Elaine Engst is director of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and the Cornell University Archivist.  She received a B.A. in History from William Smith College, and an M.A. in History from Cornell University. She has been in the Cornell Library since 1979, serving as assistant director of the New York Historical Resources Center, as technical services archivist in the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, and as curator of manuscripts in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.     

She has given numerous presentations, curated exhibitions, and written articles, reviews, and exhibition catalogs.  She is active in the archival profession, and has served on the Society of American Archivists' (SAA) governing Council.  For her work on the New York State Historical Documents Inventory, in 1991, she was awarded the Society of American Archivist's  C.W.F. Coker Prize for outstanding finding aids.  In 1996, she was named an SAA Fellow, the Society’s highest form of recognition.

 

Carol Kammen is a senior lecturer in History at Cornell University and the author of “Cornell: Glorious to View (2003), First Person Cornell: Students' Diaries, Letters, Email, and Blogs” (2006), and a forthcoming book on the experience of African-American students at Cornell. Ms. Kammen is also the Historian of Tompkins County, New York, and was named by the New York State Regents a New York State Public Historian. She has authored dozens of important works, including “On Doing Local History, The Pursuit of Local History: Readings of Theory and Practice,”and “The Encyclopedia of Local History.” In addition to her own scholarship, she has taught Cornell students the history of their university since 1996 in a popular course entitled "The History of Cornell University: A Local History."