{"id":8087,"date":"2026-01-28T20:54:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=8087"},"modified":"2026-02-05T21:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:23:26","slug":"welcome-steven-gentry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2026\/01\/28\/welcome-steven-gentry\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, Steven Gentry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are excited to welcome Steven Gentry, collections archivist for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/archives\/\">University Archives.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_8088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8088\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2026\/01\/20260128_143318-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8088\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2026\/01\/20260128_143318-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"Man with archival box smiles at camera\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2026\/01\/20260128_143318-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2026\/01\/20260128_143318-842x1024.jpg 842w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2026\/01\/20260128_143318-768x934.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2026\/01\/20260128_143318-scaled.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Gentry digs into the archives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Steven grew up in Columbia, Maryland, graduating from St. Mary\u2019s College of Maryland in 2014 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in history. After college, he worked at Howard County Public Library as a circulation clerk, at which time he learned to truly appreciate all the good work public librarians do. He attended Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, where he received a Master of Science in Library and Information Science with a focus in archives management in 2018. In 2019, Steven joined the team at the University of Michigan\u2019s Bentley Historical Library as a processing project archivist, where he has been for the last six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an archivist at Iowa, Steven looks forward to collaborating with colleagues to wrangle our backlogs, increase access to the University Archives, and participate in other projects that will meaningfully impact our users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI particularly enjoy the connections we make with others\u2014whether with coworkers, researchers, or even the historical agents named in the materials we handle each day, \u201c says Steven.<\/p>\n<p>When not tackling the archival backlog, you can find Steven and his fianc\u00e9e, Timi, indulging in TV shows like \u201cDesperate Housewives\u201d or \u201cBelow Deck.\u201d He also works on his cocktail-making and cooking game, claiming to make a mean chicken tikka masala pizza (which we are eager to try). But he is also looking for fun things to discover in the Iowa City\/Cedar Rapids area. Got an idea of something he should explore? Let him know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to welcome Steven Gentry, collections archivist for the University Archives. Steven grew up in Columbia, Maryland, graduating from St. Mary\u2019s College of Maryland in 2014 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in history. After college, he worked at Howard County Public Library as a circulation clerk, at which time he learned to truly appreciate<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2026\/01\/28\/welcome-steven-gentry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Welcome, Steven Gentry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":8088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[494],"tags":[89,846,156],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8091,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087\/revisions\/8091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8087"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=8087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}