Faculty and Staff

Graduate Spotlight | PCS Advisory Committee

Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa | Hal Erickson | Dr. Patricia Galloway | Dr. David B. Gracy II | Chela Metzger | Karen Pavelka | Ann Seago | Dr. Karl Miller

Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa
Lecturer
Office: CDL 001DC
Email: e.cunnk@mail.utexas.edu
Phone: (512) 471-8287

B.A., Secondary Education, UT-Austin, 1983.
M.L.I.S., GSLIS, UT-Austin, 1985.
Certificate of Administration of Preservation Programs in Libraries and Archives, Columbia University, 1988.

Ms. Cunningham-Kruppa teaches preservation administration courses and assists in the management of PCS. She worked half-time as Digital Programs Librarian in Digital Library Services of UT's General Libraries until Fall 2002, now she is with PCS full-time. From September 1988 through October 1997, Ms. Cunningham-Kruppa was Preservation Officer for the General Libraries. She served as the National Historical Publications and Records Commission Project Archivist for the Peabody Institute, John Hopkins University, 1985-87.

Hal Erickson
Adjunct Faculty
Email: erickson@physics.utexas.edu

B.S., Chemistry, UT-Austin, 1991.
A.B.D., Chemical Phsyics, UT-Austin.

Hal Erickson teaches courses in Conservation Science. He has conducted research and consulted on a range of conservation issues including diethyl zinc mass deacidification of archival materials and devising the appropriate traveling and display environment for the world's first photograph.

B.A., French, Millsaps College, 1966.
M.A., Comparative Literature, 1968 and Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 1973, both from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
A.B.D., Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Patricia Galloway came to GSLIS in 2000 to teach courses in the management and preservation of electronic records and digital assets. Previously, she worked at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History from 1979 to 2000, where she supervised the archives' automation program, carried out historical research, edited both historical documents and the Department's extensive archaeological publications, directed the creation of new permanent exhibits for the Mississippi State Historical Museum covering the period 1500-1800, and presided over an NHPRC project to create an electronic records program for the archives. She is the author of Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700 (1995) and the editor of The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and "Discovery" in the Southeast (1997).

Dr. David B. Gracy II
Director of PCS and the Center for the Cultural Record,
Governor Bill Daniel Professor in Archival Enterprise at GSLIS.
Office: SZB 562L, CDL 001DC
Email: gracy@ischool.utexas.edu
Phone: (512) 471-8291

B.A., 1963 and M.A., 1966, both in History from UT-Austin.
Ph.D., History, Texas Tech University, 1971.

Dr. Gracy introduced preservation courses into the GSLIS curriculum in 1987. He has worked as Archivist, Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University, and then Director, Texas State Archives. He is a former President of the Society of American Archivists and Secretary of the Council on Library and Information Resources. Dr. Gracy's research interests include archives and records management, as well as American biography. He is the author of Archives and Manuscripts: Arrangement and Description; of An Introduction to Archives and Manuscripts; of Littlefield Lands: Colonization on the Texas Plains, 1912-1920; of Moses Austin: His Life; and co-author of Ships of the Texas Navy.

Chela Metzger
Lecturer
Email: chela@ischool.utexas.edu
Office: CDL 001DG
Phone: (512) 471-8293

B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Evergreen State College, 1985.
M.S.L.I.S., Simmons College, 1990.
Certificate in Hand Bookbinding, North Bennet Street School, 1993.

Ms. Metzger joined the PCS faculty in Spring, 2001, teaching the Book Lab courses. After completing an internship in rare book conservation at the Library of Congress in 1994, Ms. Metzger worked as a project conservator for over five years at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. She also worked as one of the teachers for the Lampadia/Getty-sponsored conservation education program for visiting South American conservators. In Fall, 2000, Ms. Metzger conducted a Fulbright Lectureship in Argentina.

Karen Pavelka
Senior Lecturer
Office: CDL 001DA
Email: pavelka@mail.utexas.edu
Phone: (512) 471-8286

B.A., Studio Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1980.
M.S. in Library Service and Advanced Certificate in Library and Archives Conservation, Columbia University, 1988.

Karen Pavelka joined the PCS program in 1994. In addition to teaching courses on records materials and environmental issues in preservation, she developed and leads a two-semester sequence of lab classes covering all aspects of library and archival paper conservation treatment. Previously she headed the Paper Conservation Lab at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Ms. Pavelka has taught and lectured both in the United States and internationally.

Ann Seago
Senior Administrative Associate
Office: CDL 001D
Email: aseago@mail.utexas.edu
Phone: (512) 471-8290

B.F.A., Art History, UT-Austin.
B.F.A., Studio Art, Southwest Texas State University.

Ann Seago has been the office manager for PCS since 1994. She is the department liaison between the program and University administration. As office manager, she works with the Director on grants and scholarship matters and with faculty and students on a wide range of matters.

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