ARCHIVED SPECIALIST PROFILE

Director
Jeannette Rankin Library Program
Co-Director
Virtual Diplomacy Initiative
(October 1994-September 2003)

Areas of Specialization

Latin America • Libraries • Information and Communications Technologies in International Relations

Foreign Language: Spanish

Background

Margarita S. Studemeister directs the Institute's Jeannette Rankin Library Program, co-directs the Virtual Diplomacy Initiative, and assists in coordinating and implementing Latin America activities. She is co-editor of the Virtual Diplomacy Series and author of articles on theoretical perspectives and applications of information and communications technologies in international conflict prevention, management, and resolution. Previously, she was director of publications at the National Security Archive, a nonprofit library, publishing, and research organization for declassified government documents, and a consultant to the World Bank. She has worked in academic, public, and special libraries, and on information technology projects.

Studemeister also served as a consultant to a variety of nongovernmental organizations dedicated to human rights and community development in Central America. She has taught computer programming and database searching at the college level and for international institutions. She holds master's degrees in library and information science, and in social science with an emphasis in Latin American studies, from the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco State University, respectively.

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