Kimberly Springer - Staff - Obama Presidency Oral History
Co-Principal Investigator
Curator, Oral History Archives, Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Kimberly Springer
Co-Principal Investigator of the Obama Presidency Oral History and Curator for the Oral History Archives at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Kimberly Springer is Curator for Oral History at the Oral History Archives at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library (OHAC). As co-PI for the Obama Presidency Oral History, she oversaw the successful preservation of the collection within OHAC and recorded a dozen interviews on topics of media relations and social movements.
Her research and publication areas are born-digital materials, artists’ studio archives, social media, social movements, and television studies as they intersect with race, gender, and sexuality. Her publications include Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980 (Duke University Press, 2005), Still Lifting, Still Climbing: African-American Women’s Contemporary Activism (New York University Press, 1999), Stories of Oprah: the Oprahfication of American Culture (University of Mississippi Press, 2010), and articles in several journals and edited volumes.
She holds a master’s of information science, specializing in archives, preservation, and social computing from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. She obtained her doctorate from the Women’s Studies Program at Emory University in Atlanta.
