Tanya Zanish-Belcher

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Tanya Zanish-Belcher is an archivist and associate professor. She is currently the Director of Special Collections and Archives at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. [1] [2] She specializes in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and has written several books and articles as well as given presentations on these topics. She has been invited to speak on several occasions as an expert historian and archivist across the United States.

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Education

In 1983, Zanish-Belcher graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a Bachelor's Degree in History. [1] She later returned to school and earned her Master's Degree in Historical and Archival Administration from Wright State University in 1990. [3]

Career

From 1989-1994, she worked as a Special Collections Archivist and Private Records Archivist at the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, Alabama. [4] In 1995, she moved to Iowa and served at the Curator for the Archives of Women in Science and Engineering at the Iowa State University Library. [1] Also in 1995, she began teaching at Iowa State and in 1998, became the head of her department. [4] In 1998, she was promoted to Head of the Special Collections Department and Head of the University Archives at Iowa State where she remained until 2013. [5]

From 2007-2010, she served as President of the Board of Directors for the YWCA. [4]

In 2013, Zanish-Belcher was named Special Collections and University Archivist at Wake Forest University where she works today. [1]

She has written several books and articles over her career as well as giving lectures and presentations to groups and organizations across the country. At one presentation at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she explored access to public records and how it has decreased through budget cuts and censorship. [6] She and Blake Graham, the president of the Academic Activities Committee, explained that open access to archives and records is essential to academic freedom and "encourages research, debate and information gathering." [6]

She has also taught several workshops at conferences at the local and national level. [3]

Affiliations

Zanish-Belcher is a longtime member of the Society of American Archivists. She has served on and chaired many committees of the SAA, including the nominating committee, Committee on the Status of Women, and the Membership Committee. [3] She was awarded the SAA Fellowship, their highest accolade, and served on the SAA Council from 2012-2015. [1] She was elected Vice President/President Elect of the SAA in 2016 and served as President of the SAA from 2017-2018. [1]

She has also been a member of other Archives groups and organizations. She served as the Archives Month Coordinator for the Society of North Carolina Archivists from 2014-2016. [1] And she also served with the Midwest Archives Conference as Co-Chair of the Education Committee from 2013-2015. [1] Zanish-Belcher has also served as MAC Vice President and President. [3]

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  2. ↑ "Tanya Zanish-Belcher (1961-)." Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Ed. Jeffrey Muhr. Detroit: Gale, 2016. Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Gale.
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  5. ↑ "Zanish-Belcher lecture on academic freedom | Announce | University of Nebraska-Lincoln". newsroom.unl.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  6. 1 2 Hytrek, Nikoel. "Tanya Zanish-Belcher to speak at UNL about academic freedom on April 18". The Daily Nebraskan. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
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