My archives management scholarship explores the intersections between social justice, radical empathy, and archival practice, with a focus on privacy and confidentiality, ethics, and reparative description for underrepresented histories in archival records. I am currently working on a book exploring the relationship between archives, eugenics, and American family life in the mid-twentieth century. I am also visual historian who writes about the photographic history of the nineteenth-century American West frontier, particularly issues of colonialism, genocide, and white supremacy in photographic encounters between U.S. Army officers and members of Indigenous communities during the era of American expansion. Additionally, I speak regularly on the history of popular music in Colorado.
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archives management, photographic history of the American west, Chicano/a/x and Latino/a/x history in Colorado, diversity equity and inclusiveness in archives, social justice in archives, disability in archives, Down Syndrome, privacy and confidentiality in archives, archives practice and art creation/education
