Research areas & overview

As an information scholar, I use archival science to interrogate whose knowledge production is valued within academic libraries and archives. My work addresses epistemic injustice in archives both theoretically and through practice-based intervention. Feminist epistemology helps theorize the significance of my research. It justifies personal and community archives’ historical legitimacy and reveals how unconventional and marginalized knowledge practices embody core attributes of archival science.

My active research areas are:

• Archival stewardship and knowledge production in the Armenian-American community, and how it influences professional practice, access, and use

• Armenian women’s recordkeeping practices & its epistemic significance

• Diaspora archives and archival practice

• Reparative description practices in academic archives

• Geopolitical risk and curation infrastructures