Kopana Terry

Kopana is a preservationist, photographer, musician, producer, oral historian and archivist/librarian as well as a graduate student in Historic Preservation at the University of Kentucky College of Design. She is engaged with effects on and alterations to Place and Appalchian identity caused by extreme weather events related to Climate Change, and how vulnerable communities, people, and the built environment can prepare for increasing natural disasters. By day, she is the Archivist at the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History and Curator of Newspapers in the Special Collections Research Center at UK Libraries. She has over twenty years experience focused on digital collections with an emphasis on traditional and digital preservation, newspapers, oral history, and media reformatting. From 2007-2013, she managed the NEH-funded National Digital Newspaper Program for Kentucky and she created meta|morphosis: film-to-digital lecture series for global newspaper and microfilm digitization training. She holds a BA in Fine Art Photography and a Master’s of Library and Information Science. For more, see: kopana.net

Research Areas: preservation, Appalachia, archives, oral history, photography

Collaborative Interests: department seminars, grant collaborations, publications, research collaborations