Judith Goodstein came to Caltech as the Institute's first archivist in 1968. Since then she has become a faculty associate and Caltech's registrar. Dr. Goodstein earned her BA from Brooklyn College and her PhD from the University of Washington. Her fields of research include the history of chemistry, twentieth-century Italian mathematicians and modern American science.

Her first book, Millikan's School, was published in 1991, and she is also the co-author with David Goodstein of the best selling Feynman's Lost Lecture. The Volterra Chronicles, detailing the career of Vito Volterra and published by the American Mathematical Society, is set to appear in late 2005.

 
Charlotte (Shelley) Erwin - Associate Archivist

Shelley Erwin holds a BA in English from Vassar College and a PhD in Music History from Yale. She joined the Archives staff part-time in 1988 and was appointed Associate Archivist in 1992. In 1996 she was certified by the Academy of Certified Archivists. She is responsible for collection development, processing and preservation, as well as for archival procedures and services. She also conducts oral histories and does writing and editing for a variety of projects, including exhibits. Her most recent work includes the connections between Throop Polytechnic and the Craftsman movement, Kepler's use of music in understanding the heavens, Einstein's relationship with Caltech, and 17th-century British dissenters.

Telephone: (626) 395-2702,  Fax: (626) 793-8756,   Email: cerwin@caltech.edu

Bonnie Ludt - Administrative Assistant

Bonnie Ludt received her BA in Business Administration/Economics from Chapman College. She joined the Archives staff in 1990 after having been on the Caltech Libraries staff since 1964. She assists researchers in the Archives, in addition to working with publishers and researchers seeking photographs and film and video material. She also does photo scanning for the Archives' PhotoNet, keeps our databases up to date, and does general office management..

Telephone: (626) 395-2704,  Fax: (626) 793-8756,   Email: bludt@caltech.edu

 
Kevin C. Knox - Associate Archivist

Kevin Knox joined the Archives staff in 2000 after completing his postdoctoral work at Caltech as Ahmanson Instructor in the Humanities. He was awarded his PhD from Cambridge University for his dissertation on Georgian natural philosophy and has since published numerous works on the topic. More recently, with Richard Noakes, he published From Newton to Hawking. He has also been involved in a number of multimedia projects related to the history of science. At the Institute Archives, Knox's duties include processing collections, the digitization of materials, the preservation of rare materials and assisting researchers. Recently, he has curated several online exhibits and has worked on the Archives' Oral Histories Online and Finding Aids Online projects.

Telephone: (626) 395-2501,  Fax: (626) 793-8756,   Email: kck@caltech.edu

Shirley K. Cohen

Loma Karklins 

Sara Lippincott

 
Archives Web Site

The Caltech Archives web site was created by Caltech alumnus, Glenn Carlyle Smith, President of GCS Solutions LLC. Glenn did the web design, and created the database backend, automated web publishing system, and search system that serves the database content.

GCS Solutions LLC has been providing databases, web applications, and custom software in the Pasadena area since 1990.