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Past SAA Officers

2008-2009 SAA Officers:

  • David Jackson
  • Lance Stuchell
  • Julie Judkins
  • Mark Levitt

2007-2008 SAA Officers:

  • Beth Panozzo
  • Anne Thomason
  • Jeremy York
  • David Zande

2006-2007 SAA Officers:

  • Jessica L'Esperance
  • Jill Griffiths
  • Kyle Conner
  • Sarah Walch
  • Erin Passehl
  • Seth Shaw

2005-2006 SAA Officers:


Erin Matas

I'm a second-year SI student focusing on both archives and librarianship. This summer I attended the SAA Meeting in New Orleans (supremely inspiring), which has sparked a new interest in archives conference-hopping. I work as an assistant reference librarian at Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library and I also work for The Ann Arbor News in their classified advertising department. Before moving to Ann Arbor, I lived in San Francisco and managed design projects for a marketing company for five years. I earned my B.As in History and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I'm a foodie, have an amazing partner and two cats, love indoor sport climbing, I garden organically, walk or bike nearly everywhere, and am a long-time french horn player. Visit ErinWeb.

Jeremiah Mason

I was born and raised in Laurium, a small town in the north western UP. I grew up surrounded by the natural beauty of the Keweenaw Peninsula and Lake Superior, and the rich cultural heritage of the Copper Country. I graduated from Calumet High School in May of 1999, and from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, with a BA in Architecture in May of 2003. I work for the National Park Service, at Keweenaw National Historical Park, in my hometown, as an archives technician. I’m involved with a number of historic preservation efforts, I’m not so active in leftist politics as I used to be, I love to travel, I sing in the choir at church, I can’t wait till I don’t have any more homework, I’m an NPR junkie, and I love to camp at the beach, swim in Lake Superior, and sleep in the sand under the stars.

Did anyone else think the accommodations at MAC this fall
were a little tight?

Ursula Arnold

Hello, I am Ursula A. Arnold, because lets face it, Ursula Arnold just isn't unique enough. I am your friendly SAA secretary and a "third year" student in Archives and Records Management. I grew up in "The Middle of Nowhere", Wisconsin, otherwise known as "Just outside Rudolph, that town to the north of Wisconsin Rapids, 2 hours north of Madison" if you ask the particulars. My father works with dairy farmers and consequently, I am quite steeped in the family dairy farming culture of central Wisconsin. My mother works as a dietitian and head of the local county WIC program. I came to SI right after getting my BA in History and Ethnic Studies at St Cloud State University in St. Cloud, MN. While there, I was active in the social justice groups on campus, chairing the group Non-Violent Alternatives (NOVA) in my senior year. I also studied abroad at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and am always willing to talk about my experience there.

I started here at SI in the fall of 2003, David Wallace taught my 580 and my 504 short paper was based on clips from The Restaurant. On the way back to school for my second semester, my sister and I ran into a 44-car-pile-up on I-90 right outside Madison, WI. Of the dozens of people involved, three were injured, two seriously, one critically. My sister was seriously injured, I was the critical patient. In the course of the accident (of which I have no memory), I suffered a brain injury that kept me in the hospital for 19 days, home until mid February, and definitely unable to do graduate level work for several months. Since then, I have seen a nearly complete recovery, or, as complete a recovery as one can expect from a brain injury. I restarted school in the fall of 2004, full steam ahead. I think the hallmark of this year (2005) are the conferences I've attended, the IS&T Digital Archiving Conference in April, SAA in August and MAC in September. My academic interests include early 20th century Middle Eastern history, post colonial African history, underrepresented people, most specifically refugee groups in the United States, most, if not all aspects of digital recordkeeping and archiving as well as archival arrangement and description. For a more detailed picture of me, visit my website http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~uarnold.

Andy Peterson

I graduated from Michigan in 1997 with an undergrad in Anthropology. I was then hired to do computer programming back when companies were just taking warm bodies. This was just before Y2K and the bursting bubble. Anyway, I had been doing coding and project management ever since. I like food. I like to travel. I like movies. I like the outdoors. I took a leave of absence from my job in 2001 and worked in Peru on an archaeological dig and did some adventuring for 4 months. I came to SI with an interest in HCI but have since been changing my curriculum to be tailored with a combination between HCI and ARM. My interests at SI include usability, electronic records management, museum studies and social software. I also am on the Executive Board of SOCHI and am also active in CIC.

Andrew Bangert

Specialization

I'm graduating Archives and Records Management instead of Tailored as I started out, but I still think the specializations are stupid.

Before SI, I

  • got an undergraduate degree in Cognitive Science and Psychology
  • studied Computer Science in a fantastic experimenal program with faculty from MIT
  • worked in the Cambridge area doing Web-oriented development and office automation

Electives taken at SI

Natural Language Processing, Interface Design, Management of Electronic Records, Preservation of Information, Access Systems for Archival Materials, Information and Intellectual Property Law, Information in Organizations, Networks: Theory and Application, Networked Cities (Pervasive Computing)

Career Objective

I want to work in a fast-paced, tight-communication-loop environment, with creative people who have ideas, doing stuff that matters.

Dave LaCrone

I've worked in libraries for a little over five years, not counting that year in high school I spent napping behind the YA stacks instead of shelving books. Currently, I'm pursuing an ARM specialization, but maintain a keen interest in academic librarianship. Right now I work at the UGLi and also deliver library services in the UM residence halls. I enjoy bowling, cheap beer, cardigan sweaters, complaining, and eating giant pieces of meat. I'm suspiscious of hippies, exercise, and the Mirlyn library catalog. Basically I'm an old man in a young man's body.

Ricah Marquez

I'm a master's student at the U-M School of Information where I'm specializing in Archives & Records Management. In 1998, I graduated from The University of Georgia with a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology. Soon after that, I worked for a cultural resource management firm that provided archaeology, history, architectural history and preservation planning for 4 years. Then I ended up in Ann Arbor where I learned about the SI program. Now I'm a full-time student, and I work at the Bentley Historical Library processing collections. With any luck I would like to develop collections for a special collections repository or for a natural history museum.