About Katheryn |
Welcome!
I am a service-driven multidisciplinary archivist, historian, oral historian, writer, and editor. As a holder of six degrees in Music, English, Library and Information Science, and History, I thrive in creating knowledge and relationships in the spaces in between. I am highly adaptive, creative, and collaborative, with a solid handle on broad theoretical concepts and their concrete, practical applications.
As an archivist, I balance high-level project planning and departmental vision with micro-level day-to-day tasks, research assistance and instruction, and staff management. I bring seven years of teaching and tutoring experience, along with four years of building an archive from scratch. In that time, I have implemented ArchivesSpace from the ground up and trained and developed part-time assistants, interns, and contractors in archival theory and practice, copy cataloging in the Library of Congress cataloging system, ArchivesSpace, and more.
As a scholar, I bring together the disparate, though related, fields of animal studies, Black studies, the history of public health, and urban history. I interrogate the ways in which pet keeping has been linked to American-ness and bring attention to the forgotten pioneers in animal care, control, and medicine within the U.S.’s Black communities. To learn more about this topic, see my related website, animalsinblacklife.com.
As a freelancer, I have served as the writer and oral historian for the Pedacito de Tierra project, which documents the lives of Puerto Ricans in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. This multidisciplinary project has produced an original music piece by composer Angélica Negrón, a short documentary film, numerous concerts, and more. I have collaborated with community and project organizer José Antonio Zayas Cabán on this and previous projects, Negrón, members of the Twin Cities’ Puerto Rican community, the Minnesota Historical Society, and more. Check out our StoryMap (designed by Joseph Harrington) and stay tuned for future concerts and projects.
I am a service-driven multidisciplinary archivist, historian, oral historian, writer, and editor. As a holder of six degrees in Music, English, Library and Information Science, and History, I thrive in creating knowledge and relationships in the spaces in between. I am highly adaptive, creative, and collaborative, with a solid handle on broad theoretical concepts and their concrete, practical applications.
As an archivist, I balance high-level project planning and departmental vision with micro-level day-to-day tasks, research assistance and instruction, and staff management. I bring seven years of teaching and tutoring experience, along with four years of building an archive from scratch. In that time, I have implemented ArchivesSpace from the ground up and trained and developed part-time assistants, interns, and contractors in archival theory and practice, copy cataloging in the Library of Congress cataloging system, ArchivesSpace, and more.
As a scholar, I bring together the disparate, though related, fields of animal studies, Black studies, the history of public health, and urban history. I interrogate the ways in which pet keeping has been linked to American-ness and bring attention to the forgotten pioneers in animal care, control, and medicine within the U.S.’s Black communities. To learn more about this topic, see my related website, animalsinblacklife.com.
As a freelancer, I have served as the writer and oral historian for the Pedacito de Tierra project, which documents the lives of Puerto Ricans in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. This multidisciplinary project has produced an original music piece by composer Angélica Negrón, a short documentary film, numerous concerts, and more. I have collaborated with community and project organizer José Antonio Zayas Cabán on this and previous projects, Negrón, members of the Twin Cities’ Puerto Rican community, the Minnesota Historical Society, and more. Check out our StoryMap (designed by Joseph Harrington) and stay tuned for future concerts and projects.
About the Header Photo
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Sharing one of our archival treasures with colleagues at a nearby archive.
Photograph by Amanda B. Kimball. |