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Copyright 2001
College of Literature, Science and the Arts
  Francis Blouin

Professor
Ph.D. University of Minnesota,
1978


Other U of M Affiliation:

Director, Bentley Historical Library

Photo by Robert Barclay

Contact Information:
University of Michigan
1150 Beal (Bentley Library)
Phone: 734-764-3482
Second Office: 304 West Hall (School of Information)
Second Phone: 734-764-9376
E-mail: fblouin@umich.edu
Office Hours: On leave Fall 2009

Field(s) of Study:
Archives, documentation, and institutions of social memory; United States Social History, Michigan history.
Selected Publications:
Books:

Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory (ed. With William Rosenberg), Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2006

Vatican Archives: An Inventory and Guide to the Historical Documents of the Holy See 850-1960, (with L. Coombs, E.Yakel, C. Carlen, K. Gill) New York, Oxford University Press, 1998.

Articles:

“The Two Dimensions of Professional Service: Reflections on the Life of Robert M. Warner” in American Archivist Fall 2007

“Archives without History: Confronting the Challenge of the Digital in Archival Conceptions and Practice”in G. G Lisitisyna (ed.) Archivist and Historian: Cooperation in the Context of Contemporary Scholarship and Culture, St Petersburg, Europeysky Dom, 2007 pp. 138-165.

“Deux Spheres conceptuelles distinctes: le classement des archives et la reserche historique” in Materiaux pour l’histoire de notre temps, BDIC Paris, no. 82 Avril-juin 2006.

“History and Memory: The Problem of the Archives” in the Publications of the Modern Languages Association of America, Vol 119/ no. 4, March 2004, pp. 296-298

“History and memory: the Vatican archives and constructs of the past” in Margaret Proctor and Caroline Williams (eds.) Essays in Honour of Michael Cook, Liverpool, University of Liverpool Press, 2003, pp. 1-13.

Grants:

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation:
Applications of information technologies to archive university administrative processes, 2007 ($30,000)

Galdys Kreible Delmas Foundation:
Vatican Archives Project, Inventory of the Archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to include the predecessor offices of the Inquisition and the Index of Forbidden Books,2002-2004, ($5,000).

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation:
Post Doctoral Fellowships in Research Collections for the University of Michigan Public Goods Council 2001-2005. [with N. Cantor and W. Gosling], ($860,000)

Earhart Foundation of Ann Arbor:
Seminar on Archival Issues in China, 1999-2004 ($8,000)

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation:
Sawyer Seminar on Archives, Documentation, and the Institutions of Social Memory. Sept. 2000-June 2001, [with W. Rosenberg] ($100,000)


 

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