About the Bloggers

 Editors

Alfie M. Paul joined the Civilian Processing Team in 2007 after leaving his beloved Boston for the DC area and the Archives program at UMD. In Boston, he first learned to love all things archival as an intern at the JFK Library and Museum and continues to believe that records do, indeed, matter (especially if they are from Massachusetts or about the Kennedys)! His fondest wish is to someday run the archives of the Tennis Hall of Fame–or to be inducted.

 

Robin Waldman has been with NARA since 2004. She began her work here with the declassification unit, and then moved to the accessioning team before coming to work in processing. Clearly she does not know how to follow the natural lifecycle of records. Robin is originally from Niagara Falls, New York, and if you looked in her childhood bedroom you’d find two well-organized bins filled with every note she was ever passed in high school. Though her mother wishes she would throw that stuff out already, she and her friends have been known to reread those notes for historical context and enduring value. Obviously, she was meant to be an archivist.

Jason Clingerman is a processing archivist for civilian textual records. He has worked at NARA since 2008 when he started as a student technician. Jason loves his job because he loves making records available for researcher use! He is interested in records dealing with 20th century diplomacy and intelligence. Outside of work, Jason enjoys reading, hiking, camping, skateboarding, and kayaking.
 

T. Juliette Arai is a reference archivist at Archives I.

M. Marie Maxwell is a native Floridian who attended the University of Florida, then went to grad school at UMASS-Amherst, studying Early Modern European History. She has an MLS from the University of Maryland- College Park and currently serves as an Archives Specialist at the National Archives and Records Administration. She has worked at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Archives I, and Archives II.
 
 

Contributors

Lloyd Beers is an archivist on the Navy processing team. He has worked at NARA since 2007. Lloyd entered the archives profession as second career after thirty years in the maritime industry.  Lloyd combines a passion for history with his knowledge of the U.S. Navy and other government maritime agencies to make these historically significant records accessible to NARA researchers.

Ashby Crowder is an archivist on the civilian textual records processing team and a historian of twentieth-century eastern Europe. His scholarship has appeared in Archives of Totalitarianism, Balkanistica, and Polish Review.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Robert Fahs is a processing archivist at Archives II.

Sarah Farinholt started working at NARA in 2009 as a student archives technician. She has processed both civil and military records, and has been part of the textual accessioning team. When not at work, she enjoys reading, hiking, and baking. Sarah is originally from Arlington, Virginia.

Theresa Fitzgerald is an archivist at the National Archives in St. Louis.  She received a Bachelors in History from Oklahoma State University and a Masters in History with a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Before joining the National Archives she was a Data Entry Archivist with the Missouri Historical Society (Richard A. Gephardt Papers).   She has worked as an archivist for NARA – St. Louis for 3 years, which included a two year training program: the Archivist Development Program.  Theresa works primarily with military personnel records.

Joe Gillette has been with NARA since 2004. He grew up in Maryland, received a Master’s in History from Duquesne University in 2000 and a Bachelor’s in History and Government & Politics from the University of Maryland in 1992. He has worked in university (Duquesne, Carnegie-Mellon), museum (Orange County Regional History Museum in Orlando, FL), and government (NARA) archives. At NARA, Joe has worked in declassification on the Navy, Civil, Military, and Workflow Management teams, and currently work for textual processing with RG 472 (Vietnam) records.

Onaona Guay is an archivist in the Textual Processing Division.  She started at NARA in 2008 as a archives technician while she was a graduate student of the Archives program at the University of Maryland .  Before coming to NARA, Onaona worked in fancy-schmancy New York City restaurants as a sommelier before deciding she wanted to put her history degree to use.  She also wanted to sit down more often and go to bed at a reasonable hour.  Onaona worked on the Holocaust Era-Assets Microfilm/Digitization Project, and produced the pamphlet DN1924: Records of the Foreign Exchange Depository Group of the Office of the Finance Adviser, 1944-1950.  In her spare time, Onaona enjoys reading, running and spending time with her husband and son.

Denise Henderson started at NARA in 2003 as a student technician, walking many miles through the halls of Archives 2 as she pulled and refiled records that were requested by researchers. Until recently, she was an archivist on the Civil Team in the Textual Archives Division. She now holds the role of Review Team Lead with the Online Public Access staff. A graduate of the University of Maryland’s library science program, Denise is a Philadelphia transplant who is on a continuous quest to find an authentic cheesesteak in the suburbs of Maryland. (Note: it’s NOT steak and cheese!!)
 

Janet Hodges is a volunteer with the Volunteer Office at the National Archives at College Park.  She volunteers as a staff aide on the World War I holdings maintenance project as well as a Motion Pictures arrangement project.  She also serves as a docent, providing tours to new staff and visitors.
 
 

Ingi House is an archives technician in the Silver Spring facility, preparing documents for digitization for the Ancestry.com partnership.

Dale Jackson is an archives technician with the Navy records processing team at Archives II.

Carrie Jones is a student employee at Archives II.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

David Langbart began working at the National Archives in 1977 (that is not a typo). He is a specialist in the records of the foreign affairs agencies and of the post-World War II national-level intelligence agencies. He has extensive experience in processing and description, reference, and archival appraisal. He presently has both reference and processing responsibilities in the Textual Archives Services Division. Outside of work, David is an avid reader and is active in several organizations promoting the preservation of Civil War battlefields.

Judy Luis-Watson joined NARA in 2008 and is part of the dynamic Education and Public Programs team.  She coordinates the volunteer corps at Archives II, orienting and training staff aides as well as docents and supervising archival projects in collaboration with archivists and conservators.  Previously she coordinated several hundred volunteers at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, co-managed a music and education business, and managed national education outreach programs at the Foreign Policy Association.  At the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, she earned a BA in American Studies and a MA in the Socio-Cultural Foundations of Education.

Tom McAnear is a processing archivist at Archives II.

Dominic McDevitt-Parks is the National Archives’ 2011 Wikipedian-in-Residence.









Lopez D. Matthews, Jr., born in Baltimore, Maryland, earned his B.A. in history from Coppin State University in 2004, a Masters degree in Public History in 2006 and his PhD in United States History from Howard University in 2009.  Dr. Matthews has been a paid intern at the Maryland State Archives, the Moorland Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture and the Humanities Council of Washington, DC. Currently, Matthews is an Archives Technician in the Holdings Management Division at the National Archives. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Coppin State University where he teaches courses covering United States, African American and World History.  He is also an Executive Council Member on the board of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc. (ASALH).

Jean Onufrak is a volunteer working on the RG 120 WWI American Expeditionary Forces project at Archives II.  She has also annotated on-line Vietnam War Marine Corps and Army images that are part of a NARA/footnote.com partnership project.  Previously, Jean was a curatorial volunteer at the National Museum of American History.  She has a lifelong interest in history and credits Laura Ingalls Wilder for getting her hooked.

Trevor Plante is a senior reference archivist at Archives I.

Monique Politowski is an archives technician who works on the NARA/Ancestry digitization partnership project in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Lee Preston volunteered on the RG 120 WWI American Expeditionary Forces project at Archives II. After being a college professor for 50 years, teaching in the business schools of several universities, he retired from the University of Maryland. He always had a strong interest in US history and included the historical context in his teaching and writing about business management, both in the US and around the world.

James Rush is a supervisory archivist in the textual processing unit at Archives II.

Meghan Ryan works in processing and accessioning at Archives II.

Dawn M. Sherman-Fells is a processing archivist at Archives II.

Kate Sohasky is an Archives Technician working on the Ancestry.com digitization partnership out of Silver Spring, Maryland. Her other written work includes her undergraduate thesis, published in the Berkeley Undergraduate Journal. A research enthusiast, she is an aspiring historian and hopes to go on to author exhibits as well as to further publish.

Erin Townsend is an archivist and Digitization Project Manager for the Textual Archives Services Division.  She began working at NARA in September of 2008 as a student technician on the civilian textual records processing team. Now, she spends most of her time coordinating digitization projects, particularly with external digitization partners.  Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, reading, watching movies, and spending time with her husband and dog.

Alan Walker is a processing archivist at Archives II.

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