Staff Directory

Thom Burns is the Curator of the Harvard Plate Stacks, the historical astronomical photographic collection at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. His professional and academic career focuses on connecting and creating synergy among...

Lisa Hees Bravata is the Archivist and Assistant Curator of the Harvard Plate Stacks. Lisa catalogs, describes, and preserves the historic artifacts in the Plate Stacks collection to make them more accessible to all. Her archival work emphasizes bringing...

Rhiannon Rainey is the Community Coordinator for Project PHaEDRA. She assists volunteers and transcribes notebooks for the project, as well as handling the monthly newsletter. She started at Wolbach Library, working on their deduplication project before...

Elijah Berk-Silverman is a Curatorial Assistant with the Harvard Plate Stacks, where he is a part of the team that works on the preservation and digitization of 19th and 20th-century astronomical glass plate photographs. He works on collections management...

Samantha M. Joyce is a Curatorial Assistant at the Harvard Plate Stacks, where she contributes to research, exhibition planning, and collection care. She was part of the team that completed the 20-year-long DASCH project and has supported major programs...

Kayleigh MacDonald is a Curatorial Assistant with the Harvard Plate Stacks, where she assists in the digitization and preservation of 19th-century glass plate photographs. Her role combines high-level archival handling, metadata organization, and imaging...

Meta Partenheimer is a Curatorial Assistant at the Harvard College Observatory’s Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. In her role, Meta supports projects related to the history of...