Suzanne Schadl (she/her) is the director of the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections as well as a professor in the College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences (CULLS) at the University of New Mexico. She previously served as chief of the Latin American, Caribbean and European Division (2021-2025) and chief of the Hispanic Division (2018-2021) at the Library of Congress. Prior to these leadership appointments, Suzanne was curator of the Latin American collections in CULLS (2008-2018), director of the Gerald and Betty Ford Library at the Bosque School (2004-2008), assistant professor of history at Roanoke College (2002-2004) and lecturer in history at the University of Texas in Austin (1999). She earned a doctorate in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Spanish from the Ohio State University. Suzanne’s research interests center direct community engagement with library and archival collections following the philosophy of Brazilian playwright Augusto Boal who encouraged audience members to join performers on the stage as “spect-actors.” Suzanne’s collaborative works and the annual publication of the Handbook of Latin American studies, edited in the divisions she oversaw at the Library of Congress, operationalize the direct engagement of library and archival creators AND users with collection items AND outreach.     

Scholarship in the Sandbox: Academic Libraries as Laboratories, Forums, and Archives for Student Work, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2019. (Co-Editors: Amy S. Jackson and Cindy Pierard)

Getting Up for the People: the Visual Revolution of ASAR-Oaxaca, PM Press, 2014. (Co-Authors: ASARO, Mike Graham de la Rosa)

"Tomes! enhancing community and embracing diversity through book arts." Radical Teacher 112 (2018): 55-66. (Co Authors: Stephanie Beene and Lauri González)

“Borderlands Reinvented and Revisited: Third Space Intersections of Portuguese Language Literature in Print and Image” SALALM #60 Brazil in the World, the World in Brazil: Research Trends and Library Resources. Ed. Luis Gonzalez New Orleans: SALALM Secretariat (2017): pg. 200-2012 (Co-Authors: Viviane Faria).

“Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Languages and Literatures” in RCL: Resources for College Libraries, Electronic Database (reviewed 2016, 2014, and 2012).

AfroBrasil: Art and Identities, National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, December 2014-August 2015, Curator, Tey Mariana Nunn w/ David Hernandez Rivero, Meghan Ferguson, Viviane Faria and Suzanne M. Schadl)

“Uncommons: Transforming Dusty Reading Rooms into Artefactual, “Third Space” Library Learning Labs,” Journal of Learning Spaces 4:1 (2015) (Co-Authors Molly Nelson and Kristen S. Valencia).

“Cite Globally, Analyze Locally: Citation Analysis from a Local Latin American Studies Perspective,” College and Research Libraries 76:2 (2015): 136-149 (Co-Authors- Marina Todeschini).

Getting Up Pal Pueblo: Tagging ASAR-Oaxaca Prints and Stencils, National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, February 2014-October 2014 (Co-Curator Mike Graham de la Rosa).

“Reference as Outreach: Meeting Users Where They Are,” Journal of Library Administration 51:4 (May 2011) 343- 358 (Co-Authors: Paulita Aguilar, Kathleen Keating, and Johann van Reenen).

"Exile and Montage: Josep Renau's Reckoning with Community and Self", Sin Frontera: Revista Académica y Literaria (Spring 2010):16 pgs. (Co-Authors: Claire-Lise Bénaud).