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Meet the 2016 SALALM Conference Scholarship Winners: Emma Whittington

Emma Whittington is a dual-degree...

Emma Whittington is a dual-degree master's candidate at the University of Texas, where she studies at both the School of Information and the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies. She is in her second semester of the program and plans to concentrate in Archival Studies. She also works as a Circulation Student Assistant at the Benson Latin American Collection.

Emma received her bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Virginia, where she completed an honor's thesis about the publication history of Borges's Ficciones. After graduating in 2012, she worked for the Rare Book School at UVa before spending a year living and working in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Her research interests include postcustodial archives, collection development, and the bibliotecas obreras of Argentina.

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