Meet the Staff
Annika Peterson
University Archivist
Annika has a B.A. in history and mathematics from NMU, an MA in history from the University of Rochester, and an MLIS from Wayne State University. In her free time, she enjoys reading, hiking, and spending time with her two cats.
Samantha Pynnonen
Collections Manager
Samantha is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she received her MLIS in Library and Archival Administration. Samantha has worked at several Michigan archives and libraries where she has processed, digitized, and researched local collections.
She most recently volunteered with two Detroit-based museums, where she once got to clean a triceratops’s metatarsal bone (but only one). Samantha is excited to be working with paper and digital materials again in da UP, and hopes to keep the archives cool with her underutilized knowledge of Tolkien and bee behavior.