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Joel A. Blanco-Rivera is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences. His research interests are the study of the relation between archives and transitional justice in Latin America, government accountability, government secrecy, and social memory. He has an MSI with specialization in archive and records management from the School of Information at the University of Michigan. From 2004 to 2005 he was a lecturer at the University of Puerto Rico's Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies where he taught courses for the certificate in archives and records management. His dissertation research is a case study of the work of the National Security Archive in the context of transitional justice in Latin America. It focuses on the efforts of this organization to obtain U.S. declassified records for investigations about past human rights violations in Latin America. He will be teaching in the Archives area at Simmons beginning in Spring 2012.
Full-Time Faculty
- Naresh Agarwal
- Jeannette Allis Bastian
- Gerald Benoit
- Joel Blanco-Rivera
- Linda Braun
- Michèle V. Cloonan
- Ross Harvey
- Peter Hernon
- Lisa Hussey
- Mary Wilkins Jordan
- Daniel N. Joudrey
- Melanie Kimball
- Martha Mahard
- James M. Matarazzo
- Rebecca Morris
- Amy Pattee
- Robin Peek
- Laura Saunders
- Candy Schwartz
- Rong Tang
- Donna Webber
- Andrew Whitmore
- Katherine Wisser
- Fran Zilonis