Research Interests:

• Las Cruces Urban Renewal
• History of the NMSU Library
• History of Teton Dam (Idaho)
• Water Resources in the American West

Committees:

• New Mexico State University Library Outreach & Programming Committee, 2020 – present
• New Mexico State University Public Art Committee, 2020 – present
• New Mexico Library Association Archives & Archivists Special Interest Group, 2021 – present
• Society of Southwest Archivists Executive Board, 2020 – 2022
• Society of Southwest Archivists Professional Development Committee (Chair), 2021 – 2022

Recent Projects and Publications:

• Journal Article, “Ephemera as a Versatile Primary Resource: A Case Study of the Nancy Tucker Postcard Collection,” Journal of Western Archives, 15 (1): Article 6.
• Exhibition, “The Amadors: Family, Culture, and Identity in early Las Cruces; Los Amador: Familia, Cultura e Identidad en Las Cruces de Ayer,” Branigan Cultural Center, October 20, 2023 – January 13, 2024.
• Journal Article, “ The Las Cruces Murals of Tom Lea,” Southern New Mexico Historical Review 29 (January 2022): 1-17.
• Lectures, "A Brief History of Las Cruces Downtown Urban Renewal Project N. Mex. R-4," Doña Ana County Historical Society (October 22, 2021) and Branigan Cultural Center (November 17, 2021).
• Exhibition, “Place & Re-Place: Las Cruces Urban Renewal, 1960-1975,” Branigan Cultural Center, October 15, 2021 – January 15, 2022.
• Book Review, Scouting with the Buffalo Soldiers: Lieutenant Powhatan Clarke, Frederic Remington, and the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in the Southwest, by John P. Langellier, Journal of Arizona History 62, no. 3 (Autumn 2021): 409-411.
• Journal Article, “Gotham West: The Transformation of the New Mexico State University Library, 1972-1977,” Southern New Mexico Historical Review, 28 (January 2021): 11-31.
• Book Review, Defining a Discipline: Archival Research and Practice in the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of Richard J. Cox, edited by Jeannette A. Bastian and Elizabeth Yakel, Journal of Western Archives 11, issue 1 article 6.
• Book Chapter, “The Deaccession and Transfer of the KOVR-TV News Film.” In Reappraisal and Deaccessioning in Archives and Special Collections, edited by Laura Uglean Jackson, 173-184. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.

Before coming to the NMSU Library in February 2019, Dylan worked as the deputy city historian and manuscripts archivist at the Center for Sacramento History and taught at California State University, Sacramento. He earned his MA in History from Boise State University and is a certified archivist. Dylan is an active member of the Society of American Archivists, the Society of Southwest Archivists, and the National Council on Public History.