Rachel Pierce
About Rachel Pierce
I have a PhD in gender and women's history and an MLIS in library and information science. My research interests are grounded in a background as a women's and gender historian. I am also interested in photography, digitalization, and archives. These interests have led to research on the development of feminism within political institutions, gendered political journalism during the Cold War, and how gender, sex, sexuality, race, and class can be expressed in descriptive metadata for materials from cultural heritage institutions. I am also interested in the relationship(s) between digital and physical iterations of archives, with a focus on how classification systems do or do not articulate the relations between physical and digital materials and collections. Outside of work, I volunteer at Hagabion, where I sometimes can sneak in a film between selling tickets.