Rate My Professor Anne Gilliland

A Fellow of the Society of American Archivists and recipient of numerous awards in archival and information studies, Gilliland's scholarship focuses on recordkeeping and archival practices in support of human rights and daily life in post-conflict settings, such as countries emerging from the former Yugoslavia, rights in records for forcibly displaced persons, community memory for reconciliation after ethnic conflict, bureaucratic violence and the politics of metadata, digital recordkeeping, computational archival science, and research methods in archival studies. Key publications include Conceptualizing Twenty-first-century Archives (Society of American Archivists, 2014), Research in the Archival Multiverse, edited with Sue McKemmish and Andrew J. Lau (Monash University Press, 2016), Authenticity, Provenance, Authority and Evidence, edited with Mirna Willer and Marijana Tomić (University of Zadar Press, 2018), 'Future Perfect? Affect-aware, History-informed, Future-oriented Archive-making' in Archives and Emotions (2024), and 'Displaced, Un-placed, Re-placed: Armenian Archives and Archival Imaginaries in the US' (2022). She is a faculty affiliate of UCLA's Centers for Digital Humanities, European and Russian Studies, Study of International Migration, and the Promise Institute for Human Rights, and directs the Archival Education and Research Initiative and coordinates the Rights in Records in Displacement and Diaspora network.