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BiographySean has served as director of the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) since the fall of 2006. He came to SCRC from Stanford University, where he was a manuscripts librarian and principal steward for the papers of 20th century polymath and counter-culture guru R. Buckminster Fuller. Sean's academic background is in the history of technology (MA, Hagley Fellow's Program, University of Delaware, 2000). He holds an MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2006), and is an active member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) of the American Library Association, as well as the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCACA). As the director of SCRC, his primary goal is building a "laboratory" for collaborative primary source research. In this vein, SCRC hosts exhibitions, classes, and a regular collections "roundtable" aimed at bringing SU faculty and graduate students together with outside researchers. His research interests center on the history of fear in America, and as a recent corollary, pulp magazines like Weird Tales. |
