Brody Coning (MA '22) has accepted a position as film archivist at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. Coning works on a team of archivists responsible for assessing, describing, and organizing one of the largest film archives in the world.
Kate Brunner (MA '20) is thrilled to have accepted a new permanent role with the Colorado State Library, where she will be building out the library's Youth and Family Services team and seeking opportunities to design impactful initiatives for additional communities of service across Colorado.
Lachrista Greco (MA '20) has started a new role as Undergrad Academic Advisor for the Department of Gender & Women's Studies at UW-Madison. Greco previously worked for 8 years for the Office of the Gender & Women's Studies Librarian.
Mei Zhang (PhD '19) has accepted a role as an assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University.
Mary Kate Kwasnik (MA '15) has joined the board of the Association of Maine Archives and Museums. She has been serving as the Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at the Patten Free Library in Bath, Maine, since 2022.
Laura Martin (MA '12) was appointed as the Head of International and Area Studies at UW-Madison Libraries. She continues in her role as Ibero-American Studies and Romance Languages Librarian there.
Emily Lupton Metrish (MA '11) published a debut novel (as E. H. Lupton), Dionysus in Wisconsin, in May 2023. The sequel (Old Time Religion) is due out in January 2024.
Emil Hoelter (MA '10) accepted a new role this summer as Records Coordinator with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Air Management.
Alex Phelps (MA '06) is retiring after 34 years working in library services for the Madison Metro School District.
Steve Capuozzo (MA '04) recently accepted a Subject Department Manager position at Cleveland Public Library's Main Campus, where he will be managing both the Social Sciences Department and the Public Administration Library.
Katherine Clark (MA '03) is now the Deputy Director of Public Services for the Middleton Library. This is a new position for the Middleton Library after a organizational restructure and staff reclassification that happened in 2021. As the first Deputy Director, Clark is responsible for hiring, training and managing both Public Services and other Library Departments.
Kirstin Johnson (MA '01) published a new book, Music Collection Development and Management in the Digital Age, in March 2023. It is relevant to anyone who works in building or managing music library collections and to students.
Anita Taylor Doering (MA '87), senior archivist at the La Crosse Public Library Archive (LPLA), played a key role in a documentary film project that has won an Upper Midwest Regional Emmy Award. The LPLA partnered with TV station WLAX to create Rivertown, a historical documentary series highlighting the seedier cultural history of the La Crosse area. The 2022 Rivertown episode, titled “The Ballad of Brinkman Ridge” and featuring LPLA archivists Anita Taylor Doering and Scott Brouwer, won the regional Emmy. The episode can be viewed on YouTube.
Fred Gaieck (MA '86) has retired as a librarian at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, Ohio. He has been spending some of his retirement improving his public speaking skills through Toastmasters.
Paul Rood (MA '86) has retired after 34 years of federal service, the first two at the Library of Congress and the final 32 at the National Archives, where he served as an archivist. He fondly remembers studying at UW-Madison under professors Jack Clarke, John Boll, and Charles Bunge.
