Carpenter will lead the University Archives & Special Collections department in all aspects of archival management, including the identification, assessment, acquisition, description, storage, access, preservation and disposal of archives in all formats.
Prior to coming to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, Carpenter served as the Director of Archives and Library Services at the J. Craig Venter Institute in San Diego, California and as a Manuscript and Congressional Archivist at the University of Arizona.