Staff

Full Time Staff

Margaret (Peggy) Bendroth

Executive Director

Peggy has served as Executive Director and Librarian for the Congregational Library since August 2004. She received her B.A. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in history from the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of several books, including Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present (Yale 1993) and Fundamentalists and the City: Conflict and Division in Boston's Churches, 1885 to 1950 (Oxford 2005), and has edited several other volumes, including Women and Twentieth-Century Protestantism (Illinois 2002). Her most recent book, A School of the Church: Andover Newton Across Two Centuries (Eerdmans 2008), was written to mark the school's bicentennial year.

Claudette Newhall

Librarian

Claudette joined the library staff at the beginning of 2005. Claudette's career was in banking and financial services before coming to the Library. She has been active in the Simmons College GSLIS Alumni Association and served as its President in 2006-2007. The challenges and opportunities that have evolved through the catalog conversion process have been both surprising and exciting for her. She looks forward to being a part of the Library as it moves into the 21st century.

Jessica Steytler

Archivist

Jess has served as the Archivist for the Congregational Library since April of 2000. She is responsible for some pretty standard archive-based activities: processing manuscript collections, answering reference, and preservation for example. She also has some less obvious responsibilities. Jessica teaches classes on records management and more recently an introductory class on using new technologies in a church setting for which she has also created educational brochures.

Robin Duckworth

Digital Projects Specialist

Robin has worked at the library since 2002, after graduating with a degree in Classics from Boston University. She has taken on many responsibilities over the years, including the organization and cataloging of the Library's many periodicals, and coordinating an overhaul of the physical collection. She is now serving as webmistress and overseeing the library's growing digital program.

Rachel Moore

Cataloger & Reference Librarian

Rachel joined the library in May 2008 to continue the work of placing the catalog online. She can also be found in the reading room, helping our patrons with their research. Rachel loves the detailed work of the cataloging process and is thrilled to be part of the efforts to make our collection more accessible to patrons near and far.

Part-Time Staff

Carolyn Hewitt, Director of Development

Cristina Prochilo, Associate Archivist

Sari Mauro, Archives Assistant

Megan Wheaton-Book, Administrative Assistant & Records Management