Debra
DeRuyver
Debra is ABD in American Studies from the University of Maryland where she
taught one of the first web-based distance education classes on campus, a senior
seminar on electronic publications and virtual exhibitions. She has a
Master's in American Studies from California State University, Fullerton and a Bachelor's in English
Literature from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!).
She worked for two years as a reference archivist in the Still
Picture Branch of the National Archives and from 1997-1999 served
as the co-chair of the American Studies Association's
(ASA) Students' Committee where she mobilized the committee to successfully
lobby the ASA to pass a resolution recognizing graduate students as employees
who have the right to organize and collectively bargain. She has designed and taught
her own classes at UMD including courses on Dance and American Culture, Virtual Exhibitions & Electronic Publications,
and Online Advocacy. Currently she has a faculty research appointment at the University of Maryland where she
works for the International Leadership Association. She has a passion for French symbolist poetry, literary references to
toads, and playing with her son Jasper.
Jennifer
Evans
After graduating from the University of Maryland in 2001 with master's degrees
in history and library science, Jennifer worked as a project archivist at the
University of Maryland Libraries. In March 2004, Jennifer started employment at
the National Archives in the Nixon Presidential Materials and later in the
Office of Presidential Libraries as the Web and IT Coordinator. Currently, she
is a project manager in another Federal agency, working on information
technology systems. Her research interests are varied and include online
exhibitions, web design, electronic access to archival materials, and
nineteenth- and twentieth-century American women and gender.
