Anne J. Gilliland


Anne Jervois Gilliland is an archivist, scholar, and professor in the field of archival studies. She is Associate Dean for Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.

Education

Gilliland grew up in Northern Ireland. She holds an M.A. in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin; an M.S. in Library and Information Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and a Ph.D. in Information and Library Studies from the University of Michigan.

Career

Since 1995, Gilliland has held various positions within UCLA's Department of Information Studies. She began at UCLA as an Assistant Professor. She became a full Professor in 2005. She served as chair of the department between 2005 and 2009, and became the inaugural Associate Dean for Information Studies in 2018.
Along with Michelle Caswell and Marika Cifor, Gilliland is credited with introducing concepts of affect, imagined and impossible records into the field of archival theory, and having significantly influenced the trajectory of the field with this work. She has also collaborated widely with Australian archival scholar Sue McKemmish, particularly on the topics of rights to records, co-creatorship, and Indigenous peoples' claims to their own records.
She was a founding faculty member of the Archival Education and Research Institute.

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