Richard Pearce-Moses is an American archivist and educator. He was president of the

Society of American Archivists The Society of American Archivists is the oldest and largest archivist association in North America, serving the educational and informational needs of more than 5,000 individual archivist and institutional members. Established in 1936, the organi ...

in 2005-6. He was recognized by the Library of Congress for his work as a Digital Preservation Pioneer. He was the first director of the Master of Archival Studies (MAS) program at

Clayton State University Clayton State University is a public university in Morrow, Georgia. It serves Atlanta metropolitan area, Metro Atlanta and is a selective Senior Unit of the University System of Georgia. The main campus includes of wooded grounds, featuring fiv ...

Career

Before coming to Clayton State, he worked at the Arizona State Library and Archives for nearly twelve years where he served as Deputy Director for Technology and Information Resources, providing oversight and directing the enterprise architecture for information systems used to manage the agency's library, archival, and other collections, including both physical and electronic holdings. Previously, he held positions as the Director of Digital Government Information and as the Coordinator of the Cultural Inventory Project. Pearce-Moses worked as Documentary Collections Archivist and Automation Coordinator for the

Heard Museum The Heard Museum is a private, not-for-profit museum in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, dedicated to the advancement of American Indian art. It presents the stories of American Indian people from a first-person perspective, as well as exhibitio ...

, as Curator of Photographs at the

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

Libraries, and as a Local Records Management Consultant for the Texas State Library. He has a master of arts in

American Studies American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that examines American literature, history, society, and culture. It traditionally incorporates literary criticism, historiography and critical theory. Sch ...

from the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

and a master of science in library and information science from the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Universit ...

. Pearce-Moses has been an active member of a number of research projects, has served as a member of the National Archives' Advisory Committee for the Electronic Records Archives. He is a certified archivist, and was presented with the

American Library Association The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with 49,727 members a ...

’s Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology. In 2002, he won an NHPRC Archival Research Fellowship to write A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology. He was elected president of the

in 2005. In 2009, he was recognized by the Library of Congress for his work as a Digital Preservation Pioneer In 2010, he became the first director of the Master of Archival Studies (MAS) program at Clayton State University.

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