Laura Michelson

Assistant Professor

Project Archivist

Offices, Departments, or Centers: Libraries , Libraries ,

Laura Michelson (she/they) is the Project Archivist working with the Salisbury House Library Collection at Grinnell College Special Collections. Her project term began in August 2020 and is through the summer of 2024. As Project Archivist, they are working to curate the SHLC by integrating it into the Special Collections holdings; increase access to the collection through cataloging, finding aids, and digitization; facilitate book conservation; support instruction and research; and create interpretation, exhibits, and events highlighting the collection. Laura’s research interests include critical librarianship and conscious curation; book history and codicology; digital humanities; and book collection and library history, particularly ‘gentleman's libraries’ of the 1920s and Iowa book culture.

Consulting Areas

Anthropology

Education and Degrees

M.A. in Library and Information Science, University of Iowa (2020); B.A. in Medieval-Early Modern Studies, Cornell College (2016); ACM Newberry Library Seminar: Research in the Humanities (2015)