David StaniunasA case for library/archives boycott and divestment: ExLibris[Note: this is the text of my portion of the 2022 SAA panel, Responses to archival fragmentation inside and outside Palestine. You can…9 min read·Jan 3, 2024----
David StaniunasThe American Cemeteries in Jerusalem[Note: I wrote this early this year, 9 months before the Israeli assault on Gaza. It got quietly spiked by my shop. And that’s probably…7 min read·Dec 22, 2023----
David StaniunasSystems in ignorance: subject knowledge against archival regimesThis is the text of an appearance at the University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies panel “Silenced histories: archives and…10 min read·Oct 27, 2023----
David StaniunasClimate change and the political economy of archivesThis was my portion of a panel at this summer’s annual conference of the Society of American Archivists. You can listen to it here.7 min read·Oct 4, 2023----
David StaniunasSanctuaryIn January 1982 Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson gathered to discern whether it would establish itself as a sanctuary for people…8 min read·Jun 29, 2022----
David StaniunasThe Jibrail Rural Fellowship Cooperative, 1943–1967A village school and farm used rabbits to fight communism, and changed agriculture in Northern Lebanon30 min read·Sep 28, 2021----
David StaniunasThe Black Manifesto’s Radical Year, 1969–1970“From April to December, all hell broke loose.”8 min read·Feb 5, 2021----
David StaniunasBilly Sunday, Influenza Vector, 1918As Christians consider how to do church in the time of COVID-19, consider the evangelist who “touched 10,000 hands” in Providence RI3 min read·Mar 24, 2020----
