Anne J. Gilliland

Anne J. Gilliland

Moore Hall 3039D
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521

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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.

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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Gilliland, Anne J. and Kathy Carbone. “Movement and Transformation: Teaching to the Fourth Dimension.” In Defining a Discipline: Archival Research and Practice in the 21st. Century: Essays in Honor of Richard J. Cox, Jeannette Bastian and Elizabeth Yakel, eds. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2020).
  • Gilliland, Anne J. “Simply ‘Archives’: A Recordkeeping Post-custodial Perspective.” In “All Shook Up”: The Archival Legacy of Terry Cook, Schwartz, J., T. Nesmith and G. Bak, eds. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2020).
  • Gilliland, Anne J. and Tamara Štefanac. “Post-x: Community-based Archiving in Croatia.” Chapter 10 in Community Archives, Community Spaces: Heritage, Memory and Identity, Andrew Flinn and Jeannette Bastian, eds. (London: Facet, 2020), pp. 165-184.
  • Willer, Mirna, Anne J. Gilliland, and Marijana Tomic, eds, Authenticity, Provenance, Authority and Evidence: Selected Papers from the Conference and School on Authenticity, Provenance, Authority and Evidence, University of Zadar, Croatia, October 2016, (Zadar: University of Zadar Press, 2018).
  • Gilliland, Anne J., Sue McKemmish and Andrew J Lau, eds. Research in the Archival Multiverse (Social Informatics Monograph Series, Monash University Press, 2016).
  • Gilliland, Anne J. Conceptualizing Twenty-first-century Archives (Chicago, IL: Society of American Archivists, 2014).