EMILY ECKSTRAND

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign- MLIS/ Professional Archivist & Research Librarian

List of posts

  • Imperial Image (& the Archive)

    . . . This Spring, buttressed between two library conferences, I was able to catch my breath for a moment to experience the exhibition, “Not All Realisms: Photography, Africa, and The Long 1960s”, at the Smart Museum of Art- University of Chicago, and I am so grateful I did. This exhibition captures the ethos of

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  • Revisiting Project Breadbasket: As a Roadmap to Sowing the Seeds for Food Sovereignty, Economic Power & Self-determination NOW

    (L to R) Rev. Dr. Janette C. Wilson, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Betty Massoni, 02.08.2024 . . . Jackson Oral History Project/ Operation Breadbasket Event 2024 Following Chicago’s long tradition of oral histories, the Chicago Theological Seminary has produced an oral history project on the city’s Civil Rights Movement — an archival work about Operation Breadbasket.

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  • The Rev. Jesse Jackson Oral History Project:

    . . . Photo Credit: Emory University Library . . . This past year I was tapped to assist in the digitization, preservation and access of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Oral History Archives and Project. This project has been presented in partnership with the Chicago History Museum (CHM) and the Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS). It

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  • ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!

    Viva Puerto Rico Libre – Ghetto Brothers. . . . I am honored to be welcomed as part of the team for The Digitizing El Barrio Archives at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center (PPRC), as an archival intern. This archives has been a dream decades in the making for PRCC. It was made possible with

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  • Symbiosis: Systemic Medicine for Archivists & Activists

    . . . To build upon my prior exposition, on the Ethics of Care in archives, how do we confront our failure of care around the heritage of communities traditionally diminished in our archives? How do we address the diversity (or lack thereof) in our historical records? As police brutality and extrajudicial executions allude, who

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  • Emergent Response: Archival Ethics of Care

    . . . When many people think of an archive and the role of an archivist,  they envision a gatekeeping municipal worker tasked with rows of dusty archival boxes in official  buildings, usually  inaccessible to the public. Let me begin by shattering the archives praxis of power mythology. My professional archival career developed in the

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  • To Go Beyond: “Transformación”

    . . . Although ARLIS/NA has been holding annual North American conferences for 51 years, this marks the first time it has been in Mexico. Mexico City is often lauded as having more museums than any other city in the world. While this figure is highly contested,  it is evident in the generous art and

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