Current Members
Nazelie Doghramadjian is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information. Her research focuses on intellectual choices made in the Armenian community in the United States when preserving their records and their impact on academic archives and special collections. She works with community stakeholders, scholars, and practitioners alike. She holds a B.A. in Humanities from Villanova University. Her work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals and juried proceedings such as Archival Science on Armenian women's archives, and the Association for Library and Information Science Education on personal archival stewardship. She has presented her work on archival silences, narrative approaches to recordkeeping, and best principles for working with diaspora archives at several conferences in the archival, American, and Armenian studies fields. Before starting graduate school, Nazelie worked for a variety of non-profit organizations including Data & Society Research Institute, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, and A Better Tech NYU.
Rachel Huang (she/hers) is a Senior Project Manager at ICPSR, managing research projects related to data curation and archiving and assisting researchers throughout the data archiving lifecycle in the social sciences, from initial deposit to public dissemination. She leads a team of Project Managers and manages a portfolio of federally and state-funded projects, drawing on experience in nonprofit administration and field research. Rachel holds a BA in Psychology from Michigan State University. She is a first-year graduate student at the University of Michigan's School of Information, specializing in Library, Archives, and Knowledge Environments.
Katherine Polasek is a recent graduate from the University of Michigan Masters of Science in Information program. Her research focuses on censorship and information access.
Past Members
Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2025 - Winter 2026
Berkley Sorrells (she/her) is a first year MSI graduate student in the University of Michigan School of Information in the Libraries, Archives, and Knowledge Environments in Society pathway. Prior to starting her MSI, she served for two years as an Americorps member college adviser outside of Detroit with the MSU College Advising Corps. She graduated from Michigan State University in 2022 with a degree from the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) and History, where she worked extensively in the MSU Museum collections and education offices and in MSU Libraries. Her research in the MSU Museum's Cultural Collections, alongside museum curator and folklorist Dr. Marsha MacDowell, is published in the 2023 American Quilt Studies Journal.
Stephanie Krueger, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2023 - 2025
Stephanie Krueger is a scholar and researcher affiliated with the Berliner Hochschule für Technik, the Czech National Library of Technology, and Czech Technical University in Prague.
Monique St. Hilaire
Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2023 - Winter 2024
MSIS student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Timothy Poteet
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Summer 2023
Undergraduate student in the Data Science program at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Ammar Mustufa
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Summer 2023
Undergraduate student in the Data Science program at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Jessica Wylie
Graduate Student Research Assistant, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023
MSIS student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Maricia Mende
Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2020 - 2022
BA student at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science (Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Laura Rothfritz
Doctoral Student Research Assistant, 2020 - 2022
Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/WiMi) and doctoral student at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science (Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.