Meaghan O’Riordan
Director
Meaghan O’Riordan began as the Director for the Archives for the Southern Province on August 15, 2022. Previously, she was the Accessioning Archivist at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library from 2016-2022. While at Emory, she was responsible for shepherding special collections material from the point of selection to the point it was made available for research in the Reading Room. Meaghan managed the collections for the Rose Library, which totaled more than 35,000 linear feet of archives and manuscript collections and 130,000 rare books and serials. She was a key member of the implementation team for Emory’s instance of the collection management software, ArchivesSpace, and wrote the accessioning section of the processing manual for her unit.
Apart from her work at Emory, Meaghan is also active in the Archives profession. She was the co-chair of the national Best Practices for Archival Accessioning Working Group for the Society of American Archivists (SAA), which published the Best Practices with approval from the Standards Committee of SAA in November 2024. With her co-chair and research partner, Rosemary K.J. Davis, Meaghan was awarded a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for nearly $250,000 to further their work on best practices for archival accessioning. The Best Practices group was also awarded an SAA Council Exemplary Service Award at the annual meeting in August 2024.
Meaghan is also the founder and chair of the Airtable for Archives Community of Practice. She served on the Steering Committee as a Member-at-Large for the Accessioning, Acquisitions & Appraisal Section from 2020-2024. She has given more than 25 professional presentations and has authored or coauthored 8 professional publications. Most recently, she coauthored the article, “It’s All on the Table: Case Studies on Improved Workflow Management Using Airtable” in the Journal of Archival Organization (2024).
Meaghan simultaneously earned two bachelors degrees at North Carolina State University, one in English with a focus on creative writing and one in religious studies, graduating summa cum laude with election to Phi Beta Kappa (Academic Honor Society) in 2009. She holds two masters degrees, one in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and one in Theological Studies from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University (with transferring credits from Duke University). While in library school, Meaghan began her career as a Library Associate for the Special Collections Research Center at N.C. State.
A native of Welcome, North Carolina, and graduate of North Davidson Senior High School, Meaghan is very familiar with the Moravian Church and its history, and she has some training in reading German. She was the North Davidson Public Library’s first ever volunteer. She and her husband, Simon, were married in St. Philips Moravian Church. She currently resides in Winston-Salem with Simon and their two cats, Asterix and Garth.
Sabrina Garity
Assistant Director
In her position at Boston College’s Law Library, Sabrina worked with the IT department to migrate the digital repository from one platform to another, ensuring the successful transfer of dozens of collections and thousands of items, as well as coordinating a new workflow for faculty publications. She also increased the Law Library’s social media presence. Since starting that initiative, the Law Library’s Instagram profile engagement regularly exceeds 25% and reaches 5 time as many accounts as it has followers. She also designed a scavenger hunt that connected the online outreach with in-person engagement.
Prior to Boston College, Sabrina had a career in education, teaching English as a Second Language, English Composition, and English Literature at Fisher College and South College. She was also the Resource Center Coordinator for South College.
She previously earned a masters in creative non-fiction writing from the New School and a bachelors degree in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Sabrina is originally from Midway, North Carolina, and graduated from North Davidson Senior High School. She has been fascinated by the history of Old Salem since her elementary school field trips. She currently resides in Winston-Salem with her cat, Figaro.
Samantha Tullis
Research Services Archivist
Samantha Tullis began serving as the Research Services Archivist for the Archives of the Southern Province on January 6, 2025. In this role, she oversees research services, archival access, and community engagement initiatives while supporting the preservation and interpretation of the collections of the Moravian Archives. She previously served as the Adult Services Librarian and Communications Manager at the Meredith Public Library in Meredith, New Hampshire, while completing her Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree at Simmons University.
Samantha earned her MLIS from Simmons University in May 2024, graduating magna cum laude with a concentration in Archives Management and a Preservation track. During her time at Simmons, she was selected from hundreds of applicants to participate in an international archives and librarianship program in Paris, hosted by East Carolina University, where she explored global archival practices and engaged with international repositories.
With a special interest in German history, material culture, and preservation, Samantha has pursued projects that connect archival scholarship with public engagement. She secured a national grant from the American Library Association (ALA) in partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) to support a six-week traveling World War II exhibition, for which she developed and coordinated thirteen accompanying educational programs. She was also recently awarded a Catalyst Grant from the Society of American Archivists (SAA) to develop the Moravian Archives Name Variant Control Framework (MANVCF), a project establishing standardized approaches for identifying, evaluating, documenting, and managing historical personal name variants to improve authority control and archival discoverability.
Samantha’s professional interests include archival description, genealogical research, German history, folklore and cultural traditions, material culture, and the use of technology to expand access to historical resources. She specializes in conducting historical research, including working with German-language records and handwritten sources such as Kurrent script, to assist researchers in uncovering connections within archival collections.
Samantha also holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she graduated magna cum laude and was inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society. In September 2026, she will begin a second master’s degree in Irish Folklore and Mythology at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland, where her coursework will also include archival practices and the study of how cultural memory is documented and preserved, complementing her professional work in archives and special collections, while further expanding her study of folklore, cultural heritage, and the preservation of traditional narratives, including the Moravian presence in Ireland.
Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Samantha now resides in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she continues to strengthen connections between people and history through her work in archives and special collections. Her dedication to preservation, scholarship, and public access guides her approach as an archivist.