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Eight New SAA Fellows Honored
Nancy Bartlett, Thomas Battle, Connell
Gallagher, Joan
Krizack, Richard Pearce-Moses, Megan
Sniffin-Marinoff,
Helen Tibbo, and John (Jac) Treanor were named Fellows of
the Society of American Archivists on August 19, 2005, during
an awards ceremony at SAA’s 69th Annual Meeting in New
Orleans. An overflow crowd packed the ballroom of the New
Orleans Hilton Riverside to salute the eight new Fellows.
Established in 1957 and conferred annually, the distinction of
Fellow is the highest honor bestowed on individuals by SAA
and is awarded for outstanding contributions to the archival
profession. There are now 154 current members so honored
out of a membership of more than 4,200.
The Committee for the Selection of SAA Fellows evaluates
nominees on the following criteria: appropriate academic education
and professional and technical training; a minimum of
seven years professional experience in any of the fields encompassed
in the archival profession; writing of superior quality
and usefulness in advancing SAA objectives; and contributions
to the archival profession through work in and for SAA.
As specified by the SAA constitution, election as Fellow is
by 75 percent vote of the Committee for the Selection of SAA
Fellows. The committee consisted of the five immediate past
presidents of SAA—Timothy Ericson, Peter Hirtle (chair),
Steven Hensen, H. Thomas Hickerson, and Lee J. Stout—and
three Fellows selected by Council—Anne Gilliland, Karen
Jefferson, and Kris Kiesling.
SAA welcomes the eight new Fellows and extends its thanks
to those involved in the selection process. Following are citations
for the Fellows presented during the awards ceremony.
NANCY BARTLETT
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NANCY BARTLETT is Head Archivist for the University
Archives and Records Program and Assistant to the Director
for Academic Programs at the Bentley Historical Library,
University of Michigan. Her championship of international
awareness as a key component of the archival professional
identity has been lauded by her colleagues worldwide. One
nominator wrote, “The word ‘international’ is probably associated
more with Nancy Bartlett than with any other member of
the archival profession in the United States. In her work she
has informed all of us of the links that bind us through common
concerns about records management, implications of
diplomatics across political boundaries, the impact of the
European model on archival thought, the commonalities in
archival practice between East and West. [Through her] extensive
work in Denmark, France, Russia, China, and with the
International Council on Archives, she has come to a real
understanding of national, cultural, and procedural differences
among archival institutions that has been enormously influential
in shaping the international conversation about archival
practice.”
Another nominator wrote, “Nancy Bartlett is one of the most
original thinkers in the archival profession in the U.S.A. . . .
Through her extensive writings and many presentations she
has brought to all of us a greater appreciation of the role of the
archivist as mediator. That is, mediator between scholars and
the historical record, between the visual object and the user,
between the psychology of a culture and its own heritage,
between ‘silences’ in the archives and the extant record,
between bureaucratic processes and archival policy.”
A provocative and articulate author in her own right, Bartlett has served
as editor-in-chief of Comma—International
Journal on Archives; co-editor of the international section of
American Archivist, as well as co-editor of two special issues;
co-editor of a special issue on archives of China of the
International Council on Archives’ journal Janus; and a member
of the editorial boards of the American Archivist, Janus, and
the Midwest Archives Council’s Archival Issues, as well as a
member of SAA’s Task Force on Electronic Publishing. She also
has the distinction of being the only U.S. archivist ever to participate
as a stagiaire, a seminar participant in the Stage
Technique International d’Archives, in Paris in 1985.
— Anne Gilliland, University of California, Los Angeles
THOMAS C. BATTLE
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THOMAS C. BATTLE is the Director of the Moorland-Spingarn
Research Center (MSRC) at Howard University. During his 32-
year career at MSRC, he helped build an outstanding library,
museum, manuscript collection, and university archives. The
MSRC is one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive
repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of
people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other
parts of the world. As one of Howard University’s major
research facilities, the MSRC collects, preserves, and makes
available for research a wide range of resources chronicling the
Black experience.Its collections include more than 175,000
bound volumes and tens of thousands of journals, periodicals,
and newspapers; more than 17,000 feet of manuscript and
archival collections; nearly 1,000 audiotapes; hundreds of artifacts;
and 100,000 prints, photographs, maps, and other graphic
items. These extraordinary historical materials are a source of
great pride to the Black community, and the MSRC is held in
high esteem around the world.
Battle has written and published a number of articles during
his career. However, more important are his initiatives to
support scholarship and publishing. In 1983 Dr. Battle organized
a symposium on Black contributions to the preservation
of Black history that acknowledged activities dating back to
1827. The proceedings of this symposium—Black Bibliophiles
and Collectors: Preservers of Black History—were the first of six
titles in the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center Series published
by Howard University Press.
Battle is an active member of numerous archives, library,
history, and museum associations and works with many community
groups. His outreach efforts have educated countless
persons about the importance of preserving history and introduced
them to archives as a profession. He is a long-time
member of the Society of American Archivists and has served
on numerous committees and task forces and most recently
completed a term on its governing council. He works tirelessly
to expand diversity, always recommending and encouraging
the participation and inclusion of younger and lesser
known archivists.
An alumnus of Howard University, Battle is affectionately
known as “Dr. B,” “Bat,” and “TCB” (for “taking
care of business”) His dedication, commitment, enthusiasm, generosity,
skills, knowledge, leadership, and contributions exemplify
what is best in the archival profession.
— Karen Jefferson, Atlanta University Center
CONNELL GALLAGHER
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CONNELL GALLAGHER joined the University of Vermont in
1970 as its University Archivist and Curator of Manuscripts. He
currently serves as the Director of Research Collections at the
Bailey/Howe Library and is also a lecturer on archives and
Vermont history. Within the archival profession, he has made
numerous contributions to the theory of privacy and confidentiality—
a perennial topic of abiding interest to archivists, but one
of special and keen interest in today’s political and social climate.
Gallagher is actively involved in a number of professional
associations. He has served SAA in a variety of leadership
capacities, including as chair of the Privacy and Confidentiality
Roundtable, Congressional Papers Roundtable, and the College
and University Archives Section. He is a member of SAA’s
Ethics Committee and has served as a mentor to new
archivists. In addition, he is the past president of the New
England Archivists and the Vermont Library Association, and
is a long-time member of the Academy of Certified Archivists.
Gallagher has come to represent the very best of the
archival profession. As one of his supporters put it, “Whether
it be mentoring young archivists, serving our national and
regional organizations, or publishing and presenting so the rest
of us can learn from his work, Connie Gallagher has served
the archive profession with distinction for more than thirty
years.” Many of his supporters singled out the mentoring he
had provided to younger colleagues.
Others supporters remarked upon his demeanor: “…a
quiet exemplar of the archival profession…never [grandstanding]
but always there when needed—one of the quintessential ‘
nice guys’…[a] consummate professional, respectful though
rigorous, thoughtful though articulate, patient though pointed.” There is remarkable unanimity among Gallagher’s
colleagues and nominators who describe him in their letters of support as “
kind,” “wise,” “dedicated,” “steadfast,” “intelligent,” “modest,” “
knowledgeable,” “patient,” and “professional.” The
archival
profession is lucky to have someone within its midst who so
effectively embodies these assets.
— Steven Hensen, Duke University
JOAN KRIZACK
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JOAN KRIZACK is the University Archivist and Head of
Special Collections at Northeastern University. Her nominators
cited her “burning intellectual honesty coupled with an astounding
capacity for work and no shyness about ‘encouraging’ others
to excel.” She is a remarkable archivist who has distinguished
herself through her writings, her service to the profession, and
her archival activism. In 1994 she edited the publication,
Documentation Planning for the U.S. Health Care System (Johns
Hopkins University Press), which eventually won SAA’s Waldo
Gifford Leland Award for writing of superior quality and usefulness.
Later on in her career at Northeastern University, Krizack started another exemplary
project to document the experiences
of underrepresented populations in the Boston area.
As one nominator noted, “Joan’s fiery activism was an
inspiring contrast to the dry appraisal rhetoric . . . that I had
encountered up to then.” Through this project Krizack made
history a palpable and empowering part of the communities
present, by showing them that their past accomplishments and
challenges are worthy of remembrance and study.
Krizack has also been a major contributor to the archival
profession. She has served SAA in a variety of leadership
capacities on numerous sections, committees, and boards,
including the Program Committee, the Publications Board, the
American Archivist Editorial Board, and the Task Force on
Diversity. Her nominators all note her willingness to tackle
complicated, challenging, and at times contentious issues,
while always giving thoughtful consideration to the opinion of
others. She has been very active in the New England
Archivists as well, including serving as its president. Krizack
helped create the current Research Fellowship Program for the
National Historical Publications and Records Commission and,
after overseeing its operations for several years in Boston, saw
it safely moved to North Carolina.
One of her nominators put it best: “Joan’s dedication to
archives makes you want to be a better archivist.”
— Peter Hirtle, Cornell University
RICHARD PEARCE-MOSES
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RICHARD PEARCE-MOSES is the Director of Digital
Government Information at the Arizona State Library Division
of Archives and Public Records, where he has worked since
1999. Prior to that time he was Photograph Archivist and then
Documentary Collections Archivist and Automation
Coordinator at The Heard Museum, and from 1988 to 1994,
Curator of Photographs and Associate Archivist in the
Department of Archives and Manuscripts in the Arizona State
University Libraries. The earliest part of his career was spent
as Historic Photography Project Coordinator at the Texas
Historical Foundation, and as Assistant to the Curator of the
Photography Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Pearce-Moses’s service to SAA has been extensive and varied.
This month he begins his one-year term as the association’s
61st president. He was a member of the governing council
from 1999 to 2002, twice served on the Nominating
Committee, and was a member of the Committee on Education
and Professional Development, the Education Office Advisory
Board, the Committee on Archival Information Exchange, the
Task Force on Sections and Roundtables, and chair of the
Visual Materials Section. For many years he co-instructed the
SAA workshop “Administration of Photographic Collections.”
In 2002 Pearce-Moses was awarded a fellowship from the
National Historical Publications and Records Commission to
tackle the revision of the SAA glossary. The just-published
Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (SAA, 2005) contains
more than 2,000 defined entries and more than 600 leadin
terms and is destined to become an authoritative reference.
Several of Pearce-Moses’s nominators spoke of his compassion
as a mentor, his willingness to reach out to new members
of SAA, and his work with Native American archivists and
their collections. One nominator wrote, “He asks hard questions,
makes thoughtful proposals, enjoys vigorous debate, and
both relishes and contributes to the camaraderie that is the
hallmark of groups within SAA. He is intent and avid about
his profession.”
— Kris Kiesling, University of Texas at Austin
MEGAN SNIFFIN-MARINOFF
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MEGAN SNIFFIN-MARINOFF is University Archivist at
Harvard University. She was described by her nominators as a
“model professional,” “a mentor to a generation of archivists
who received their education at Simmons College,” and a
“prodigious contributor” to the archival profession. She began
her career as a graduate assistant in the university archives at
New York University and went on to a distinguished teaching
career at the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and
Information Science. She then was appointed Head of Archives
and Special Collections at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Later on she joined the staff of Harvard University,
serving first as librarian and deputy director of the Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger
Library on the History of Women in America, before assuming
her current position as university archivist.
Sniffin-Marinoff’s colleagues and former students credit
her with being a “clear thinker, a compassionate colleague” and
a dedicated mentor whose “sound judgment and ability to
articulate issues in a soft-spoken but effective way” have benefited
those with whom she has had the chance to work.
Over the years she has contributed countless hours of
service to the Society of American Archivists, including as a
member of the governing council, Nominating Committee,
Committee on Education and Professional Development,
Public Information Committee, Committee on Regional
Archival Activity, and Awards subcommittees. She has been
equally active in the New England Archivists and has served
as a consultant, trustee, and advisor for such groups as the
Northeast Document Conservation Center, the WGBH
Education Foundation, and the City of Boston Archives
Advisory Committee.
She also has an impressive record of international involvement,
currently serving as a member of the Steering
Committee of Section on University and Research Institution
Archives for the International Council on Archives, and a participant
in two international colloquia on archival education.
— Timothy Ericson, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
HELEN R. TIBBO
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HELEN R. TIBBO is a Professor in the School of Information
and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill. Her principal achievements are as a scholar and as an outstanding
educator of new archivists, librarians, and information
scientists. Armed with a PhD in Information and Library
Science from the University of Maryland, she accepted an initial
appointment at the University of North Carolina in 1989 and was promoted to full professor in 2003. At UNC, while contributing
to the building of a top-ranked academic program, she
has served as Assistant Dean and as Associate Dean of the
School of Information and Library Science; she has served on
numerous academic and administrative bodies, including two
terms on the Graduate School’s Administrative Board; and she
was elected as treasurer and as chair of the UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
Tibbo’s research focuses on the users of archives and their
discovery and use of archival holdings, particularly in today’s
networked environment. Her university courses range across a
broad spectrum, from archival administration and records
management to information technologies and digital preservation
to information retrieval and use and user evaluation. She
is a dedicated teacher who infuses her students with a passion
for research, writing, and the archival endeavor. And she’s an
enthusiastic mentor, committed to insuring the professional
success of her students, thirteen of whom have published and
won awards. In fact, since its establishment in 1997, one half
of all of the recipients of SAA’s Theodore Calvin Pease Award
for superior student writing have been Tibbo’s pupils, which is
a remarkable record.
At SAA, she has served in a variety of leadership capacities,
including election to the governing council and to the
Nominating Committee; as chair of the Archival Educators
Roundtable and the Task Force on the Future of the American
Archivist; and as a member of the American Archivist Editorial
Board. She has also appeared on fourteen of the last sixteen
SAA Annual Meeting programs. In 1994, she received SAA’s
Fellows’ Ernst Posner Award for her outstanding essay in
American Archivist, “The Epic Struggle: Subject Retrieval from
Large Bibliographic Databases.”
— H. Thomas Hickerson, Cornell University
JOHN (JAC) TREANOR
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JOHN (JAC) TREANOR is Vice Chancellor for Archives and
Records Management for the Archdiocese of Chicago. He
began his career in Boston in its archdiocesan archives after
receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from
the University of Massachusetts. Following two years at the
Massachusetts State Archives, Treanor joined the Archdiocese
of Chicago in 1986 and built its archives into a model repository
that has influenced Catholic archives around the world. He
has taken modern archival practice, reinforced it through
records management, and demonstrated how information technology
can both enable and incorporate these professional
streams. He has done this while persuading dioceses and religious
orders that archives are both canonically necessary and
extraordinarily valuable. And, in the midst of modern
American Catholicism’s stormiest era, when shutting the doors
to the world might seem the easiest path, Treanor has campaigned
for transparency and openness for the archival record.
Treanor is among a small number of archivists who have
found the means to integrate archives and records management,
and he has implemented an electronic records program.
He has been instrumental in technology planning and policy
and he helped re-engineer the archdiocese-wide IT infrastructure.
One of Treanor’s nominators noted that his “knowledge
of technology and how to apply it to solve business problems
continues to be a significant asset” for the archdiocese.
Not only has Treanor created a model program, but his
leadership efforts have reached around the world. He has lobbied
chancellors and bishops to promote archival programs.
He helped create the Association of Catholic Diocesan
Archivists and has held all its offices. He created biennial conferences
where diocesan archivists meet leading professionals
and researchers. The publications he edited from these conferences
both unify practice and advocate for the scholarly use of
the records.
In addition, Treanor’s commitment to education extends to
frequent presentations in venues ranging from local to international.
He has served a variety of organizations well in program
development, he’s fostered communication and shared
effort between the archival and records management professions,
and he’s a mentor to both his own staff and his colleagues
in the greater archival community.
— Leon Stout, Pennsylvania State University
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