Credits and Contributor Bios
This exhibition was curated by Kayo Denda, Madeleine Rosenberg, Tara Maharjan, and Andy Urban. It was designed by Isaiah Beard. Thanks to Rhonda Marker, for her support.
Stephanie Bartz is a government resources librarian at Rutgers University Libraries. Her avocation is local history, specifically that of South River, NJ. She has been a member of the executive board of the South River Historical & Preservation Society for many years and co-authored Images of America: South River.
Ronald Becker is Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University Libraries. He served in the library’s Special Collections and University Archives for 45 years. He is currently spiritual leader of the Jewish Community Center of Pasco County, Florida, and member of the boards of the New Port Richey Public Library and the Pasco County Library System.
Kayo Denda is the Head of the Margery Somers Foster Center and Librarian for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University - New Brunswick Libraries. She is the liaison librarian to the Women’s and Gender Studies Department and the Institute for Women’s Leadership Consortium member units.
Tara Maharjan is the processing archivist and social media coordinator at Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers University. She holds Master’s degrees from Simmons College in History and Library Science with a concentration in archiving. Prior to Rutgers, she worked as a cataloger at the Internet Archive and a cookbook librarian for America's Test Kitchen.
Fernanda Perrone has been an archivist at Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives specializing in women's collections since 1992. She recently completed an exhibition and publication on women's suffrage in Middlesex County.
Caryn Radick is digital archivist at Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers University. Since 2016 she has served as project director of the New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project, which is part of the National Digital Newspaper Program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Madeleine Rosenberg serves as Chief Public Historian for the New Jersey Historical Commission, a state agency dedicated to the advancement of public knowledge and preservation of New Jersey history. This position follows five years at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, where she served as the Director of Exhibition of Development.
Andy Urban is an Associate Professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University. Andy’s research on Seabrook Farms, a frozen-foods agribusiness that recruited incarcerated Japanese Americans, guestworkers from the Caribbean, and European Displaced Persons during the 1940s, is also the subject of an online New Jersey Digital Highway exhibition.
Noelle Lorraine Williams’s work examines the ways African Americans utilize culture to imagine liberation in the United States. Recently, the exhibition she curated, “Radical Women”, received the Giles Wright Award for significant contributions to African American history in NJ.