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Caitlin Biggers

Project Manager, Student Work Collection

Caitlin Biggers is an archivist whose work focuses on increasing public access to visual resource collections through cataloging and digitization. Prior to joining The Cooper Union Architecture Archive, Biggers worked with the New York City Municipal Archives, New York University’s Bobst Library, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Steven Holl Architects, and a number of private collections. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Goucher College and a Master of Arts in Archives and Public History from New York University.

 

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