Daniel Meyer

Daniel Meyer is director of the Special Collections Research Center and university archivist in the University of Chicago Library. He received his PhD in American history from the University of Chicago. In addition to the Goodspeed Manuscript Collection, other special collections digitization initiatives he has managed include American Environmental Photographs, The First American West, and the University of Chicago Photographic Archive. He is currently collaborating in online and public programs for Chicago Collections, a consortium of Chicago-area libraries and museums, and planning events next year marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first controlled sustained nuclear chain reaction by Enrico Fermi and his colleagues on the Manhattan Project.