Debra
DeRuyver
Debra DeRuyver
is currently a
Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of Maryland, writing/creating a
dissertation/virtual exhibition on modern dance, the body, and the formation of middle-class culture. 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.
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. She worked as the Electronic Communications
Coordinator at the James MacGregor Burns
Academy of Leadership from 1999 - 2002 where she developed their Web site into a 1000 page+
resource on leadership scholarship. 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 and literary references to
toads.
To learn more, see her personal
Web site.
Jennifer
Evans
After graduating from the University of Maryland in 2001 with master's degrees in history and library science, Jennifer Evans
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. 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.
