About me
Eric Dawson is Manager of the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, the Special Collections and History department of the Knox County Public Library. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and a Master’s degree in Information Science, both from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He was Arts & Entertainment editor of the alt-weekly newspaper Knoxville Voice, and he continues to contribute articles to various publications on the history of film and music in Tennessee. Before assuming the role of Manager at the McClung Collection, he served as Audio-Visual Archivist of the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound (TAMIS), the audio-visual component of the McClung Collection. He has created several archival films incorporating TAMIS’s home movie and newsreel collections, including Electric Appalachia and Suttree.
