Jessica Wagner Webster

Digital Initiatives Librarian at Baruch College

I’m interested in documenting people, groups, and events that are or have been neglected by archivists, or are perceived as hard to document. I’ve published a lot on collecting student life materials on college campuses. My other academic interests focus on depictions of people of color in film, literature, advertising, and other media during the first half of the 20th century.

Positions

Digital Initiatives Librarian, Libraries, Baruch College

Publications

“Filling the Gaps”: Oral Histories and Underdocumented Populations in The American Archivist, 1938–2011 (The American Archivist, Fall/Winter 2016)

The Student as Subaltern: Reconsidering the Role of Student Life Material Collections at North American Universities (2013)

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/bb_pubs/10/

Students as Donors to University Archives: A Study of Student Perceptions with Recommendations (with Debbi A. Smith) (2012)

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/bb_pubs/9/