Ellen Engseth, she/her/hers Curator and Head

Email: eengseth@umn.edu
Phone: 612-625-0553
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3942-288X
Experts: Experts@UMN

Full position title(s): Curator, Immigration History Research Center Archives and Head, Migration and Social Services Collections
Libraries department: Migration and Social Services Collections

About

As head of the Migration and Social Services Collections within Archives and Special Collections, I work with four archives (the Immigration History Research Center Archives, the Kautz Family YMCA Archives, the Social Welfare History Archives, and the Upper Midwest Jewish Archives) with collaborative staff and projects, and our complementary collections. As Curator of the Immigration History Research Center Archives, I work primarily with community, donor relations and fundraising, collection development, and in instruction and other forms of outreach such as exhibits, public events, digital and publishing projects.

Education

Master of Library and Information Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Master of Arts in History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Selected awards and grants

American Association for State and Local History Award of Merit, for the exhibit "People on the Move: 50 Years of Documenting and Researching Migration Experiences at the Immigration History Research Center & Archives" (co-curator)

American Association for State and Local History’s Award of Merit, for the March on Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project (team member)

Archives Leadership Institute

International Travel grant, Global Programs and Strategy Alliance, University of Minnesota

Professional Development Leave Award, University of Minnesota Libraries

Society of American Archivists Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award, for the March on Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project (team member)

Strategic Digitization Grants, University of Minnesota Libraries

(Wisconsin) Governor’s Award for Archival Achievement, for the March on Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project (team member)

Service to professional organizations

International Council on Archives University and Research Institutions (ICA-SUV) Section Bureau, Member

Midwest Archives Conference Nominating Committee, Chair

Midwest Archives Conference Program Committee, Chair

Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting Program Committee, Member

Society of American Archivists College & University Archives Section Steering Committee, Chair

Society of American Archivists Hamer Kegan Award Committee, Chair

Society of American Archivists International Archival Affairs Section Steering Committee, Chair

Society of American Archivists Publications Board, Member

Southeastern Wisconsin Archives Group, Co-Chair

Selected presentations and publications

Reading a House as an Archive, paper presented at the International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (ICHORA) and the Forum for Archives and Records Management Education and Research (FARMER), hosted at The National Archives (England and Wales), 2022.

"Making and Tracing Marks: the Country House as a Living Archive." Archives and Records 44:3 (2023). Co-authored with Daniel Bochman. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23257962.2023.2248028

"Engaging with global at the local: Developing equity, diversity and inclusion through international education experiences." In Choi, Yunseon, and Meghan Harper. "Proceedings of the Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference: ALISE 2021." (2021): 278 279. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/110975

“Global Competency and International Mindedness in LIS Education.” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 64 no. 2 (2023). Advance Access published 2021. Open access copy available at https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/225837

"Cultural Competency and Archival Appraisal,"
presentation at the International Council on Archives - Section on University and Research Institution Archives annual conference, Dundee, Scotland 2019. z.umn.edu/Engseth-ICA

"Collaboration Across Borders, or Piiride-ülene Koostöö: Estonians and Americans Working Together Towards Accessible Archival Collections." Journal of Library Administration 59:5 (2019): 565-577. DOI: 10.1080/01930826.2019.1616972. Co-authored with Gristel Ramler. Open access version available at http://hdl.handle.net/11299/206573

"Maximizing Assets and Access through Digital Publishing: Opportunities and Implications for Special Collections," in New Top Technologies that Every Librarian Needs to Know, ed. Kenneth J. Varnum (Chicago: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2019), pp. 167-178. Co-authored with Marguerite Ragnow. Pre-print available at http://hdl.handle.net/11299/202317

"Cultural Competency: A Framework for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Archival Profession in the United States." The American Archivist Fall/Winter 2018, Vol. 81, No. 2, pp. 460-482. Open access version available at http://hdl.handle.net/11299/201542

“Mathilde Franziska Giesler Anneke,” Encyclopedia of Milwaukee, 2017. https://emke.uwm.edu/entry/mathilde-franziska-anneke/

“Caroline Quarlls,” Encyclopedia of Milwaukee, 2017. https://emke.uwm.edu/entry/caroline-quarlls/