Jeannette Bastian began teaching at Simmons in 1999. Formerly Territorial Librarian of the United States Virgin Islands from 1987 to 1998, she received her MLS from Shippensburg University, an M.Phil in Caribbean Literature from the University of the West Indies (Mona) and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include archival education, memory, community archives, and postcolonialism.
She is widely published in the archival literature and her books include West Indian Literature, An Index to Criticism, 1930-1975 (1981) Owning Memory, How a Caribbean Community Lost Its Archives and Found Its History (2003), Archival Internships (2008), and Community Archives, The Shaping of Memory (2009).
Courses
- LIS 401 Foundations of Library and Information Science
- LIS 438 Introduction to Archival Methods and Services
- LIS 441 Appraisal of Archives and Manuscripts
- LIS 442 Establishing Archives and Manuscript Programs
- LIS 443 Archives, History and Collective Memory
Jeannette Bastian in the News
Translating Social Responsibility into Archival Education
Archival experts from around the world to speak at Allen Smith Symposium 2019. Over the past decade, archival concerns have increasingly focused on social issues as records professionals recognize and confront the responsibilities and challenges of documenting a complex global...
Shout-outs from Students and Alums
SLIS Alumnus Helps Archive Art History at MoMA
Jonathan Lill ’03MS is Head of Metadata and Systems at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Archives, Library, and Research Collections (ALRC). We spoke with him about his multifaceted career, the essential training he received at Simmons, and the rewards of his profession.
Derek Mosley Selected as Fellow of the Society of American Archivists
An archivist and division manager at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Mosley has dedicated his career to the preservation of Black history, thereby increasing awareness of and access to the documentation of Black history and culture in the nation's archives.