Stephen Urgola has been University Archivist at the American University in Cairo (AUC) in Egypt since 2001, where he manages the university’s historic records, records management program, and collections of primary sources in the Archives at AUC’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library, where he has served as Interim Associate Dean since 2021. He also leads the Archives’ oral history efforts and has managed several externally and internally grant funded projects at RBSCL. Before coming to Egypt he held positions with the University Archives of Columbia University in New York City and the Archives of the Jesuit Province of New England at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester Massachusetts, and served an archives fellowship at Duke University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library in Durham, North Carolina. He holds a Master’s degree and certificate in archival management from New York University (1998) and an undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross (1994).