Bergis Jules, Ph.D.

Founding Member Bergis Jules is an archivist and public historian. His research interests include race and the history of archives, Black archiving practices, web archiving, and community-based archives. He is an advocate for community-based cultural memory organizations that prioritize documenting the lives of marginalized and oppressed people. He works with these organizations to develop solutions that can grow their capacity and help them achieve long term sustainability. He is a co-founder of Archiving the Black Web and Documenting the Now, projects concerned with web archiving training and research. He also runs the Sustainable Futures blog which is an advocacy space for community-based archives. Bergis holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Riverside, and also received a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science with a Specialization in Archives and Records Management, and a Master’s degree in African American and African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University. Bergis uses he/him pronouns.

Project lead: Archiving the Black Web, Architecting Sustainable Futures, DocNow, Sustainable Futures