Anna Robinson-Sweet (she/her)

Ph.D. in Information Studies

Anna Robinson-Sweet is a PhD candidate in Information Studies at UCLA, where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities. Working at the intersection of critical archival studies, critical prison studies, and digital humanities, her qualitative research looks at how memory work about incarceration helps communities imagine and enact non-carceral futures. At UCLA, Anna works with the Community Archives Lab and teaches in the Community Engagement and Social Change program. Anna’s award-winning research has been published in Archivaria, American Archivist, Journal of Critical Archival Studies, and KULA, among others.

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Education

  • MLIS, Simmons University, 2018
  • BA, Yale University, 2011

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

  • Association of Canadian Archivists W. Kaye Lamb Prize, 2025
  • UCLA Dissertation Year Award, 2025
  • UCLA Center for the Study of Women Jean Stone Dissertation Research Award, 2024
  • ALISE Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition Award, 2023
  • Society of American Archivists Theodore Calvin Pease Award, 2017

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