About:
Dr. Cruz is a Boston native and interdisciplinary historian. Her research expertise includes African American and Latinx history with a focus on social movements as well as women’s and gender Studies.
Selected Text:
The book I have selected is Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940–1980, edited by Jeanne F. Theoharis and Komozi Woodard.
Rationale:
As a civil rights historian, I chose this book because it is a critical text in the field that challenges the dominant narrative that the movement was only in the American South. The scholars featured in this edited collection have all greatly shaped my own work on social movements in the urban north.
Freedom North
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About:
Adam Kriesberg- Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science.
Adam's research and teaching focus on archives, digital preservation, government records, research data management, information policy, and preservation of social media materials. Prior to joining the faculty at Simmons, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Agricultural Data Curation at the USDA National Agricultural Library and the University of Maryland, College Park, through a Cooperative Agreement. A 2016-17 Research Data Alliance/US (RDA) Data Share Fellow, his work has been published in scholarly venues including Archival Science, JASIS&T, The American Archivist, Data Science Journal, Library Trends, and The International Journal of Digital Curation.
Selected Text:
The title of the piece I'd like to highlight is "The second US presidential social media transition: How private platforms impact the digital preservation of public records" published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology in 2022. This paper, written with a longtime collaborator from the University of Texas, highlights my research on social media and digital preservation issues concerning government archival records. In this paper and my ongoing work, I seek to understand the shifting landscape of digital information and how the public sector fits into these privately operated platforms.
About:
Dr. Rebecca Stallworth was recently promoted to Associate Professor with tenure and works in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University. Her research examines diversity issues in academic libraries and the information-seeking behaviors of first-generation graduate students. In 2020, she received a Laura Bush 21st Century Library Program grant from the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS) for her African American Undergraduates’ Use of Academic Libraries project. She is a member of the American Library Association (ALA), the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), and the Black Caucus American Library Association (BCALA).
Selected Text:
Belonging: A Culture of Place by bell hooks
I selected this book because my research focuses on people in underrepresented groups, and that sense of belonging, especially in academic institutions, can be challenging. Considering what is happening in this country, what bell hooks wrote resonates more now than ever.
Belonging
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About:
Associate Professor
After finishing undergrad at Aquinas College in Michigan, I studied marine ecology, obtaining my MS at University of Oregon. It was there that I saw an animal in its embryonic form, a sea urchin, for the first time and thought it was the most amazing thing. That interest led me to UC Berkeley to study frogs, specifically the molecular mechanisms underlying how a frog embryo forms its neural system. After a postdoc at Harvard Medical School to study limb evolution and development, my current work combines my training and asks questions about how frogs make their limbs post embryogenesis. Above all, I love sharing my wonder of the natural world with my students.
Selected Text:
Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni
This is a children’s book about a tadpole and a fish who are friends; both of their worlds expand when the tadpole metamorphoses into a frog and comes back to tell his friend about the wider world. This book reminds me that it’s important to think of my student’s perspectives in order to be an effective educator.
Fish Is Fish
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