BRC Project Staff:
Dory Klein, Project Co-Director
Amanda Rust, Project Co-Director
Giordana Mecagni, Community Outreach Advisor
Amy Ruskin, Data Engineer
Patrick Murray-John, CERES Developer
Sarah Sweeney, Materials Cataloging and Ingest
Drew Facklam, Materials Cataloging and Ingest
Kim Kennedy, Materials Cataloging and Ingest
Raghunath Arava, Leaflet Developer
Northeastern University Archives & Special Collections Staff:
Molly Brown, Reference and Outreach Archivist
Molly Copeland, Archives Assistant
Samantha Dodgen, Archives Assistant
Brigid Hogan, Archives Assistant
Giordana Mecagni, Head of Special Collections, University Archivist
Sean Plaistowe, Archives Assistant
BRC Research Associates:
Mara McDaniel
Taryn Gilligan
Michael Kitchen
Danielle Rose
Jillian Decker
Kimberly Villafuerte Barzola
Liam Moore
Ayah Aboelela
Sofia Perez Arias
Urmi Parekh
Laurel Schlegel
Community Advisors:
Brittany Thomas
Jennie Cherry
JoAnn Fitzgerald
Steven Gingras
Charlie LoGrasso
Roberta Marchi
Fran Riley
Jeanne Belmonte
Debra Cave
Zumix
East Boston Historical Society and Museum
Principal Investigators:
Dan Cohen
Julia Flanders
Patrick Yott
Credit and Copyright:
Copyright and licensing
Northeastern University holds the copyright for some, but not all, of the texts and photographs exhibited on this site. Please contact the Archives and Special Collections Department at archives@northeastern.edu to obtain reproductions of the materials and to inquire about copyright.
CERES: Exhibit Toolkit:
This project was created on a customized WordPress instance using the CERES: Exhibit Toolkit. These tools, as well as archival, hosting, and support systems, are provided by the Northeastern University Library Digital Scholarship group. The DSG specializes in the Digital Humanities and helps faculty, staff, and students in the Northeastern community showcase their projects to the public.
Land Acknowledgement:
We would like to acknowledge our presence on the ancestral lands of the Massachusett Tribe. They are the tribe of Indigenous peoples from whom the Colony, Province, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts have taken their name. We pay our respects to the ancestral bloodline of the Massachusett Tribe and their descendants who still inhabit historical Massachusett Tribe territories to this day.
Explore the Massachusett Tribe’s website to learn more about this history and stay up to date with tribal news.