Jen Hoyer

Writing

Explore a selection of my writing below; check out more on my Google Scholar profile

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About pedagogy in archives and teaching with primary sources

Hoyer, Jen, and Anne Bahde. “Evidence-Based Shared Agendas for Scholarship on Teaching with Primary Sources: Reflections on a Bibliometric Analysis.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 51, no. 5 (September 1, 2025): 103101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103101. Click here to read this online for free through August, 2025.

Pelaez, Julia, and Jen Hoyer. “It’s so Liberating to Do the Work: Education in Archives Creates Space for People with Disabilities.” In Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession, edited by Gracen Brilmyer and Tang Lydia, 187–219. Series on Archives, Archivists, and Society 10. Sacramento, CA: Litwin Books, 2024. Click here to read this for free online.

Hoyer, Jen, Kaitlin Holt, John Voiklis, Bennett Attaway, and Rebecca Joy Norlander. “Redesigning Program Assessment for Teaching with Primary Sources: Understanding the Impacts of Our Work.” The American Archivist 85, no. 2 (2022): 443–79. Click here to read this for free online.

Hoyer, Jen, Kaitlin Holt, and Julia Pelaez. What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom. Libraries Unlimited, 2022. Click here to learn more about the book.
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Click here to read the lesson plan on analyzing historic maps for free in School Library Connection.

Hoyer, Jen. “The News Is History: Building News Literacy Skills with Historic Primary Sources.” In News Literacy Across the Undergraduate Curriculum. Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2024. Click here to read this online for free.

Hoyer, Jen. “Using a Standards Crosswalk to Adapt Resources for Teaching with Primary Sources Across K–12 and Higher Education.” Archival Issues 41, no. 2 (August 1, 2022). Click here to read this online for free.

Hoyer, Jen. “Out of the Archives and into the Streets: Teaching with Primary Sources to Cultivate Civic Engagement.” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies 7, no. 1 (April 21, 2020). Click here to read this online for free.

Hoyer, J., Holt, K., and Pelaez, J. (2018). Crafting a Research Question: Differentiated Teaching for Instruction With Primary Sources Across Diverse Learning Levels. Case Studies on Teaching with Primary Sources. Society of American Archivists. Click here to read this for free online.

About archiving activism and activist archives

Hoyer, Jen, and Nora Almeida. The Social Movement Archive. Sacramento, CA: Litwin Books, 2021. Click here to learn more about the book.
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Hoyer, Jennifer. “Possible Futures for Colonial Collecting Institutions: A Study of Historical Societies in the United States.” transfer – Zeitschrift für Provenienzforschung und Sammlungsgeschichte | Journal for Provenance Research and the History of Collection 2 (December 20, 2023): 218–25. Click here to read this for free online.

Descartes, Jan, Michele Hardesty, Jen Hoyer, Maggie Schreiner, and Brooke Shuman. “Anti-Fascism in the Archive: Interference Archive’s Collaboration with No. NOT EVER.” Radical History Review 2020, no. 138 (October 1, 2020): 179–91. Click here to read this online.

Hoyer, J., and Almeida, N (2019). The Living Archive in the Anthropocene. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies. Vol 2.3. Click here to read this for free online.

Hoyer, J., Gordon, B., Hanna, L., and Ordaz, V. (2016). Archives, Education, and Access: Learning at Interference Archive. Radical Teacher, 105, 54-60. Click here to read this for free online.

Sellie, A., Goldstein, J., Fair, M., Hoyer, J. (2015). Interference Archive: a free space for social movement culture. Archival Science, 15(4), 453-472. Click here to read this for free online.

About radical history

Hanna, Lani, Jen Hoyer, Josh MacPhee, Vero Ordaz, and Sarah Seidman, eds. Armed by Design: Posters and Publications of Cuba’s Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL). Brooklyn, NY: Common Notions, 2025.

Shuman, Brooke Darrah, Hoyer, Jen, and Josh MacPhee. Defend / Defund: A Visual History of Organizing against the Police. Brooklyn, NY: Common Notions, 2023.

Hoyer, Jen, and Justin Mugits. Walkout: A Brief History of Student Organizing. Brooklyn, NY: Interference Archive, 2020.

Brad Duncan with Interference Archive (Jen Hoyer and Josh MacPhee, editors). Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979. IBrooklyn, NY: Common Notions, 2017.