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04/04/2024
Kay Grigsby
Inaugural Grant Price Endowed Archivist
KAY GRIGSBY
Kay Grigsby earned her Bachelor of Arts in history and anthropology, as well as a certificate in museum studies, from the University of Iowa. She later earned a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Most recently, Grigsby served as the resource management librarian at Graceland University, and before that, she was the archives and special collections librarian at Des Moines University.
At the University of Iowa, she served as a collections processing intern where she processed the collections of two university professors and fell in love with the archives.
The Grant Price Endowed Archivist position was established through a $1.2 million gift from David McCartney and James Petersen of Iowa City. The position is named for the pioneering Iowa broadcast journalist and former chair of the college’s communication arts department. It is the college’s 21st endowed position and the eighth in the past decade.
