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Cecily Marcus serves as curator of the Givens Collection of African American Literature, the Performing Arts Archives, and the Upper Midwest Literary Archives. She is also the founding principal investigator of Umbra Search African American History (www.umbrsearch.org), an award winning initiative that brings together hundreds of thousands African American primary source materials from over 1,000 U.S. libraries, archives, and cultural heritage organizations. Cecily has served on numerous national boards and advisory groups, including Dance Heritage Coalition and One Archives/Smithsonian LGBTQ Digital Archives Project.

Awards & Grants

-2017, Recipient, Primary Source Access Award. Presented by Center of Research Libraries.
-2017-2019, Co-Investigator, “Prairie Poets and Press: Literary Lives of the Upper Midwest.” Presented by Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage.
-2016-2019, Principal Investigator “UMN Libraries/Umbra African American Digital Collection (UMN AADC): Digitizing African American Archival Materials Across University of Minnesota Collections.” Presented by Council on Library and Information Resources.
-2015-2016, Co-Investigator, “Guthrie Theater Archives Preservation and Access”. Presented by National Endowment for the Humanities.
-2014-2018, Principal Investigator, “The African American Theater History Project: Community Engagement and Dissemination.” Presented by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Funds of National.
-2013-2016, Principal Investigator, “The African American Theater History Project: Metadata Aggregation and Discovery of Digitized and Born Digital Archival Content and Collections.” Presented by Institute of Museum and Library Services.
-2012-2013, Principal Investigator, “Preserving Performing Arts Film and Video.” Presented by Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
-2012-2013, Principal Investigator, “Preserving the Ephemeral: A Records Management Plan for Theater.” Presented by Institute of Museum and Library Services.
-2007-2009, Recipient, Postdoctoral Fellowship. Presented by Council on Library and Information Resources to work as a researcher and project manager at the University of Minnesota Libraries.
-2002-2003, Recipient, Fulbright Scholarship, Argentina. Presented by Fulbright U.S. Student Program to support doctoral research in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-2001-2002, Recipient, International Dissertation Research Fellow. Presented by Social Science Research Council to support doctoral research in Buenos Aires, Argentina.