Faculty for GAI 2024
Pam Hackbart-Dean
Primary instructor Hackbart-Dean is Head and Professor, Special Collections & University Archives, and Interim Associate University Librarian at the University of Illinois Chicago Libraries. She has worked at Special Collections Research Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Special Collections & Archives at Georgia State University and for the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Study at the University of Georgia.
Pam has been active in many professional archival organizations, including the Society of American Archivists, the Academy of Certified Archivists, the Midwest Archives Conference and the Society of Georgia Archivists. She is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists and the Society of Georgia Archivists. She has conducted a number of workshops on arrangement and description, as well as published articles and books on the subject. Pam received her MA from the University of Connecticut.
Tina Mason Seetoo
Seetoo will teach Preservation of Archival Materials. She is Preservation Manager at Delta Flight Museum. With the Archives Manager, she is responsible for the preservation of and access to the archives and museum collections. Since 2010, she has been a part-time Instructor of the Preservation of Archives course in the Masters of Archival Studies program at Clayton State University.
Prior positions include Conservator of the Georgia Archives and Manager of Preservation Services at the Southeastern Library Network (now LYRASIS), where she was responsible for preservation education and outreach throughout the Southeast. She lectures and consults on a wide range of preservation topics, including collections care and repair, environmental management, disaster preparedness and recovery, and preservation management. Tina received an MLIS and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Conservation from the University of Texas at Austin, which included a year-long internship in the Book Conservation Lab of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
Katherine Fisher
Fisher will teach Born-Digital and Digital Preservation. Katherine is Head of Digital Archives, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library, at Emory University, where she manages a team responsible for acquiring, preserving, and providing access to born-digital and digitized collections and provides leadership and expertise in digital preservation and digital collection management across the organization. Prior to joining Emory, she worked as the digital preservation archivist at Georgia State University Library and the digital projects coordinator at the University of Hawai’i Press. Katherine holds an MLIS from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and a PhD in English from the University of Michigan.
Previous Faculty of GAI
Over the years, the Georgia Archives Institute faculty has included some of the best archival practitioners and educators in the field. The following served as principal instructor for various Institutes. All have been named Society of American Archivists Fellows.
Dr. Timothy L. Ericson
Dr. David B. Gracy II
Dr. Gregory S. Hunter
Kathleen D. Roe
Dr. Randall Jimerson
Ann Pederson
Dr. Elizabeth Yakel
The following served as instructors in specialized areas and also have outstanding credentials.
Hilary Kaplan
Cliff Landis
Dorothy Waugh
Richard Pearce-Moses
Christine Wiseman