation; industrial film. E-mail: shayw@si.edu.

Reference

DAVID E. HABERSTICH, Archivist. B.F.A. (1963) Rochester Institute of Technology; graduate study in art history (1963-1964) Indiana University; M.L.A. (1970) John Hopkins University. Research specialties: history of photographic art and technology; conservation of photographs; history of twentieth-century art; history of photographic social documentation. E-mail: haberstichd@si.edu.

REUBEN M. JACKSON, Archivist. B.A. (1978) Goddard College; M.S.L.S. (1984) University of the District of Columbia. Research specialties: Duke Ellington; American popular music; audiovisual collections. E-mail: jacksonre@si.edu.

KAY PETERSON, Customer Service; BA (1978) Iowa State University. Research Specialties: digital scanning, audio/visual duplication, in-house researcher. E-mail: petersonk@si.edu.

SUSAN B. STRANGE, Archivist. B.A. (1996) George Washington University. Research specialties: domestic life, advertising, and decorative arts. E-mail: stranges@si.edu.

Collections Acquisition

CATHY KEEN, Archivist. B.A. (1978) George Washington University. Research specialties: history of Washington, D.C.; history of technology collections. E-mail: keenc@si.edu.

CRAIG A. ORR, Archivist. B.A. (1980), M.A. (1984) University of Delaware. Research specialties: archives administration; railroad history; military uniforms. E-mail: orrc@si.edu.

Collections Arrangement, Description, Preservation

VANESSA BROUSSARD SIMMONS, Archivist. B.A. (1981) University of Maryland; M.A. (1987) George Washington University. Research specialties: advertising ephemera; preservation administration. E-mail: broussardv@si.edu.

ALISON L. OSWALD, Archivist. B.A. (1989) St. Bonaventure University; M.S. (1992) Ball State University; M.L.S. (1995) State University of New York at Albany. Research specialties: American inventors, and archives and technology. E-mail: oswalda@si.edu. Click here to go to the Lemelson Center.

FRANKLIN ROBINSON, JR., Archives Technician. B.F.A. (1981) The CatholicUniversity of America; M.A. (1988) American University; Research specialties: Performing arts, film, American agriculture, family history and genealogy, Church of England in colonial Maryland. E-mail: robinsonf@si.edu

Special Projects

JOHN A. FLECKNER, Archivist. B.A. (1963) Colgate University; M.A. (1965 and 1970) University of Wisconsin. Research specialties: archives administration. E-mail: flecknerj@si.edu.

Archives Center General E-mail address: archivescenter@si.edu.

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