Researcher Bio

I’ve worn many hats throughout my life: worked in publishing as editor for a small monthly magazine; worked as a museum specialist and archivist at the Smithsonian for many years; am a member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and Academy of Certified Archivists; and am in “Who's Who in America” and “Who's Who of American Women.” My love is historical research and writing. Have had articles published, but one of my main goals in life is to publish a book. I’ve started several but found out that writing a book, one that depends on serious, scholarly research, takes a lot of time which I never seem to have. But I’ll get there. I did write a 288-page thesis for my MA degree in anthropology. I am now just finishing up my third year in a predoctoral program in American history at George Mason University. I've spent more than a decade conducting in-depth genealogical research and am very expert in archival research in the Washington DC area (LC, NARA, various Smithsonian Archives, etc.).

Presentations:

Contributor to panel: “The Law and Ethics When Dealing with the Records of Indigenous Peoples,” at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, August 2-8, 2004.

Contributor to panel: “Cultural Sensitivity and Intellectual Property in Anthropological Papers: Ethics and Access,” at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, August 17-24, 2003.

Presenter at the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Conference, July 2, 1999. Paper entitled: “Object Documentation as Virtual Preservation: Archival and Literature Research into the Herbert W. Krieger 1934 Collection From the Lower Columbia River.”

Publications:

“Henry L. Dawes” in Treaties With American Indians. Edited by Donald Fixico. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC- CLIO, December 2007.

“William F. Cody ‘Buffalo Bill’” in Encyclopedia of American Indian History. Edited by Bruce Johansen and Barry Pritzker Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, August 2007.

A Research Guide to the Native American Collections in the National Anthropological Archives/Human Studies Film Archives. Privately published by the Smithsonian Institution Native American Repatriation Review Committee. Washington, DC: 2002.

Organizations:

Member Academy of Certified Archivists 2004-present
Member Society of American Archivists, 2003-present
Member First Archivists Circle, 2005-present
Member, Native American Archives Roundtable 2005-present
Member of the Code of Ethics Committee of the Society of American Archivists 2003-2005

Committees:

Chair, the SAA J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award Committee, 2007-2008
Member, the SAA J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award Committee, 2006-2007
Member, Host Committee for the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA)
Member, the Steering Committee for the Native American Archives Roundtable 2005-2007
Member, Advisory Board, National Geographic Television & Film, “Jamestown 1607-1609,” 2006