CoPAR Symposium 125 Attendees, Fall 1999
Who we are
We are a group of practitioners and scholars committed to an ethical and sustainable future of anthropological and ethnographic records.
CoPAR Co-Chairs
Diana Marsh
Diana Marsh (PhD, University of British Columbia) is Assistant Professor of Archives and Digital Curation at the University of Maryland’s College of Information…
Ricardo Punzalan
Ricardo Punzalan (PhD, University of Michigan) is Associate Professor of Archives and Digital Curation at the University of Michigan School of Information…
CoPAR Advisory Board
Lisa Cliggett
Lisa Cliggett (PhD, Indiana University) is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, and former editor (2011-2015) of the Wiley-Blackwell journal Economic Anthropology…
Patricia Galloway
Patricia Galloway joined the University of Texas at Austin School of Information’s archival program, where she is now Professor, in 2000. She teaches courses in digital archives, archival appraisal…
Candace S. Greene
Candace S. Greene (PhD Anthropology, Oklahoma, 1985) joined the Department of Anthropology in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1985…
Margaret Hedstrom
Margaret Hedstrom is the Robert M. Warner Collegiate Professor of Information at the School of Information, University of Michigan where she teaches in the areas of archives, electronic records…
Robert Leopold
Robert Leopold is the former deputy director for research and collections at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, where he also served as interim director of the Ralph Rinzler…
Nancy Parezo
Nancy Parezo is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, where she has been teaching since 1982. She officially joined the American Indian Studies faculty…
Francis Pierce-McManamon
Francis Pierce-McManamon is a faculty member in the MA in Cultural Heritage Management Program at Johns Hopkins University. From 2009 to 2019, he was the Executive and Founding Director of the….
Mark Turin
Mark Turin (PhD, Linguistics, Leiden University, 2006) is an anthropologist, linguist and occasional radio presenter, and an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia…
CoPAR Working Group
Dr. Andrew Asher
Dr. Andrew Asher is the Assessment Librarian at Indiana University Bloomington, where he leads the libraries’ qualitative and quantitative assessment programs, conducts research on the anthropology of…
Sarah Buchanan
Sarah Buchanan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies (iSchool) at the University of Missouri. See more for a faculty profile…
Celia Emmelhainz
Celia Emmelhainz is the program manager for the National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives at the Smithsonian Institution. She has worked as an academic librarian in California, Maine…
Daniel Ginsberg
Daniel Ginsberg is Director of Education and Professional Practice at the American Anthropological Association. Their role at the AAA includes making anthropology accessible to the…
Dr. Robin R. R. Gray
Dr. Robin R. R. Gray is Ts’msyen and Mikisew Cree, and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research centers primarily on the politics of Indigeneity in settler…
Dr. Lori Jahnke
Dr. Lori Jahnke is the Librarian for Anthropology at Emory University. Her research interests include non-textual systems of information organization and communication, and the relationship of…
Jesse Johnston
Jesse Johnston is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. He has previously served as a senior librarian for digital content at the Library of Congress…
Katie Kirakosian
Katie Kirakosian is an archaeologist and adjunct faculty of University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA. With Heidi Bauer-Clap, her work has explored archives and archaeology and barriers to access…
Gina Rappaport
Gina Rappaport is the Archivist for Photograph Collections and Head Archivist at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Anthropological Archives. Though not an anthropologist, Gina experienced…
Hannah Turner
Hannah Turner is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Information. She is a critical information studies and museum studies scholar who researches the…
Rachel Fernandez
Rachel Fernandez is the Digital Preservation Program Manager at the Center for Digital Antiquity at Arizona State University. Rachel is responsible for managing digital curation projects for various…
Paul Sutherland
Paul Sutherland is Archivist of Indigenous Materials at the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR), American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Lenapehoking, where he has been…