Denise is a third year doctoral student at the University of Michigan School of Information. She received a Master of Information and Library Studies with a specialization in archives and records management from the University of Michigan in 1993. After graduation and before returning to academia, she worked as a Research Associate and Assistant Archivist at the University of Michigan Historical Center for the Health Sciences and as a Project Archivist at the Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections. She has also served as a consultant to the State Archives of Michigan to study and evaluate the use of a USMARC software component and to train the archivists in cataloging and the use of the MARC-AMC format.
Denise is active in the state and regional archival societies and has made presentations and taught workshops at conferences including: the Association of Archivists and Librarians in the Health Sciences and the American Association for the History of Medicine Joint Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, May , 1995; the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., September, 1995; the Midwest Archives Conference, Topeka, Kansas, October, 1995, Madison, Wisconsin, October, 1996 and Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 1998; and the Michigan Archives Association Annual Meeting, June, 1995, and June 16-17, 1997.
Special projects include acting as the student coordinator for seven masters students from the School of Information who processed and described the Pan Africanist Congress collection of documents at the University of Fort Hare in Alice, South Africa (May/June 1998). Denise has been involved in developing and is currently teaching a core course, "Social Systems and Collections," required for all students in the new School of Information masters' level program. Her research interests include search and retrieval issues in archives and cognitive aspects of knowledge integration as it applies to confidential and secreted information in archives and its subsequent use in society when disclosed.