Emma Johansen Esposito

A Reconciliatory Body: Decolonizing the Bullitt Family Papers and Dismantling White Supremacy in the Archive

Collections Essay published in the Ohio Valley History Journal in spring 2022

Land Lines: Modes of Communication in Kentucky’s Queer Past and Present

Esposito’s Senior Honors Thesis, approved in May 2021 and awarded the Best College Honors Thesis Project for Social Sciences Division, as well as the Anne Braden Institute Social Justice Research Paper Award

Y’all Means All: The Southern Queer Experience and Grassroots Archives as Places of Remembrance

Section of Esposito’s Senior Honors Thesis that was published in the University of Louisville’s undergraduate research journal, The Cardinal Edge, in September 2021

“They Say in Harlan County, There Are No Neutrals There”: The US Coal and Coke Company Photograph Album and the Preservation of Appalachian History

Up-and-Comers Column written for the Midwest Archives Conference Newsletter, published in January 2022

Metadata as Restorative Justice: A Case Study of the Sanders-Bullitt Digital Collection

Dual columns published for the National Council on Public History’s History@Work blog, published December 2021 and January 2022

Burn, Destroy, Suppress: Queer Archival Privacy, Ken Duckett, and Archival Banditry

Short essay written in May 2025 for Lydia Spotts’ course, LIS-S581: Archives and Records Management, at IU-Indianapolis

Celebrating Eastern Kentucky’s Gay Rights Pioneer: Lige Clarke

Column written for Queer Kentucky, published in February 2022