Professor Timothy G. Nutt Appointed Interim Head of Special Collections Department

Professor Timothy G. Nutt. Photo by Russell Cothren.
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Professor Timothy G. Nutt. Photo by Russell Cothren.

Dean Carolyn Henderson Allen is pleased to announce that Associate Librarian Timothy G. Nutt has been appointed interim head of the special collections department of University Libraries. A search committee is being formed to fill the position formerly held by Tom Dillard, who retired Jan. 30, after seven years of dedicated service.

Professor Nutt has been serving as assistant head of the special collections department and as manuscripts and rare books librarian since 2005. In that time, he has acquired more than 300 manuscript and book collections and overseen the processing of 185 collections. He continues to build relationships throughout the state by making frequent trips to gather and solicit donor collections and present topics of interest to various Arkansas groups and historical societies.

The Honors College awarded Nutt with the Distinguished Faculty Award in 2011 for mentoring Honors College students in archival practices as well as his contributions to teaching and research.

Nutt has published extensively on Arkansas history and also writes, directs and performs in historical reenactments for the Washington County Historical Society.

His scholarly and professional activities include a recent article in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly on the Little Rock Censor Board and entries for the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture.

He has served as editor of the “Perry County Historical & Genealogical Society Newsletter” and of the Washington County Historical Society publication Flashback as well as the co-editor of the Pulaski County Historical Review. He serves as vice-president/president-elect of the Arkansas Historical Association, as board member of the Arkansas History Education Coalition, as executive board member of the Society of Southwest Archivists, and on the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission. In 2005, Nutt was inducted into the Academy of Certified Archivists—one of only 13 people in the state of Arkansas.

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