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About Jen Hoyer

Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology.

Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive.

NBN Episodes hosted by Jen:

Library Science May 24, 2023

For the Encouragement of Learning

The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law

Myra Tawfik

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Myra Tawfik's book For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law (U Toronto Press, 2023) addresses the contested history of copyright law in Canada, where the economic and …
Library Science May 16, 2023

Holy Digital Grail

A Medieval Book on the Internet

Michelle R. Warren

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation …
Library Science May 13, 2023

Prison Media

Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology

Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Prisons are not typically known for cutting-edge media technologies. Yet from photography in the nineteenth century to AI-enhanced tracking cameras today, there is a long history of prisons being used …
Sociology May 7, 2023

Fearing Together

Ethics for Insecurity

Ami Harbin

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
In Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity (Oxford UP, 2023), Ami Harbin explores how fearing is a central part of how we relate to each other and the unpredictable world. Fearing …
Library Science May 5, 2023

Spoils of Knowledge

Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries

Emma Hagström Molin

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
In Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries (Brill, 2023), Emma Hagström Molin offers novel perspectives on document and book plundering. At the forefront of her study …
Library Science April 30, 2023

Moroccan Other-Archives

History and Citizenship After State Violence

Brahim El Guabli

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence (Fordham UP, 2023) investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and …
Library Science April 22, 2023

Archiving Cultures

Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory

Jeannette A. Bastian

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
“Archivists feel that what their mission is, is to document society. And the question is: how can you document society if you only look at or value or preserve­—maybe value …
Scholarly Communication March 26, 2023

Blunt Instruments

Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices

Kristin Hass

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices (Beacon Press, 2022) provides a field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in …
Scholarly Communication March 17, 2023

To the Collector Belong the Spoils

Modernism and the Art of Appropriation

Annie Pfeifer

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation (Cornell UP, 2023) rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like …
Scholarly Communication March 12, 2023

The Gentrification of the Internet

How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom

Jessa Lingel

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the …
Scholarly Communication February 18, 2023

Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage

Robyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
How can cultural heritage give us the methodological tools and source material to confront climate change? How can the cultural heritage sector lead the way into a future that proactively …
Scholarly Communication February 15, 2023

Letterpress Revolution

The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture

Kathy E. Ferguson

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a printer at a printing …
Scholarly Communication February 2, 2023

Monumental Names

Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow

Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow (Routledge, 2022) asks us to consider: what stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass atrocities by their personal …
Scholarly Communication January 24, 2023

Unsaid

Analyzing Harmful Silences

Lois Presser

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences (U California Press, 2022) is a guide to understanding and uncovering what …
Scholarly Communication January 14, 2023

Digital Codicology

Medieval Books and Modern Labor

Bridget Whearty

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever—thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that widespread digitization has fundamentally transformed how we connect …
Scholarly Communication December 21, 2022

Writing the Revolution

Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age

Heather Ford

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
A close reading of Wikipedia's article on the Egyptian Revolution reveals the complexity inherent in establishing the facts of events as they occur and are relayed to audiences near and …
Scholarly Communication December 11, 2022

The Remaking of Archival Values

Victoria Hoyle

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
The Remaking of Archival Values by Victoria Hoyle (Routledge, October 2022) posits that archival theory and practice are fields in flux, and that recent critical archival discourse that addresses neoliberalism …
Scholarly Communication December 3, 2022

Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive

Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies

Irene Hilden

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Dealing with the colonial archive entails acknowledging the inability to know everything, accounting for the archive’s limited and incomplete condition. Dealing with the colonial archive is not merely about stories …
Scholarly Communication November 15, 2022

The Political Lives of Information

Information and the Production of Development in India

Janaki Srinivasan

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India (MIT Press, 2022), written by Janaki Srinivasan and published by MIT Press in October 2022, examines how the …
Scholarly Communication November 11, 2022

Archives of Times Past

Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History

Cynthia Kros, John Wright, Mbongiseni Buthelezi, and Helen Ludlow

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Archives of Times Past: Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History (Wits University Press, 2022) is an exploration of particular sources of evidence on southern Africa’s early history. It gathers recent ideas …