Rate My Professor Katherine Wisser

Wisser's research focuses on archival description, metadata coordination, Encoded Archival Context for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF), and relationships within archival collections. She has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles, including “Exploring Relationship Description: A Report from the Describing Relationships Workshop, Simmons College, February 2018” in Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (2019), “Surveillance, documentation and privacy: an international comparative analysis of state intelligence records” in Archival Science (2015), “EAD tag usage: community analysis of the use of Encoded Archival Description elements” in American Archivist (2013), and “Describing entities and identities: the development and structure of Encoded Archival Context – Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families” in Journal of Library Metadata (2011). She co-authored The Organization of Information (Libraries Unlimited, 2018) and edited Libraries: Traditions & Innovations (DeGruyter Press, 2017). Wisser co-chaired the Technical Subcommittee for EAC-CPF, edited special issues of Journal of Archival Organization (2015-2017) and Journal of Library Metadata (2011), and served as Visiting Scholar at the American Antiquarian Society in 2012. Her honors include Distinguished Fellow of the Society of American Archivists (2021), Simmons University Faculty Achievement Award for Service, Edward G. Holley For the Good of the Order Award (2009), and several scholarships from UNC Chapel Hill.