Uncommon Bonds is led by an advisory committee with expertise and experience in the digital archives, Labrador Inuit archival records and heritage, and Moravian archival records and heritage. Our committee oversees all aspects of the project but places particular emphasis on the management, curation and description of the digital resources being created.
Committee Documentation
Committee Members
Mark David Turner – Co-Principal Investigator
Mark David Turner is a cultural historian and facilitator who works at the intersection of media, performing arts, and archival practice in the Northwest Atlantic and Circumpolar North. He is a settler from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador and regularly works with the Nunatsiavut Government and OKâlaKatiget Society as a Manager of Audio-Visual Archives and Media Literacy. He co-owns a Labrador-based consultancy and publisher Brack and Brine. Recent publication include Inuit TakugatsaliuKatiget | On Inuit Cinema (editor) and Labrador Cinema (co-authored with Morgen Mills).
Paul Peucker – Co-Principal Investigator
Paul Peucker is archivist of the Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He holds a doctorate in history from the University of Utrecht. He got a degree in archivistics from the State Archives School in The Hague and worked as an archivist for IKON, an ecumenical public broadcaster in the Netherlands, and the Moravian Archives in Herrnhut, Germany, before becoming director at the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 2004. Paul is the managing editor of the Journal of Moravian History and the author of A Time of Sifting: Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the 18th Century (2015).
Janet Bangma
Janet Bangma is the Associate Dean of Memorial University Libraries. She holds a Master of Library and Information Science; a Master of Education in Educational Technologies; a Master of Public Health; a Master of Science in Health Informatics; and is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration. Deeply committed to life-ling learning, Janet has spent her career working at the intersection of technology and information sharing. She puts those commitments into to practice through her work on Memorial’s Digital Archives Initiative.
Thomas J. McCullough
Thomas J. McCullough is assistant archivist of the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem. He holds a master’s degree in applied history from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, and a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Thomas previously worked in academic, military, and government archives before coming to the Moravian Archives in August 2013. In support of Uncommon Bonds, Thomas serves as a liaison and metadata coordinator in connection with the digitization program of the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem.
Caitlin Horrall (Observing Member)
Caitlin Horrall is the Director of Description in the Published Heritage Branch at Library and Archives Canada. She was formerly the Corporate Secretary to the National Heritage Digitization Strategy. In this role, she helped the Steering Committee deliver on its action plan; led the development and delivery of projects; and communicated the value of the strategy to anyone who would listen.
Lena Onalik
Lena Onalik (Inuk) is the Heritage Program Coordinator with the Nunatsiavut Government’s Department of Language, Culture and Tourism (Archaeology Division) in Nain, Nunatsiavut. She is responsible for developing and implementing relevant heritage programming, as well as a community-based and field relating to different heritage issues. Originally from Makkovik, Nunatsiavut, she earned her BA in Archaeology at Memorial University in 2006. Since then, she has worked to promote her culture in a variety of roles, serving as the Nunatsiavut Government’s first Archaeologist, worked as a Culturalist with Adventure Canada and participating in the annual Trails Tales and Tunes Festival in Gros Morne National Park. Lena has a keen interest in the preservation and protection of traditional Inuit practices such as Inuit throat singing, drum dancing, and traditional clothing making.
Sarah Jensen
Sarah Jensen is the chair of the Moravian Church in Newfoundland and Labrador (MCNL), a position she has held since 2010. Originally from Makkovik, Nunatsiavut, Sarah worked in Hopedale as a Personal Care Attendant with Labrador-Grenfell Health for over 40 years. Now in semi-retirement, she is focussing upon her work with the Moravian Church to preserve and promote Moravian heritage in northern Labrador. Outside of her work with the church, Sarah serves as a member of the Hopedale Inuit Community Government, the Nunatsiavut Membership Committee for Hopedale, the women’s safe house board and the craft council strategy board for Nunatsiavut. She was awarded “Inuk Woman of the Year” for Nunatsiavut in 2019.
Joan Andersen
Joan Andersen, Makkovik, is a retired teacher who now volunteers with the White Elephant Museum Inc. In this capacity, she has a strong interest in community history. She has been a member of the Provincial Board for the Moravian Church in Newfoundland and Labrador, from 2007 to 2021, and has a strong interest in Moravian history in Labrador.
Megan Dicker Nochasak
Megan Dicker Nochasak is an Inuk youth leader from Nain, Nunatsiavut, Canada. She is currently pursuing post secondary studies in Ottawa, ON. Megan has experience in research, climate advocacy, and language revitalization. She speaks on national and international platforms related to protecting the land and the importance of Indigenous youth presence in decision-making spaces. She also enjoys writing, spending time on the water, and traveling.
Project Support
Kayla Cavenaugh – Transcription Manager
Kayla Cavenaugh works as Transcription Manager with the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, overseeing digital text transcriptions of Uncommon Bonds records and occasionally translating material from German to English. Currently based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she enjoys work that merges her interests in German language, public history, the arts, and communication. In her career she has collaborated with private researchers, museums, archives, and nonprofits. She holds two bachelor’s degrees in Art History and German from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and a certificate in German Script from the Geist Institute for Women’s Words. Kayla is co-author of The Raised Hearth: Two 18th-Century German Cookbooks in Translation (2017) and intends to enroll in a master’s program in Library Science in Fall 2023.
Jonathan Ennis – Digital Archivist
Jonathan Ennis is the digital archivist at the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem. He began working there in May, 2018 and has a masters degree in library and information science from Drexel University. His interests include digital preservation and the use of digitization to support improved access to the collections of archives and museums. For the Uncommon Bonds project he is digitizing and processing relevant material held at the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem.
Context
National Inuit Strategy on Research
Published in 2018 by Inuit Tapriit Kanatami, the NISR “outlines the coordinated actions required to improve the way Inuit Nunangat research is governed, resourced, conducted, and shared.” This includes Inuit access, ownership, and control over data and information.
Protocols for Native American Archival Materials
Developed in 2006, these protocols are meant to help guide libraries and archives in engaging in culturally responsive care of Native American archival materials and in providing culturally appropriate service to communities.