Ohio University
Business Analytics Graduate Certificate / October 2025 (Expected)
Rutgers University
Digital Asset Management Certificate / March 2025 (Expected)
University of Southern Mississippi
Master of Library and Information Science / May 2024
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Arts in History / May 2020
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum
Assistant Editor, Papers of Abraham Lincoln (Executive II) / On-site / October 2024 - Present
Northeastern University Library
CRRJ Archives Assistant / Remote / April 2023 - Present
Create and quality control MODS metadata and XML templates for digital collections comprising the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project's Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, documenting African Americans’ experiences with state and federal law enforcement and criminal justice systems in the South and beyond.
Ohio University Libraries
Senior Specialist, Metadata Services / Hybrid / September 2023 - October 2024
Cataloged library resources in all formats for OU main campus, five regional campuses, and OhioLINK consortium, and support the growth and metadata operations of OHIO Open Library Institutional Repository.
Served as a staff mentor for the 2024-25 OhioLINK Luminaries Intern.
University of Southern Mississippi Libraries
Metadata Coordinator / On-site / September 2022 - August 2023
Managed the creation, enhancement, and transformation of metadata for digital resources in the University Libraries' Digital Collections, digital humanities collaborations, grant projects, the Mississippi Digital Library, and related initiatives.
Visiting Digital Archivist / Remote / June 2020 - September 2022
Oversaw all metadata documentation, training, creation, quality control, and management for 10,000+ digitized archival materials as the full-time Digital Archivist and Metadata Lead for the Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project (CWRGM).
Assistant Editor, digital documentary edition at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum / October 2024 - Present
Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project
Cataloger, digital archive at Northeastern University / April 2023 - Present
Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi
Digital Archivist and Metadata Lead, interinstitutional digital documentary edition / June 2020 - September 2022
"Here I Have Lived:" Recreating the Land of Lincoln
Curator, exhibit at the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections / Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
History Harvest at the University of Illinois
Digitization/Web Development Team Member, Omeka digital community archive / Fall 2019
“Red Fox/Second Hangin’” - Appalshop at 50
Co-curator, exhibit at Appalshop / Summer 2019
Labor Organization at UIUC
Co-curator, Omeka digital exhibit at the University of Illinois / Spring 2018
Justice, Austin. “Managing Team Projects in a Pandemic: The Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi.” Mississippi Libraries 85, no. 2 (Summer 2022). https://aquila.usm.edu/ml/vol85/iss2/1.
Justice, Austin R., Artur Stasiek, and Archana Upadhyay. “‘Stamping It Out’ (1880): Imagining the Second Anglo-Afghan War” SourceLab 1, no. 3 (2018). https://doi.org/10.21900/j.sourcelab.v1.442.
“Discovering the Secret Stash: How State and Local Archives Can Enhance Your Project.” Panel presented with Alan Wheat, Hayden McDaniel, and Matthew Guillen. Southeastern Museums Conference, October 26, 2022.
“Lessons Learned Managing Team Projects in a Pandemic: The Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi.” Presented with Elizabeth La Beaud. Mississippi Library Association Annual Conference, October, 2021.
Southeastern Archives Association
Secretary / May 2022 - August 2023
Kentucky State Historical Records Advisory Board
Citizen-at-Large Board Member / September 2021 - September 2022
Ohio University
Luminaries Committee & Mentor / May 2024 - October 2024
University of Southern Mississippi
Digitization Specialist Search Committee / May 2023 - August 2023
Electronic Resources Specialist Search Committee / 2023
CWRGM Archives Assistant Search Committee / 2021
NASIG
2023 Specialist Award
Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
2022 Scott Hartwig Public History Fellow Scholarship
Mississippi Historical Society
2022 Excellence in History Award (presented to the CWRGM Team)
Midwest Archives Conference
2021 Fall Symposium Scholarship
McCormick Civil War Institute at Shenandoah University
2021 Conference Educator Scholarship