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Megan K. Friedel is Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, where she serves as Head of Collections Management & Stewardship for Rare and Distinctive Collections (RaD) and the Lead Archivist for RaD's Archives. Megan oversees all operations, personnel, and collections management for the Libraries' unique archival collections and also coordinates collection management issues across all four of RaD’s collecting areas. She has worked professionally as an archivist for over twenty years, both at state historical societies in Massachusetts, Oregon, and Colorado and as an academic archivist at the University of Alaska Anchorage, before joining the CU Boulder Libraries faculty in 2018.
Megan’s research interests focus on the photographic history of the nineteenth-century American West, the history of El Movimiento (the Chicano Movement) at CU Boulder, and the intersection of archives and social justice. She has a long record of public service, having served in the past as President of the Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists and on the board of the Northwest Archivists. Megan currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Western Archives.
Megan holds a BA in English from Amherst College and an MLIS with a concentration in archives management from Simmons College, where she also earned an MA in History.