The Catholic University of America

Sally Stokes

Sally Sims Stokes developed the CUA-SLIS Art and Museum Libraries Institute and has been its academic director for several years. Her most recent work outside SLIS has been as Senior Research Specialist at the White House Historical Association, where she was responsible for the White House Art Collection online image database as well as for exhibition and publication research. She is a curator of The Working White House, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition now on tour. She has worked at the National Archives as a staff member and a researcher, and at the Ohio State University Libraries in subject-area database instruction in the arts and humanities. From 1987 to 2003 she managed the National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection at the University of Maryland, where she developed the online periodicals database, collected both trade and gray-literature materials, and initiated a manuscripts collection on the history of the preservation field.

Ms. Stokes has curated exhibitions, presented scholarly papers, and conducted projects in support of cultural heritage research throughout the US and in the UK. She has taught at Kent State, Clarion University, and the University of Maryland. Her professional publications range from studies of 19th-century dress reform to analyses of California architecture and interpretations of British children’s literature. She has received two NEH fellowships, and has been a Kawaler Scholar, a Gladstone Williams Scholar, and a White House History Fellow in Pre-Collegiate Education. She has served on boards and committees in a variety of professional organizations in the museum, library, and heritage fields. Her memberships include ARLIS/NA, the International Council on Monuments and Sites, the Special Libraries Association, and the DC Library Association, for which she was the 2010–11 co-chair of the Emerging Technologies Interest Group. She holds a B.A. in Government from the College of William and Mary; an M.A. in American Studies from the George Washington University; and an M.S. in Library Science from Clarion University.