Jesse Johnston

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• » 18 May – AAM 2013

  Attending the American Alliance of Museums meeting in Baltimore on Monday, May 20. Tweets at #aam2013.

• » 2 November – SEM 2012

  Presented my current project on research use of ethnographic sound archives at the Society for Ethnomusicology’s meeting in New Orleans.

• » 1 August – Beyond Borders

  Speaking at the research forum at “Beyond Borders,” the Society of American Archivists conference in San Diego, on August 7! Tweets all week at #SAA12.

• » 3 July – ABJ Feature for SAA

  My feature on the digital preservation plan for MSU’s ABJ project appeared in the May/June SAA newsletter, the Archival Outlook. Have a read!

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About

Jesse Johnston is a Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access. He came to the NEH from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, where was an Archives Specialist in the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections and worked on metadata and digital description for archival audio collections. His research focuses on the performance of Moravian traditional music in the Czech Republic and user access practices in audiovisual archives. He has conducted field research in traditional and popular musics with communities in the Czech Republic, the Philippines, and Czech-Americans in the Upper Midwest. He previously taught musicology at Bowling Green State University and the University of Michigan–Dearborn. His research has been supported by a Fulbright Fellowship (2005), a Kohn Doctoral Fellowship (Masaryk University), a Rackham Humanities Dissertation Writing Fellowship, and twice by Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships. At Michigan, he also received the Margaret Mann Award (2012) and the Louise E. Cuyler Award (2008). He holds a PhD in musicology and a Master of Science in Information, both from the University of Michigan.