The Society of American Archivists (SAA) is delighted to present Season 1 of Archives in Context, a podcast highlighting archival literature and technologies, and most importantly, the people behind them. Cosponsored by SAA’s Publications Board and American Archivist Editorial Board, the podcast offers a new medium for exploring the often moving and important work of memory-keeping.
Archivists are continually in conversation. Whether talking in person at conferences, on listservs, through the professional literature, or on social media, these conversations move the profession forward. Each podcast episode offers a commute- or workout-length interview with an archives professional who enriches the field and practice. Hosts Bethany Anderson, Ashley Levine, and Nicole Milano interview authors, storytellers, editors, and a TEDx Talk presenter so that you can hear more conversations from the world of archives. With production coordinated by Colleen McFarland Rademaker, the podcast also includes guest contributor Chris Burns.
Season 1, released January 2019, features interviews with Kären M. Mason, curator of the Louise Noun-Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women’s Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries and contributor to Perspectives on Women’s Archives; Cal Lee, professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and editor of American Archivist; Michelle Caswell, associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and author of Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia; Karen Trivette, head of special collections and archives at the Fashion Institute of Technology and cohost of the podcast An Archivist’s Tale; Anthony Cocciolo, dean of the Pratt Institute School of Information and author of Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists; and Dominique Luster, Teenie Harris archivist at the Carnegie Museum of Art and presenter at TEDx Talk in Pittsburgh; as well as stories from A Finding Aid to My Soul, an open mic event at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2018.
Listen to the full season now via the Archives in Context website, Google Play, Spotify, and iTunes.