Diana E. Marsh

Diana Marsh is an Assistant Professor of Archives and Digital Curation at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies (iSchool), and an archival and museum scholar-practitioner who studies how institutions share knowledge with the public and communities. She teaches in archives and museum studies, especially in the College’s Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program. Her current research focuses on improving discovery and access to colonially-held archives for Native American and Indigenous communities.

Currently, she is leading an IMLS-funded project to use Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) to address Indigenous “archival diaspora” and discoverability. She is also working with Katrina Fenlon on an NSF-funded project to more broadly address discovery and recontextualization of anthropology’s archives (dovetailing ongoing work with Ricardo Punzalan to revitalize the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records). She is also Past Chair of the Native American Archives Section of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and current appointee to the SAA’s new Archival Repatriation Committee.

Dr. Marsh holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology (Museum Anthropology) from the University of British Columbia, an M.Phil in Social Anthropology (Museums & Heritage focus) from the University of Cambridge, and a B.F.A. in Visual Arts (Photography) from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.