Graduate Scholarships Awarded

Chad Doran, CRM,  the winner of the Rita Holt Scholarship, is a PhD student in Information Studies at the University of Maryland iSchool, in College Park, MD.  Prior to entering the doctoral program, he earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame, Master of Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University, and Master of Information Management from the University of Maryland.  In addition, he is a Certified Records Manager (CRM) and is the outgoing President of the Greater Baltimore Maryland Chapter of ARMA.  Chad is currently the Chief Records Management Officer for the Arlington County government and has over 10 years of experience in the field of records and information management.  He is currently studying how federal agencies manage records generated by social media applications.  To review a sample of his current research, click Anticiipating Disruptive Innovation in Records Management

Miriely Guerrero holds a BA in Anthropology and a minor in Computer Science from Florida International University. She is currently pursuing a Master's degree at the University of Michigan, dual specializing in Archives and Records Management and Preservation of Information. Miriely’s interest in the industry was born out of her experience with out of control shared drives and is motivated by a desire to create efficiency and streamline workflows via automation. As an officer in University of Michigan’s Society of American Archivists student chapter, she is working at raising awareness of the records management field and partnering students with local organizations in need of information management help. To review a sample of her current research, click The Role of Accountability Aware ERM Systems

Kane Klemic earned his English Master’s degree (with a concentration in Early Modern Studies) from the University of Victoria, and his B.A. in English from the University of California, Irvine. He is currently pursuing a dual Master’s of Archival Studies and Master’s of Library and Information Studies degree program at the University of British Columbia. His research interests are somewhat disparately polarized between historiographical matters of early manuscripts, textual studies, and the treatment of early printed books (especially later editorial intervention) on one hand; and the thorny contemporary issues of copyright law, the management of digital records, and the preservation of video games on the other.To review a sample of his current research, click Payment Card Industry Standards and the Sony Data Breach  

Valerie Léveillé, winner of the Mavis Eppes Scholarship, holds a B.A. (Hons.) in Histoire from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario and she is currently pursuing Masters Degrees in Archival Studies and Library and Information Studies at the School of Library, Archives and Information Studies (SLAIS) at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Valerie is Co-Coordinator for the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) Student Chapter at UBC, Secretary for the Library and Archives Studies Student Association (LASSA) and volunteers with the local ARMA Vancouver Chapter. Having recently completed an internship with the City of Richmond, her primary research interests focus on corporate  information management and government-level recordkeeping standards of practice. To review a sample of her current research, click The Federal Government Should Never Delete or Destroy Any Documents or Records

Lara Mancuso has a professional background in records and information management in the legal and healthcare sectors. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Sciences in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a PhD in History from El Colegio de México, Mexico. Lara is interested in the use of new technologies associated with digital repositories and content management systems. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Archival Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. To review a sample of her current research, click Appraisal as a Records Management Tool: The Brazilian Case

Victoria Ostrzenski holds a BA with a double major in Economics and Development Studies from the University of Calgary, and is pursuing a Master's in Archival Studies from the iSchool at the University of British Columbia, Canada.  Her research critically examines the preservation needs of different forms of digital records.  The characteristics, challenges, and requirements of e-commerce records is one area of particular interest.  Their nontraditional format necessitates a reconfiguration of theory as pertains to the concept of the "record", and implores that RM practitioners commit to opening up dialogues with IT and IS specialists in order to optimize practices for preservation. To review a sample of her current research, click Reconfiguring Perception and Procedure: An Exploration of the E-Commerce Record

Kevin Owen holds a BA in English from the University of Alberta, and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Archival Studies at the University of British Columbia’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies.  He recently completed an internship at the City of Vancouver Archives.  His research includes analyzing the culturally-determined webs of signification and referential knowledge which govern the way people understand, treat, and interact with records.  To review a sample of his current research, click A Vestigial Respect: A Mythological and Semiological Approach to an Understanding of the Social Construction of Records. To review a sample of his current research, click A Vestigial Respect: A Mythological and Semiological Approach to an Understanding of the Social Construction of Records

Joy Rowe holds a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in African Studies from the University of Cape Town. She is currently pursuing a Master of Archival Studies degree at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and has a strong interest in digital records. While studying in South Africa on a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, she discovered the power of documenting memory while working with the records of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Her research interests include the innovative digital record-making activities of protest and activist groups, including Occupy Vancouver.  Currently, she works at Vancity, Canada's largest credit union, in a knowledge and records management role. To review a sample of her current research, click  Occupy Vancouver: Leaderless and Recordless?

Isabel Taylor holds a BA in History (minors in French and German) with Distinction from Mount Allison University, a Graduate Diploma in Law with Distinction from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, and was previously a Wertewelten scholar in the Faculty of Law at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.  She is currently enrolled in the Master of Archival Studies at the University of British Columbia, where she has been active as a researcher for the German section of the ICA terminology database project.  Previous work experience includes academic editing and translation, online publishing, language teaching, and secretarial support in a German law firm.  Her research focuses on the development of appraisal theory, especially in the German-speaking world, and the intersection between law and the archival and records management fields.To review a sample of her current research, click  The Data Protection Act 1998: Challenges and Benefits for Records Management

Stephanie Woods, winner of the Leadership Scholarship, received her BA with double majors in History and Political Science from the University of New Brunswick. She is beginning her second year at Dalhousie’s School of Information Management pursuing a Masters degree in Library and Information Studies. For over the past year she has been working with the City of Saint John in New Brunswick assisting the Corporate Records Manager implement a new electronic information system that will fully capture City Hall’s digital information. Her interests are in digital records management; specifically the access and retrieval of records through the use of a taxonomy and organization of metadata within electronic systems. To review a sample of her current research, click  Anyone can be an Information Manager, Right? Why Information Management Professionals are Vital to the Strategic Business Plan

Katelynd Bucher received her BA in history from Penn State University. She is currently enrolled in the Master of Library and Information Science program  and the Archives and Records Management Advanced Certificate programs  at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University, with a concentration in Rare Books and Special Collections. Before beginning her Masters degree, Katelynd was a Bednar intern and later a processing assistant at the Penn State University Archives. Her interests lie in electronic records, digital and special collections, and archival studies. To review a sample of her current research, click The Evolution of Web 2.0 and its Effect on Records and Information Managment

Bolton Doub (Bo) has a BA (Hons.) in Sociology and Legal Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is currently enrolled in the Master of Library & Information Studies (MLIS) at the University of California, Los Angeles with a dual specialization in Informatics and Archival Studies. Bo is interested in the differing scales of digital records management: the contrast of unique personal practices with the need for larger, more standardized record-keeping strategies. He also studies digital preservation and data management in academic settings. To review a sample of his current research, click Digital Records Management in Overlapping Environments: Reconcilng the Personal with the Professional in Performance Documentation

Dan Gillean holds a Joint Honours Bachelor's Degree in English Literature and Creative Writing, and is currently pursuing Masters degrees in Archival Studies and Library Science at the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Dan hopes to complete his degrees by August 2013.  He is particularly interested in the changing role of information professionals. To review a sample of his current research, click The Consequences of Ignoring Records Management

Jana Leigh Grazley holds a B.A. in Linguistics and a diploma in Intercultural Education and Training from the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Archival Studies at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests centre on the concept of the record, with emphasis on the management of non-prototypical audiovisual records such as performance documentation, installation and exhibition documentation, and documentation of public events and programming. Coming to the field from a non-profit background, she also has a strong interest in exploring real-world implementation of responsible records management in under-funded or over-stretched organizations, and tremendous enthusiasm to use the skills she is currently acquiring in the MAS program to assist organizations in need, locally and internationally. 

Michael Grutchfield  earned a BA degree af The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.   He is in his second year in the School of Library, Archival & Information Studies at the University of British Columbia, with a dual major.  He added the second major when he came to appreciate the intellectual challenges that are presented to records managers and decided on a career in the field.  To review a sample of his current research, click Retention Schedules and the Law: A Believable Defense?

Thomas Jackman Tom Jackman holds a BA in History from the University of Puget Sound, as well as an MA in History and Public Policy from George Washington University. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Archival Studies at the University of British Columbia. His professional background in public policy has led him to research the ways in which archival and records management theory can be applied pragmatically. He believes the profession’s overemphasis on idealistic and complex models, particularly with relation to the digital environment, create unnecessary barriers to the effective curation and preservation of electronic records. To review a sample of his current research, click Activist Archivists and the Limits of Postmodern Thought

Laura Markiewicz earned a BA in European History from Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. She is pursuing a Masters in Library and Information Studies at McGill University in Montreal, where she is specializing in Knowledge Management and researching the application of knowledge continuity strategies within religious orders. She is the winner of the Leadership Scholarship. 

Nora Mattern  is in her second year of the doctoral program at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Information Sciences. She earned a BA from Lehigh University and a MA in Museum Studies from Syracuse University and has worked at the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum in Scranton, PA and the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, CT.  Nora’s research interests are focused in the areas of cultural heritage, memory studies, and archival ethics. She began the doctoral program at the University of Pittsburgh as a student of the Working Memory initiative, which provides students with the opportunity to engage in a study of cultural and scientific memory through a series of seminars. At Pitt, Nora is examining the role of documentation in cultural heritage disputes and seeking to identify how decolonization, war, and changes in political boundaries have led to archival restitution claims.  On a domestic level, Nora has a particular interest in the government’s use of replevin to retrieve public records that are in private hands and is currently engaged in research to learn of federal and state practices to recover these records. It is in the area of replevin that Nora plans to focus her dissertation work.orders. She is the winner of the Mavis Eppes FAI Scholarship.  To review a sample of her current research, click Replevin and the Recovery of Public Records in the United States

• Cherri Ann Beckles is currently pursuing a PhD in Archives and Information Studies at the University of Dundee, Scotland.  Her research topic examines international privacy/data protection regimes from a records and archives management perspective.  She is the Assistant Archivist at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.  Mrs. Beckles received a B.A.Degree with Honors from The University of the West Indies (UWI), a Master's Degree in Records and Archives Management (International) from the University College London and a Masters Degree from UWI in History. To review a sample of her current research, click International Perspectives on Data Protection and its Relationship to Records Management in the Post-Industrial Period 
• Jennifer Borland  is enrolled in the Joint Master of Archival Studies and Master of Library and Information Studies at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia in Canada. She has served as the co-president of the Library and Archival Studies Students Association, is working as a Graduate Research Assistant on the InterPARES 3 Project, and is also working in a cooperative education position at British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority. Jennifer is interested the management and the long-term preservation of digital records, recordkeeping metadata, and she is particularly interested in the role of trust within the records profession. She will complete her degrees in April 2010. To review a sample of her research work, click Trust and the Records Professional 
• Matthew Grant, recipient of the first Mavis Eppes scholarship, is a Masters of Science in Information candidate in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He is pursuing dual majors specializing in Archives and Records Management and Incentive-Centered Design and will receive his degree in December, 2010. He also is employed at the Rackham Graduate School as a Business Systems Analyst where he is working on an enterprise content management solution using Microsoft SharePoint. He is very interested in understanding how business processes and the resulting records can be managed and captured in an efficient system while providing end users with the proper incentives to effectively and ethically use those systems.  To review a sample of his research work, click "If You Aren't Cheating, You Aren't Trying": Building Environments for Accountability and Mitigating Manipulation of Information Asymmetires Through Effective Records-Keeping, An Enron Case-Study 

2008 Scholarship Awardees

2007 Scholarship Awardees

• Ineke Deserno is a PhD candidate at the Caulfield School of  Information Technology, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.  Her research and dissertation is focused on the nexus between corporate transparency and records management in multinational companies.   An overview of her research project was presented at the October 2007 ARMA International Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.  Click The Nexus Between Transparency and Records Management to review an update to this study.
• Sherry Li Xie is a PhD candidate at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada..  Her work is focused on electronic records management and the long-term preservaton of digital information including participation in the InterPARES (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) project.  She recently presented a paper at the iPRES 2007 conference in Beijing, China.  To review her presentation, click Foundation for Developing Digital Preservation Policy: The InterPARES Policy Framework.  Her research includes a study of function based classifications systems.  Click Function-Based Records Classification System: A Comparative Study to review the study.

2006 Scholarship Awardees