Kerin Shellenbarger has been working with the photographic collection of Charles “Teenie” Harris at Carnegie Museum of Art since 2002. She became the photo archivist for the collection in 2005, when the museum was awarded an NEH grant to catalog and digitize his collection of 80,000 negatives. Previously, she was the reference librarian for the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. She has also processed photographic archives at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, worked in academic visual resource collections, and performed independent genealogical and historical research.