I’m excited to announce my recent co-authored article with Ashley Blewer on the preservation of video game memory cards. The article is titled “Each character you create requires a full 15 blocks!” Preserving Video Game Memory Cards in the Age of Cloud Storage is featured in a special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication on “Containg Games.” It is a culmination of teaching and research we have both done, circulating this topic. You can read the article here.

I am excited to announce my new article in the special issue of Synoptique on “Teaching Media Archives,” which is titled ‘In A Way I’m Coming Out to All of You Tonight’: Activist Media, Digital Curation Pedagogy, and the Future of Queer Archives. As part of this publication, I will also be speaking on a panel for the special issue’s release at AMIA Baltimore. I hope to see you there. Meanwhile, you can check the article out here.

I’m excited to announce a new co-authored article with ali harding a doctoral student in the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. The article titled “Remember, Love Knows No Boundaries and Comes in Many Forms”: The Conceptualization of Queerness within AI-Generated Fan Works is out in Transformative Works and Culture. In the article, we explore how an early iteration of ChatGPT conceptualizes queerness across both canonically and non-canonically queer franchises with an emphasis on how prompts asking for fan ficiton only evoke queerness when prompted and otherwise depict relationships as heterosexual. You can read the article here.

I will be presenting on a panel foucsing on “Teaching Media Archives” in December at the Association of Moving Image Archivists in Baltimore, Maryland. This will be in addition to a forthcoming special issue of Synoptique. Details forthcoming!

Pleased to announce two new articles out in Archival Science. The first is led by Katrina Fenlon at the University of Maryland and explores models for community collaboration in digital archives projects.

The second article is led by me and focuses on how archivists working with LGBTQIA+ materials create, manage, and maintain finding aids. You can check out Dr. Fenlon’s article here and my article here.

I’m excited to announced that I will be a member of the 2025-2026 OpEd Project Public Voice Fellows fro the University of Illinios. In this fellowship I will learn to approach scholarship in a more public facing wa through wrting opinion editorials. I am excited to use this time to explore more vocally tensions between the erasure of queer data and more historiographic tensions between queerness and institutional inclusion. You can learn more about the project here.

I’m excited to announce my new article co-authored with University of Illinois MLIS student Katie Higley titled “I like the narrative of curating what we watch”: The Curatorial Worlds of Retroconversion Artists. Which looks at creatives who convert contemporary media onto older formats such as VHS tapes and older generation video game cartridges. To find out more check out the article here.

I am excited to announce that I am this year’s recipient of the 2025 LGBTQ Collections Fellowship offered by the 2025 Stuart A. Rose Library at Emory University. As part of this fellowship, I will spend time in Atlanta this summer studying the production artifacts associated with Network Q, a public access show focused on LGBTQIA+ issues. This fellowship will involve a public blog post through their special collections and alongside this I hope to share findings at a few media history and archival science conferences.

Last week, my colleague Emily Maemura presented our co-authored research titled “‘Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep’: A Thematic Analysis of Data Hoarding as Digital Curation Practice” at iConference 2025 in Bloomington, Indiana. Our short paper, from which the presentation was derived, was also nominated as one of the best short papers at the conference. Feel free to read the paper here.

I’m am excited to announce that I will be joining a panel at iConference exploring the emerging topic of “slow information behavior and practices.” The panel is organized by Dr. Clara Chu and is titled “Disrupting the Algorithm: The Slow Information Movement (SIM) and Implications for Slow Information Behavior and Practice (SIBP) Research.” If you are attending iConference please consider joining us!