Caitlin Christian-Lamb

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice

PhD: Information Studies, University of Maryland (in progress)

Master's Degree(s): MS in Library and Information Science, Simmons College, 2013

MA in History, Simmons College, 2013

Caitlin Christian-Lamb is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in the School of Library & Information Science at Louisiana State University. She is also a doctoral candidate in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. Her dissertation focuses on social and reparative justice initiatives in academic archival settings, particularly in terms of gaps between published theory and practice, universities as racialized organizations, and the role of the individual archivist within a larger organization. After receiving her BA in History from Purchase College, State University of New York, she earned an MS in Library and Information Science and an MA in History from Simmons College. Before joining LSU, Caitlin previously held positions as an instructor of record at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies, as the Digital Archivist of Davidson College, as a Project Producer for the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and as a Research Associate on the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Adams Papers Editorial Project. She has served on the editorial board of dh+lib, the foremost publication on the intersection of digital humanities and libraries, since 2015.

Courses

LIS 7004: Management of Information Organizations

LIS 7009: Understanding Research

LIS 7408: Introduction to Archival Theory, Principles & Practice

LIS 7505: Introduction to Digital Curation

LIS 7703: Advanced Seminar in Archival Studies

LIS 7704: Archival Arrangement and Description

Research Areas

Archives and Archival Theory; Social Justice; Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics; Collective Memory; Digital Humanities; Organizational Studies; Community Archives

Sayed, M. F., Cox, W., Rivera, J.L., Christian-Lamb, C., Iqbal, M., Oard, D.W., and Shilton, K. (2020). A Test Collection for Relevance and Sensitivity. In SIGIR ’20: Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Taylor, N.G., Christian-Lamb, C., Martin, M.H., and Nardi, B. (eds.). (2019). Information in Contemporary Society: 14th International Conference, iConference 2019, Washington, DC, USA, March 31–April 3, 2019, Proceedings. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Christian-Lamb, C, and Shrout, A.H. (2017) ‘Starting From Scratch’? Workshopping New Directions in Undergraduate Digital Humanities. In Digital Humanities Quarterly: Imagining the DH Undergraduate special issue 11.3.

Potvin, S., Padilla, T., Christian-Lamb, C. (2016). Digital Humanities In the Library / Of the Library. In dh+lib 2016 Special Issue (2016).

Christian-Lamb, C. and Sikes, S. (2015). How Did They Make That?: Adams Timeline. In DHCommons Issue 1 (2015).

Selected Presentations

Christian-Lamb, Caitlin. “’It’s About Who’s Been Missing’: Investigating Gaps between Theory and Practice of Social, Reparative, and Restorative Justice Work in Academic Archives.” The Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI) 2022 virtual conference, July 2022.

Roeschley, Ana, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Jessica Holden, and Harvey Long, “Representing Survivors of Violence in College and University Archives.” ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2018: Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA), National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA), and the Society of American Archivists (SAA), Washington, DC, August 2018.

Oard, Doug W., Katie Shilton, and Caitlin Christian-Lamb. “Safe Search Among Sensitive Content: Investigating Archivist and Donor Conceptions of Privacy, Secrecy, and Access” . ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2018: Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA), National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA), and the Society of American Archivists (SAA), Washington, DC, August 2018.

Skallerup Bessette, Lee, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Kristen Eshleman, Benjamin Schaeffer, Siobhan Senier, and Paul Youngman (August 2017). “Sustaining and Scaling the Digital Liberal Arts.” Digital Humanities 2017, Montréal, Canada.

Christian-Lamb, Caitlin, Jeannette Bastian, Chelsea Gunn, Aaisha Haykal, Kelly Kietur, and David Staniunas (July 2017). “I Do Not Think it Means What You Think it Means: Differing Conceptions of the Archive.” ARCHIVES 2017: alike/different, Portland, OR.

Venlet, Jessica, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Brian Dietz, Valerie Gillispie, and Nicholas Graham (March 2017). “Social Media Archiving: Documenting Community Reflections and Reactions.” Society of North Carolina Archivists Annual Conference, Asheville, NC.

Morris, Sammie L., Christina Bleyer, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Kate Donovan, Tracy B. Grimm, Mark Levitt, Cinda Nofzinger, Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh, Jason Speck, Heather Stecklein, Anne Turkos, and Joshua Cobbs Youngblood (August 2016). “Embedded Archivists: Exploring New Depths in Teaching with Primary Sources.” ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2016, the Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and the Society of American Archivists, Atlanta, GA.

Christian-Lamb, Caitlin, Caitlin Brennecke, Kelsey Duinkerken, Jessica Holden, and Anne Morgan (August 2015). “You Do What? Non-Traditional Outreach that Works.” ARCHIVES 2015: the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, Cleveland, OH (write-up in Archival Outlook September/October 2015, page 16).

Christian-Lamb, Caitlin, Amy Ciesielski, Skip Elsheimer, Chelcie Rowell, and Steve Villereal (March 2015). “Reel History: Home Movie Days Hosted by Cultural Heritage Institutions.” Society of North Carolina Archivists Annual Conference, Greenville, NC.

Blodgett, Jan, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, and Craig Milberg (June 2014). “Curriculum Driven: A Liberal Arts College Archives Path to Digital Humanities.” Data Driven: Digital Humanities in the Library, Charleston, SC.

Selected Grants/Funded Projects

Principal Investigator, “Davidson College Archives and Special Collections Comprehensive Preservation Plans,” Preservation Assistance Grant for Smaller Institutions, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2016 – 2017.

Co-Principal Investigator (with Rachel Walton, Charlotte, Nunes, and Jason W. Dean), “True Stories,” Faculty Advancement Grant, Associated Colleges of the South, 2016 – 2017.

Professional/Community Services

Peer reviewer, Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, October 2020 - present.

Review Editor, dh+lib, May 2015 – present.

Doctoral Student Representative, iSchool Assembly, University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. September 2020 – September 2021.

Conference proposal reviewer, Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), February 2020 – March 2021.

Proceedings Assistant Chair, iConference 2019, May 2018 – April 2019.

Co-Chair, Society of American Archivists Standards Committee, August 2016 – August 2018.

Ex Officio, Society of American Archivists Technical Subcommittee on Guidelines for Reappraisal and Deaccessioning (TS-GRD), October 2014 – August 2018.

Member, Society of American Archivists Standards Committee, August 2014 – August 2016.

“Roadie”/ Volunteer, Mass Memories Road Show at University of Massachusetts Boston. May 2013 – October 2013:

Awards and Honors

International Conference Student Support Award, The Graduate School, University of Maryland, June 2018.

Dean’s Fellowship, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, 2017 – 2018.

Bursary Award, New Scholars Seminar in Digital Humanities at DH2017, Kule Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Alberta, CHCI, and centerNet, August 2017.

ACH/HASTAC Bursary Award, HASTAC 2015, May 2015.

DLF/CLIR + ER&L Cross-Pollinator Travel Award, Electronic Resources & Libraries 10th Anniversary Conference, February 2015.

Award for Excellence in Thesis Research and Writing (for “Going Down in History: The Collective Memory of the Titanic”), Graduate Program in History, Simmons College, May 2013.

Links

Visit Professor Christian-Lamb’s Website

Twitter: @christianlamb