Eric Milenkiewicz

Eric Milenkiewicz is the Head of Special Collections & University Archives in the John M. Pfau Library. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, Riverside (1999) and earned his Master of Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archival Studies from San Jose State University (2007). He currently oversees the library's Special Collections & University Archives department, providing leadership for the selection, description, management, and preservation of the library's rare book and archival collections. Additionally, he participates in outreach activities, delivers instructional workshops, and provides reference/research consultations on library archival holdings to the campus and local communities. He is also actively involved in the profession and community, having served three times on the Executive Board of the Society of California Archivists, most recently as the President of the Society of California Archivists in 2020, and is a Commissioner on the County of Riverside Archives Commission. Prior to CSUSB, he worked as an Archivist at the UC Riverside Library for 13 years.

Publications

Crane, Lisa, Eric Milenkiewicz, Sarah Jones, and Andrew Lippert. “The Shared Waters of the West: Archival Materials in California and Nevada about the Colorado River.” Journal of Arizona History 65, no.3 (2024): 309-337. link: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/942144 

Milenkiewicz, Eric L. "Leveraging the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials to Support Indigenous Digital Collections: A Case Study from the Sherman Indian Museum Digital Project." Journal of Western Archives 15, no. 1 (2024): 1-19. link: https://doi.org/10.59620/2154-7149.1179

Milenkiewicz, Eric L. "Increasing Access to American Indian Off-Reservation Boarding School Archives: Sherman Indian Museum Digital Project." The Public Historian 45, no. 4 (2023): 26-46. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.26

Milenkiewicz, Eric. “The Bridges That Carried Us Over: Documenting Black History in California's Inland Empire.” Archival Outlook (July/August 2022): 4-5, 17. link: https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=30305&i=753409&p=6&ver=html5

Awards & Honors

Society of California Archivists’ Sustained Service Award (2022)

Harvard University Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians (2024 Cohort)

Journal of Western Archives' Honorable Mention Best General Interest Article Award for the period 2020-2024 for "Leveraging the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials to Support Indigenous Digital Collections: A Case Study from the Sherman Indian Museum Digital Project" (2025)