Ok, well, I’m not really as cute as this. This is just here because I really need to get an updated photo taken.
Hi. I’m Kate. Here’s some official about me and what I’ve been doing with my time.
Kate Theimer is a Project Partner with the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center, focusing on cataloging photographs and authority control of student names. She also hosts the Carlisle Indian School Research podcast, and is the author of A Very Correct Idea of Our School”: A Photographic History of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (2018).
Kate is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists, and has written, edited or contributed chapters to fourteen books about archives, and numerous articles in archival journals. Kate has given the plenary addresses at international archival conferences in New Zealand, Canada, Germany and Norway, as well as at state and regional archival associations in the United States. She has participated in or moderated over twenty presentations at conferences since 2004.
Before starting her career as an independent writer and editor, she worked in the policy division of the National Archives and Records Administration. She holds a Master of Science in Information (Specialization in Archives and Records Management) from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts (Art History & Archaeology) from the University of Maryland.