I would like to talk about controversial materials such as KKK documents that need to be digitized from Cushing’s collections. I also have some radical movements’ documents that I would like help working through issues of copyright, but I would love to have digitized for wider access.
About Rebecca Hankins
I am an Associate Professor and a certified archivist at Texas A&M University. My previous employment included 12 years as senior archivist at The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University in New Orleans and two years as Assistant Librarian at the University of Arizona’s Special Collections in Tucson, Arizona. My expertise and areas of interest include building collections and scholarly resources for the study of the African Diaspora, Women & Gender Studies, Race & Ethnic Studies, and Arabic Language and Culture. I have taught courses on the use of primary sources in research, presented at numerous venues, and published in science fiction, library, archival, and other peer-reviewed journals.
