Matyn, Marian

JURIED PUBLICATIONS    

“Flying ahead inside and outside of the circus tent, 1927-1960s: Ma and the Flying Melzoras,” Women’s History Review (June 2025). This article is normally available through subscription only and has a one-year embargo. This link is a temporary, free access link https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WUYX99KVKDXB27QYJMYB/full?target=10.1080/09612025.2025.2523182

Co-authored with Melissa James and Laura Thompson, “Forging justice with a small team: A model for sustainable critical cataloging and reparative description for libraries and archives,”. This chapter is in From Interrogation to Integration: Centering Social Justice in Special Collections, Archives, and Preservation,  ACRL Press, Chicago, March 2025.

Co-authored with Brittany Bayless Fremion “Commémoration du désastre du Michigan causé par le PBB. Le rôle d’une archiviste et d’une historienne” [in English: Commemorating Michigan’s PBB Disaster: The Roles of an Archivist and a Historian”], Revue Archives, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2024. The journal is available in digital format on the AAQ website exclusively for AAQ members. Subscribing institutions will have access to it on the Érudit platform.

Co-author with Brittany Bayless Fremion “Michigan’s PBB Disaster:  Finding New Ways to Commemorate Large-scale Environmental Disasters,” The Public Historian The Public Historian (2023) 45 (2): 67–86. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.2.67.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

“Oh no. They can't read cursive!: practical ways to introduce penmanship and critical thinking activities into your archives class,” Michigan Archival Association (MAA)’s Open Entry, Spring 2025. Invited article based on my presentation on the topic at MAA 2024.

Co-author with Mariagabriella Stuardi, “Indigenous representation and inclusion: Central Michigan Universities Libraries Critical Cataloging and Reparative Description Project,” blog for SAA's Description Section’s series on Inclusive and Reparative Description practices and projects in archives, published March 10, 2025 https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/indigenous-representation-and-inclusion-central-michigan-universities-libraries-critical-cataloging-and-reparative-description-project/ 

“Virtual Internship: Encoding Finding Aid for Channel 9 & 10 News.” MAA’s Open Entry, Fall 2020, pp. 20-21.

JURIED PRESENTATIONS

Co-presented with four others, “Equitable Experiences: Building Virtual and Hybrid Internships for the Next Generation,” SAA Conference, August 15, 2024. My individual segment was “Supporting accessible student learning into the future: Digital and hybrid internships at the Clarke Historical Library-CMU.” 

Co-presented with Melissa James and Laura Thompson, “Sustainable Reparative Description and You: a Model for Libraries and Archives,” online at CORE: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures, New Orleans, LA, October 11, 2023.

Co-presented with Melissa James and Laura Thompson, “Small Team, Big Job: A Model for Sustainable Critical Cataloging and Reparative Description,” ALA Chicago, June 25, 2023.

Co-presented with Brittany Bayless Fremion, “Commemorating Michigan’s PBB Disaster: The Roles of an Archivist and a Historian,” online at ICA SUV, Sept.7, 2022. We were invited to submit an article for publication based on our presentation to the peer-reviewed Archives, a journal of the Association des Archivistes du Quebec by Nov.1, 2022.

OTHER PRESENTATIONS

Invited Presentation, “Performing into a New Reality: MI Circus Women,” Henika District Library, Wayland, Michigan, July 21, 2025.

“Restoring Trust and Building Partnerships While Amplifying Marginalized Voices: the Michigan PBB Disaster Archives at the Clarke Historical Library, CMU,” MAA, June 16, 2025.         

“From the Archives into their hearts: Successful strategies to scaffold community building, compassion, and empathy into a credit bearing class,” MAA, Detroit, June 17, 2024.

“On no! They can’t read penmanship! Practical ways to introduce penmanship and critical thinking about primary sources into your class or bibliographic instruction session,”  MAA, Detroit, June 17, 2024.

Co-presented with Gabriella Stuardi, “Indigenous representation and inclusion: CMU Libraries Critical Cataloging and Reparative Description Project,” CMU Diversity Symposium, April 25, 2024

“Oh no. They can’t read penmanship!: Primary Source Literacy and its Application for Teaching Purposes,” Society of Indiana Archivists Conference, April 19, 2024.

Invited speaker, “A practical archival approach for your PBB-related papers,” PBB 50^th Anniversary Conference, Alma University, May 20, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwVlIKoMyz8

B.A. in History from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1986

M.I.L.S. from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1988

M.A. in History from Central Michigan University, 2016. 

CMU online teaching experience certificate, 2018.

Professor Matyn is interested in everything archival and the stories of people in Michigan, US, and Indigenous history, especially the experiences of women, including circus women. Her thesis was titled “Performing into a New Reality: Michigan Female Equestrians and Fliers and their Impact on Women’s Gender Roles and Behaviors.” She also collaborates with members of the Michigan PBB Community and collects, processes, and describes their collections.

Michigan Archival Association

Midwest Archives Conference

Society of American Archivists

Association of Moving Image Archivists

Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners

Professor Matyn is a gubernatorial appointee to the Michigan State Historic Records Advisory Board.