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The Central Historical Archive of the Islamic Community of Kosovo--in flames, June 13, 1999, hours before the arrival of the first NATO peacekeeping troops.
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Andras J. Riedlmayer
Bibliographer in Islamic Art and Architecture
Fine Arts Library, Harvard University |
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Since 1985, Andras J. Riedlmayer has been bibliographer, in charge of the Documentation Center of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture,
at the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University. A native of Budapest, Hungary, he was educated in Germany and the United States. His academic
involvement with Bosnia began 27 years ago when he wrote his senior thesis (A.B., History, University of Chicago) on "Bosnia-Herzegovina and
the Congress of Berlin." He holds graduate degrees from Princeton University (M.A., Near Eastern Studies) and Simmons College
(M.S., Library and Information Science).
He spent several years engaged in research and travel in the Middle East and the Balkans as a Fulbright Scholar in the 1970's, working
in archives and manuscript libraries. He has published articles dealing with Ottoman history, Islamic architecture, and the study of manuscript sources, in
journals such as Muqarnas: An Annual of Islamic Art and Architecture, Art Libraries Journal, The Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, Middle East Studies
Association Bulletin and Harvard Ukrainian Studies.
On April 4, 1995, he testified on cultural destruction at a Congressional hearing on genocide in Bosnia. Along with several academic colleagues, he has
recently launched an international project to track down and gather together microfilm copies of some of the unique manuscripts and documents that went
up in flames when libraries and archives in Sarajevo, Mostar and other towns in Bosnia were burned down by nationalist extremists in 1992-93 (Source:>> New York Times).
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David B. Gracy II
Governor Bill Daniel Professor in Archival Enterprise and Director of the Center for the Cultural Record
GSLIS, University of Texas, Austin |
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Dr. Gracy became interested in forgeries and facsimiles of historical documents while serving as Director of the Texas State Archives. As a result of being asked whether documents brought to the Archives were what they were purported to be, he began studying techniques of producing facsimiles
and forgeries so as to be able to demonstrate to the inquirers the basis
on which he determined a given document to be genuine, an innocent reproduction,
or a fraudulent creation. He is the author of a treatise in the Southwestern Historical
Quarterly on the authenticity of the de la Peña account of the death of David Crockett and of a
broad study of the effects of forgery published in the new Quorum Books title: Archives and the
Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society.
Before serving as Texas State Archivist, Gracy established and directed the Southern Labor Archives of Georgia State University and managed the archival program of the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University. He is a former president of both the Society of American Archivists and the Academy of Certified Archivists, and is a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association. Gracy holds a Ph.D. in History from Texas Tech University.
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