Roberto G. Trujillo

Frances & Charles Field Curator of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries (b. 1951).

Roberto G. Trujillo is the Frances & Charles Field Curator of Special Collections at the Stanford University Libraries. He played a central role in the acquisition of the R. Buckminster Fuller Papers by Stanford in 1999, working with Fuller's daughter Allegra Fuller Snyder, grandson Jaime Snyder, and university librarian Michael A. Keller to bring the enormous archive to campus. The acquisition was a singular event for the Libraries, both because of the size and scope of the collection and because of the new critical readings of Fuller that it promised.

As co-editor of New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller (Stanford University Press, 2009) with Hsiao-Yun Chu, Trujillo contributed the Preface, which recounts the story of how the Fuller archive came to Stanford and the scholarly activity it generated. Under his curatorial oversight, the collection attracted immediate faculty interest for teaching and research, inspiring seminars, dissertations, museum exhibitions, and scholarly articles across disciplines from design and architecture to American studies.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: chronicler. Trujillo's connection to R. Buckminster Fuller is institutional and archival. As the curator who oversaw the acquisition and stewardship of Fuller's papers at Stanford, he ensured that the archive — tens of thousands of letters, manuscripts, models, and recordings — found a home where it could generate new scholarship. He co-edited New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller with Hsiao-Yun Chu, assembling the interdisciplinary essays that reread Fuller through his documents rather than through his self-told legend. His contribution is that of a custodian and facilitator of the archival record rather than a participant in Fuller's projects.

See Also

• New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller — the collection he co-edited
• Hsiao-Yun Chu — co-editor of the anthology

Sources

• New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller (source reference) — Zotero record for the anthology