Peter Botticelli

Associate Professor and Director, Cultural Heritage Informatics Concentration

Peter Botticelli has a doctorate in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MSI degree with a concentration in archives and records management from the University of Michigan School of Information. His most recent position was at University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science, where he directed the school's Digital Information Management (DigIn) graduate certificate program. Previously, he held research positions at Cornell University Library, the University of Michigan, and Harvard Business School. He has taught graduate courses on digital libraries, digital curation, scholarly communication, and digital preservation and has published research in history and archival studies.
 

Courses

  • LIS 441 Appraisal of Archives and Manuscripts
  • LIS 448 Digital Stewardship
  • LIS 477 Digital Asset Management for Libraries, Archives and Museums 
     

Shout-outs from Students and Alums

Tomb effigy for Eleanor of Aquitaine (d. 1204) at Fontrevaud Abbey, France. Wikimedia Commons.

Diana Myers ’24MS Aspires to Increase Access to Medieval Archives

Graduate student Diana Myers is pursuing a Master’s in Library Science and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management. She plans to combine her archival experience with her research on medieval Europe to facilitate the public’s access to rare, premodern materials.


Shealynn Hendry ’21MS

Shealynn Hendry ’21MS Wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship for PhD

Shealynn Hendry ’21MS, a graduate of the dual degree in Archives Management and History (MS/MA) at Simmons, has won the Gates Cambridge Scholarship to attend the University of Cambridge, UK, for her PhD in History. Tell us about your studies...