VITAE KELVIN L. WHITE Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Studies University of Oklahoma, Norman 401 W. Brooks, Bizzell Library, Room 120 Norman, OK 73019.6032 Voice: 405.325.3921 Fax: 405.325.7648 Email: kwhite@ou.edu EDUCATION Ph.D., Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles M.A., Afro-American Studies (Focus: African American History) University of California, Los Angeles B.A., History Texas Southern University TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2008-PRES School of Library and Information Studies University of Oklahoma PUBLICATIONS Courses Taught: Archival Concepts and Traditions Information Users in the Knowledge Society (Information Behavior) Archival Appraisal Information and Knowledge Society Community Relations and Advocacy White, Kelvin L. Ethnic Studies as a Theoretical Framework for Archival and Recordkeeping Research. Invited book chapter in Research in the Archival Multiverse, (under final review, expected publication Dec 2013, Monash University Press).
White, Kelvin L. The Role of Culture in Recordkeeping Infrastructures (under revision). Archives and Manuscripts White, Kelvin L. and Richardson, Julieannna. The HistoryMakers: A Case Study of Diversity, Trust, and the Archive (in preparation). Archival Issues White, Kelvin L. Remembrance in the Costa Chica: Identity, Landscape, and the Archive (in preparation). Journal of Pan-African Studies. White, K. "From archival universe to archival multiverse." In C. Knobel, G. Bowker, R. Larsen, & J. Seberger (Eds.), Emerging configurations of knowledge expression: A digital report of a National Science Foundation workshop on "emerging configurations of the virtual and the real." Chicago, IL. 2012. NSF Grant #1042697. Available online only at: http://econfigs.ics.uci.edu/# (2012) Pluralizing the Archival Curriculum Group, Archival Education and Research Institute, "Educating for the Archival Multiverse," American Archivist 74: Spring/Summer 2011. White, Kelvin. Documentos no textuales i record en comunitats afro-mexicano. ( Nontextual Records and Remembering in Afro-Mexican Communities ). In proceedings of 6 th annual meeting of Associació d'arxivers i Gestors de Documents Valencians (Association of Valencian Achivists and Records Managers), Valencia, Spain, 2010. White, Kelvin, and Anne Gilliland. Promoting Reflexivity and Inclusivity in Archival Education, Research and Practice. Library Quarterly Vol. 80 (3) July 2010. (Best paper award at i-conference 2009). White, Kelvin L. Meztizaje and Remembering in Afro-Mexican Communities of the Costa Chica: Implications for Archival Education in Mexico, Archival Science. Vol. 9 Issue 1-2 2009. White, Kelvin, and June Abbas. Capturing a Plurality of Perspectives: A Framework for Developing Culturally Sensitive Curriculum and Digital Repositories. In Proceedings of the Digital Curation Conference (DigCCurr) held in Chapel Hill, NC, 2009. Gilliland, Anne, and Kelvin White. Perpetuating and Extending the Archival Paradigm: The Historical and Contemporary Roles of Professional Education and Pedagogy. Interactions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies no. 5(1), 2009. Gilliland, Anne, and Kelvin White. Digital Recordkeeping in Support of Social Inclusion in an e-society. In Proceedings of the International Association for the Page 2 of 9
Development of the Information Society (IADIS) conference held in Barcelona, Spain, 2009. Gilliland-Swetland, Andrew Lau, Yang Lu, Sue McKemmish, Shilpa Rele, and Kelvin White. Pluralizing the Archival Paradigm through Education: Critical Discussions around the Pacific Rim. Archives and Manuscripts. Vol. 35 Issue 2, 2008. Gilliland, A., Kelvin White, Yang Lu, and Andrew Lau. Pluralizing the Archival Paradigm: Can Archival Education in the Pacific Rim Communities Address the Challenge? The American Archivist. Vol. 71 Issue 2, 2008. Gilliland-Swetland, Anne, Kelvin White, and Yang Lu. 2006. "Pluralizing the Archival Paradigm: A Needs Assessment for Archival Education in Pacific Rim Communities." In Proceedings of the Second Asia-Pacific Conference for Archival Educators in the Electronic Age held in Tokyo 18-19 October 2006, by the International Council of Archives, 112-122. Tokyo, Japan. White, Kelvin. 2005. Review of Unfinished Business: Race, Equity, and Diversity in Library and Information Science Education, edited by Maurice B. Wheeler. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies. Vol. 1, Issue 2, Article 15. INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS Keynote Address White, Kelvin L. Non-textuality and Remembering in Afro-Mexican Communities. Invited keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Records Management Association of Australasia (RMAA) (InForum 2010). Gold Coast, Australia. August 2010. A modified version of this keynote was also presented postconvention seminars in Melbourne, Australia and Wellington, New Zealand. Invited Lectures White, Kelvin L. Charting Your Course: Critical Pedagogy and Cultural Consciousness in Archival Education Environments. Invited lecture at the Conference and School on Records, Archives, and Memory Studies. University of Zadar. Croatia, May 2013. White, Kelvin L. Archival Approaches to Remembering, Forgetting, and Excavating Memory. Invited lecture at the Conference and School on Records, Archives, and Memory Studies. University of Zadar. Croatia May 2013. White, Kelvin L. "Meztizaje and Remembering in Afro-Mexican Communities of the Costa Chica: Identity, Forgetting, and the Archive" Invited presentation at the University of Oklahoma s Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability Colloquium. October 2012. Page 3 of 9
White, Kelvin L. The Role of Knowledge Infrastructures in Promoting Inclusive Archives and Participatory Democracies Invited presentation at the International Conference of Korean Democracy. Seoul, South Korea May 2012. White, Kelvin L. Ethnic Studies as a Theoretical Framework for Archival and Recordkeeping Research. Invited presentation at the UCLA Department of Information Studies Colloquium. March 2012. White, Kelvin. "From Archival Universe to Archival Multiverse". Invited presentation at an NSF workshop, New Configurations of the Virtual and the Material. Chicago. March 2011. White, Kelvin. The Role of the Archive in Society. Invited presentation at the Southwest Oklahoma Genealogy Association. Lawton,OK. 2011 White, Kelvin L. The Role of Culture in Recordkeeping Infrastructure: Developing Culturally Relevant Archives in a Pluralist Society. Invited paper given at the International Conference in Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Department of Information and Archival Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) Seoul, Korea, November 2010. White, Kelvin. El papel del profesional de la información en la recuperación de la Memoria. (The Role of LIS Professionals in Remembering the Past ). Invited paper given at a symposium sponsored by the Asociación Profesional de Especialisticas en Infromaticion, Emabajada de los Estados Unidos en Espana, y la Associació d'arxivers i Gestors de Documents Valencians (Professional Association of Librarians, Embassy of the United States in Spain, and the Association of Valencian Achivists and Records Managers), Gijon, Spain, 2010. White, Kelvin. Documentos no textuales i record en comunitats afro-mexicano. ( Nontextual Records and Remembering in Afro-Mexican Communities ). Invited paper given at the 6 th annual meeting of Associació d'arxivers i Gestors de Documents Valencians (Association of Valencian Achivists and Records Managers), Valencia, Spain, 2010. White, Kelvin. Exploring the Politics of the Production and Transmission of Knowledge in the Archives. Invited presentation at the Pembroke Center's Feminist Theory Papers Colloquium, Brown University, Providence Rhode Island, 2010. White, Kelvin. Imagine if We Wrote our Own History. Invited panel member at the Red Dirt Book Festival (sponsored by the Oklahoma Humanities Council), Shawnee, OK, 2009. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS White, Kelvin L. Information Needs of Historians of Women s History. Paper Page 4 of 9
presented at the 2013 Western Association of Western History (WAWH) Conference. Portland, Oregon. May 16-18, 2013. White, Kelvin L. African Americans and the Archival Profession: Evolving Perceptions of Diversity. Society of American Archivists (SAA) Annual Conference. San Diego. August 2012. White, Kelvin L. Collaborating to Create New Knowledge. Archival Research, Education, and Practice (AREP) Forum. Brisbane, Australia. August 2012. White, Kelvin. Developing culturally sensitive frameworks for archival education curricula for Indigenous populations. Paper presented at the International Council on Archive s Section of Archival Educators Seminar, St. Julians, Malta, 2009. White, Kelvin. Sustaining the Global and Local Archival Profession through Reconceptualized Education. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archivists, Austin, TX, 2009. White, Kelvin. Processes of Remembering in Afro-Mexican Communities. Paper presented at the Archival Educators Research Institute (AERI), UCLA, CA, 2009. White, Kelvin. Promoting Reflexivity and Inclusivity in Archival Education, Research and Practice. Paper presented at the i-conference annual meeting, University of Chapel Hill, NC 2009. White, Kelvin, and June Abbas. Capturing a Plurality of Perspectives: A Framework for Developing Culturally Sensitive Curriculum and Digital Repositories. Paper presented at the Digital Curation (DigCCurr) conference, Chapel Hill, NC, 2009. White, Kelvin. Digital Recordkeeping in Support of Social Inclusion in an e-society Paper presented at the International Association for the Development of the Information Society (IADIS) conference, Barcelona, Spain 2009. White, Kelvin. Mestizaje and Remembering in Afro-Mexican Communities of the Costa Chica: Identity, Culture, and the Archive. Paper presented at Afro-Latino Identity through Representation and Resistance Symposium hosted by Rice and Texas Southern University, Houston, TX, 2008. White, Kelvin. Pluralizing the Archival Paradigm: Research Goals and Survey Findings. Paper presented at the annual conference for the Society of American Archivists, San Francisco, CA, 2008. White, Kelvin. Meztizaje and Remembering in Afro-Mexican Communities of the Costa Chica: Implications for Archival Education in Mexico. Paper presented at the biennial conference for the International Conference on the History of Records Page 5 of 9
and Archives, Perth, Australia, 2008. White, Kelvin. Transforming Archival Education: Developing Culturally Sensitive and Inclusive Programs. Paper presented at the quadrennial meeting for the International Council of Archivists, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2008. White, Kelvin. Intersectionality and Interdisciplinarity: Information Studies and Studies of the Other. Roundtable session at the annual i-school Conference, Los Angeles, CA. 2008. White, Kelvin. Community Collaboration and Research: Engaging Communities to Enhance Learning, Research, and Practice in Archival Education. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Association for Library and Information Science Educators, Philadelphia, PA. 2008. White, Kelvin. Las dinámicas de raza y recordatorio sobre una sociedad daltónica : un caso de estudio sobre los paradigmas raciales y la educación en archivnomía en México. Paper presented at the VII Congress of Archivología of MERCOSUR. Vina del Mar, Chile, November 2007. White, Kelvin. Remembering the Past, Shaping the Future: el corrido as Record in Afro- Mexican Communities. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Society of American Archivists, Chicago, IL. 2007. White, Kelvin. Contributions and Intersections of Ethnic Studies Approaches to LIS Research. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Association for Library and Information Science Educators, Seattle, WA. 2007. White, Kelvin. Archival Education and Research Training Needs in Indigenous, Ethnic and Marginalized Communities in North America: Student Perspectives. Paper presented at Pluralizing the Archival Paradigm: Addressing the Practices, Perspectives and Needs of Indigenous, Ethnic and Under-represented Communities through Archival Education. Los Angeles, CA. 2007. White, Kelvin. Rethinking Archival Education in the Pacific: Applications to Afro- Mexican Communities. Paper presented at Pluralizing the Archival Paradigm - Archival Education and Research Training Needs of Indigenous and Minority Communities workshop for archival educators, archivists, and indigenous community members. Melbourne, Australia. 2007. White, Kelvin L. Pluralizing the Archival Paradigm: The Role of Graduate Education. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Society of American Archivist, New Orleans, LA. 2005. White, Kelvin. Zelda Jackson Ormes Torchy Brown, from Dixie to Harlem. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the International Congress for Vernacular, Page 6 of 9
Hispanic, Historical, American, and Folklore Studies, Puebla, Mexico. 2003. White, Kelvin. Images of African American Soldiers during the Korean War. Presented at the annual meeting for the Southwestern Social Science Association Conference, New Orleans, LA. 2000. GRANTS (External) Building the Future of Archival Education and Research, Phase II (AERI); Institute for Museum and Library Services, July 2011-2014. Co-PI, $609,344. "Partnering to Build a 21st Century Community of Oklahoma Academic Librarians" Institute for Museum and Library Services, June, 2009, to May, 2011. Co-PI, $ $414,545. AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS (internal) Faculty Enrichment Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma 2008-Pres ($10,200; 10 awards) College of Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty Research Grant, OU, 2009 and 2010 ($13,000) UCLA Graduate Division Summer Mentorship Fellowship, 2006 and 2007 ($6,000/summer). Information Studies Research Fellow, UCLA, Summer 2005 ($3,000). Library Scholars Fellowship, UCLA, 2005-07 ($18,500/year). Eugene V. Cota Robles Fellowship, UCLA, 2004-08 ($28,000/year). Bunche Center for Afro-Am Studies Graduate Research Award, UCLA 2003 ($650), 2005 ($700), 2006 ($300), 2007 ($750). UCLA Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, 2002-03 ($28,500). UNIVERSITY SERVICE College Level Provost s Advisory Committee on General Education Capstone (subcommittee), OU College of Arts and Sciences, 2012-2013 Page 7 of 9
OU College of Arts and Sciences Scholarship Committee, OU Spring 2012 Native American Studies Graduate Program Curriculum Committee, OU 2009- Pres African and Africana Studies Program, Search Committee, OU 2008-09, 2012-13 College of Arts and Sciences Information Technology Committee, OU 2009-2012 School Level School of Library and Information Studies Ad hoc Ph.D. Committee (chair), OU 2011-Pres School of Library and Information Studies Curriculum Committee, OU 2008-2011, 2012 School of Library and Information Studies, Search Committee, OU 2008-09, 2012-13 Faculty Advisor for the Oklahoma Library and Information Studies Students Association (OLISSA), OU (Norman), 2008-2011 Faculty Advisor for SLIS student chapter of the Society of American Archivists, 2011- PRES Department of Information Studies Diversity Committee, UCLA, 2004 2007 Department of Information Studies Doctoral Program Committee Student Representative, UCLA, 2005-2006 Department of Information Studies Faculty Search Committee, UCLA, 2005-2006 Department of Information Studies Undergraduate Program Committee, UCLA 2005-2006 African American Studies Student Association, UCLA, co-founder, 2002-04 Afro-American Studies Graduate Student Conference, UCLA, co-founder and organizer, 2002-04 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Archival Educators Research Institute (AERI) Planning Committee, 2008-09, 2011-2014 Page 8 of 9
Vice President, Section of Archival Education, International Council on Archives, 2012-2016 Co-Chair, Cultural Heritage Working Group, Society of American Archivists, 2012 Grant Reviewer, Institute for Museum and Library Services 2010 National Leadership Council and Strategic Planning Committee, 2009-12 (this is the organizing body of the Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museum Initiative) Local Planning Committee for the 2012 National Conference of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums ALISE Research SIG Convener for ALISE 2008 Conference, 2007-08 ALISE Juried Papers Committee, 2006 EDITORIAL SERVICE Reviewer. Information, Communication, and Society, 2011, 2012 Reviewer. Archival Science, 2008-Pres Reviewer. Interactions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, UCLA, 2004-Present Reviews Editor. Interactions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, UCLA, 2005-2006 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Society of American Archivists International Council on Archives Western Association of Women s History Page 9 of 9