Harris Bauer (she/her)

Harris is a dual-degree student graduating with an MA from New York University’s Archives and Public History program and an MLIS from the Palmer School of Information at Long Island University. Her work considers the benefits of embracing and enacting oral history frameworks in archival practices, with a focus on archives of Holocaust memory and testimony collection methods.

Harris’s background is in visual and critical studies. She has worked on editorial and curatorial projects, fundraising initiatives, and several publications with spaces between New York and Los Angeles including Wendy’s Subway, Ugly Duckling Presse, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Psychic Wines, PressPress and Hosting Projects. Since beginning graduate school she has worked with the New York Philharmonic Archive as a Digital Archives Intern, and as a Student Archives Assistant within the Archival Collections Management department in NYU’s Special Collections. She has also participated in large-scale discovery and description efforts as the Oral History Fellow at the Holocaust Museum LA where she received a digitization grant on behalf of the museum to digitize the legacy tapes of their Holocaust Oral Testimony Project (1985-1996) with California Revealed.

Harris’s writing focuses on the intersection of memory, history, and archival representation with an interest in probing experimental methods for recording lived experience and the “present tense.” Her work recording testimony with her grandmother, and her research of the everyday experience collected in Holocaust archives, will be presented as part of the “Emerging Archival Voices” panel at the Society of American Archivists “Archives*Records” conference in the Summer of 2024.