Faculty for GAI 2025
Christina Zamon
Primary instructor Zamon is currently the Head of Special Collections and Archives at GSU. Prior to that, she was the Head of Archives and Special Collections for Emerson College. She has worked at the National Press Club, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Frick Art Reference Library and has over 25 years of experience. She is the author of The Lone Arranger: Succeeding in a Small Repository published in 2012 and Alone in the Stacks: Succeeding as a Solo Archivist in 2024. She received her MA in History and MLIS from the University of Maryland where she also worked as a graduate assistant in the library’s Preservation Department.
Tina Mason Seetoo
Seetoo will teach Preservation of Archival Materials. She is Preservation Manager at Delta Flight Museum. With the Archives Manager, she is responsible for the preservation of and access to the archives and museum collections.
Prior positions include Conservator of the Georgia Archives and Manager of Preservation Services at the Southeastern Library Network (now LYRASIS), where she was responsible for preservation education and outreach throughout the Southeast. She also has been a part-time Instructor of the Preservation of Archives course in the Masters of Archival Studies program at Clayton State University. She lectures and consults on a wide range of preservation topics, including collections care and repair, environmental management, disaster preparedness and recovery, and preservation management. Tina is currently the chair for the Georgia Heritage Responders. Tina received an MLIS and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Conservation from the University of Texas at Austin.
Katherine Fisher
Fisher will teach Born-Digital and Digital Preservation. Katherine is Head of Digital Archives, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library, at Emory University, where she manages a team responsible for acquiring, preserving, and providing access to born-digital and digitized collections and provides leadership and expertise in digital preservation and digital collection management across the organization. Prior to joining Emory, she worked as the digital preservation archivist at Georgia State University Library and the digital projects coordinator at the University of Hawai’i Press. Katherine holds an MLIS from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and a PhD in English from the University of Michigan.
Previous Faculty of GAI
Over the years, the Georgia Archives Institute faculty has included some of the best archival practitioners and educators in the field. The following served as principal instructor for various Institutes. All have been named Society of American Archivists Fellows.
Dr. Timothy L. Ericson
Dr. David B. Gracy II
Dr. Gregory S. Hunter
Kathleen D. Roe
Dr. Randall Jimerson
Ann Pederson
Dr. Elizabeth Yakel
Pam Hackbart-Dean
The following served as instructors in specialized areas and also have outstanding credentials.
Hilary Kaplan
Cliff Landis
Dorothy Waugh
Richard Pearce-Moses
Christine Wiseman