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Katharina Hering : Curriculum Vitae

Recent Employment

Adjunct Faculty, Department of History & Art History, George Mason University, 2020-

Digital Project Librarian, German Historical Institute, 2018-

Project Archivist, National Equal Justice Library, Digital Initiatives and Special Collections, Georgetown Law Library, 2012-2018 

Teaching

History 390: The Digital Past: Doing Oral History in the Digital Age, http://hist390-kh.org/

Education

PhD, Department of History & Art History, George Mason University, 2009

MLIS, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Archives, Preservation and Records Management specialization, 2010

Diplom/MA in political science and history, Universität Hamburg, Germany, 1997

Recent professional service and volunteer work

American Archivist Editorial Board member, 2019-2023

AWE Fund organizing committee, 2020-

Board member, Consortium for the National Equal Justice Library, 2018-

Archival consultant, Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, 2016-

Secretary and president, Friends of the DC Archives, 2014- (president 2020-), https://www.dcarchives.org/

Selected publications

Hering, Katharina. “The Representation of NARA’s INS Records in Ancestry’s Database Portal.” Archival Science, March 3, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-022-09386-3.

———. “Review: Zwölf Wege Ins Archiv. Umrisse Einer Offenen Und Praktischen Archivwissenschaft.” The American Archivist 84, no. 1 (June 24, 2021): 210–13. https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-84.1.210.

———. “Palatines or Pennsylvania German Pioneers? The Development of Transatlantic Pennsylvania German Family and Migration History, 1890s–1966.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 140, no. 3 (2016): 305–34. https://doi.org/10.5215/pennmaghistbio.140.3.0305.

———. “Review: The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust.” The American Archivist 79, no. 1 (June 1, 2016): 215–18. https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081.79.1.215.

———. “Voice of the Voteless: The District of Columbia League of Women Voters, 1921-1941.” Washington History 28, no. 1 (2016): 3–13. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43799313.

Katharina Hering. “Provenance Meets Source Criticism.” Journal of Digital Humanities 3, no. 2 (2014). http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/3-2/provenance-meets-source-criticism/.