Maggie Schreiner has over fifteen years of experience working at the intersection of public history and archives. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in History at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and a Digital Fellow at Graduate Center Digital Initiatives. Her dissertation research focuses on queer and trans organizing for affordable housing in New York City from the 1970s to early 2000s, through an examination of squatting, rent regulations, and shelter housing. As a Digital Fellow, she develops workshops and training materials on digital humanities for the Graduate Center community, with a focus on digital archives. Her research is supported by a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and numerous other fellowships. In 2023, Maggie was awarded the Graduate Student Paper Award from CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies.
Prior to beginning doctoral studies, Maggie held positions at the Tamiment Library and Wagner Labor Archives, the Queens Memory program at Queens Public Library, and as the Manager of Archives and Special Collections at Brooklyn Historical Society (now the Center for Brooklyn History). Maggie teaches graduate seminars in the Archives and Public History MA program at New York University and at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. Maggie has previously developed collaborative projects to document communities that are traditionally underrepresented in the archive, worked with activists to understand the histories of their organizations, and created public programming and exhibitions to contextualize archival materials and make them publicly accessible. Through her work, she is guided by her experience as a community organizer, and best practices in the public history and community archives fields. Maggie is proud to serve on the Advisory Committee of the LGBT Community Center National History Archive.
Maggie holds an MA in Archives and Public History from New York University and a BA in Central and Eastern European Studies from McGill University.
To get in touch, please email maggieschreiner [at] gmail [dot] com.