
Obden Mondesir
Adjunct Outreach Archivist
Special Collections & Archives
Phone: 929-413-0585
RO316
Education
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- MA in Library and Information Science. Queens College, CUNY
- MA in History. Queens College, CUNY
Biography
Obden Mondesir is an Outreach Archivist and Adjunct Lecturer at Queens College, City University of New York, and an Oral Historian working at the Weeksville Heritage Center, a multidisciplinary house museum dedicated to preserving the history of the 19th century Free Black community in Weeksville, Brooklyn, New York.
Obden has a dual M.A. in Library Science and History from Queens College and is the recipient of a West African Research Center Library Fellowship and the Citi Center for Culture + Queens Library Fellowship.
Teaching
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- LBSCI 732 Archives, Manuscripts, and the Shapes of Material History
Selected Publications and Links
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- “The Role of Archives in Transformation, Community, and Healing During a Pandemic” by Zakiya Collier, Joyce LeeAnn Joseph, Julia Keiser, and Obden Mondésir
- The Culinary Legacy of Brooklyn’s First Free Black Community
- Power and Oppression in the Archive: Building a Diverse Historical Record through Oral History