Anne J. Gilliland

Professor

Anne Gilliland’s extensive career in research and teaching addresses the history, nature, human impact, and technologies associated with archives, recordkeeping and memory, particularly in translocal and international contexts. A Fellow of the Society of American Archivists and recipient of numerous awards in archival and information studies, she has held Honorary Research Fellow appointments with the Centre for Global Research, RMIT University in Melbourne, the University of Liverpool Department of History and the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow. She has served as a NORSLIS (Nordic Research School in Library and Information Science) Professor at Tampere University, Finland; Lund University, Sweden; and the Royal School, Denmark. She has also taught courses as a visiting faculty member at Renmin University of China and the University of Zadar, Croatia.

Departments

Department of Information Studies

Programs

Post Master's Certificate of Specialization in Information Studies

Interests

Expertise

Research Centers

Titles and Positions

Professor of Information Studies
Director, Center for Information as Evidence

Education

Ph.D., Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan
M.S. and C.A.S., Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., English Language and Literature, Trinity College, University of Dublin

Select Publications

Gilliland, Anne J. “Future Perfect? Affect-aware, History-informed, Future-oriented Archive-making.” In Ilaria Scaglia and Valeria Vanesio, eds. Archives and Emotions (Bloomsbury Series on History of Emotions), 2024.
Lee, Seul and Anne J. Gilliland. “Evolving Definitions of Hate Speech: The Impact of a Lack of Standardized Definitions,” Full Research Paper, iConference 2024 Proceedings (April 2024).
Halilovich, Hariz and Anne J. Gilliland. “Digitality and the Reconfigured Global Archive(s) of Forced Migration,” essay in Alison Wiggins and Andrew Prescott, eds., Archives: Power, Truth and Fiction (Oxford University Press, 21st-Century Approaches to Literature Series) (2023), pp. 53-68.
Gilliland, Anne J. and Marianna Hovhannisyan. “Displaced, Un-placed, Re-placed: Armenian Archives and Archival Imaginaries in the US,” Chapter 9, Disputed Archival Heritage, James Lowry, ed. (Routledge, 2022), pp.233-261, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003057765
Saqib Sheikh, Anne J. Gilliland, Philipp Kothe and James Lowry. “Distributed Records in the Rohingya Refugee Diaspora: Arweave and the R-Archive,” Journal of Documentation (2022), doi/10.1108/JD-08-2022-0174/full/html
Fan, Lizhou, Huizi Yu and Anne J. Gilliland. “Using Data-driven Analytics to Enhance Archival Processing of the COVID-19 Hate Speech Twitter Archive (CHSTA),” ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 15, no. 3 (2022), doi.acm.org?doi=3547146.
Carbone, Kathy, Anne J. Gilliland, Sue McKemmish and Greg Rolan. “Towards a Framework of Human Rights in Records: A Critical Analysis and Comparison of Two Contexts,” in Toeppe, K, Yan. H., and Chu, S.K.W. (Ed.s.) Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue: 16th International Conference, iConference 2021, Beijing, China, March 17–31, 2021, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Springer (2021).
Carbone, Kathy, Anne J. Gilliland and María Montenegro. “Rights in and to Records and Recordkeeping: Fighting Bureaucratic Violence through a Human Rights-Centered Approach to the Creation, Management and Dissemination of Documentation,” Education for Information (October 2020): 1-24, DOI: 10.3233/EFI-190359.
Gilliland, Anne J. and James Lowry. “Human Security Informatics, Global Grand Challenges and Digital Curation,” International Journal of Digital Curation, 14, no.1 (2020), http://www.ijdc.net/article/view/636.
Gilliland, Anne J. and Kathy Carbone. “An Analysis of Warrant for Rights in Records for Refugees,” International Journal for Human Rights 4, no.4 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2019.1651295