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Education
Ph.D. Information Studies, UCLA, 2026
Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities, 2025
M.S. Library and Information Science, Simmons University, 2018
B.A., Yale University, 2011
Publications
Robinson-Sweet, Anna. “Abolition Feminist Provenance,” Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, forthcoming.
Caswell, Michelle, Robinson-Sweet, Anna, Ahmadbeigi, Sadaf. “Sometimes A Kitchen, Sometimes a Zoom Call”: Experiences of Recording Oral Histories Online,” The Public Historian: 2026, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 22-50, https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2026.48.1.22.
Robinson-Sweet, Anna and Caswell, Michelle. “Paying it Forward: The Prefigurative Politics of Record Creation.” KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies: 2025, Vol. 8, No. 1, https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/article/view/292/513.
Robinson-Sweet, Anna. “Caring for Archives of Incarceration: The Ethics of Carceral Collecting at University Archive," Archivaria 97 (May 2024), 46-80. https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13957
Caswell, Michelle and Robinson-Sweet, Anna. “‘We Bounce Off Each Other’s Vibe’: The Importance of Symmetrical Intersubjectivity between Interviewer and Narrator.” Oral History Review 51 (Spring 2024), 179-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/00940798.2024.2316904.
Caswell, Michelle and Robinson-Sweet, Anna. “‘It Was as Much for Me as For Anybody Else:’ The Creation of Self-Validating Records.” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies 10, no. 1 (2023). https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol10/iss1/10/.
Robinson-Sweet, Anna. “Ancestry.com’s Race Stories: Examining Whiteness on the Genealogy Web.” The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion 5, no. 1 (2021), 79-96. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48645296.
Robinson-Sweet, Anna. “Truth and Reconciliation: Archivists as Reparations Activists.” The American Archivist 81, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2018), 23-37. https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-81.1.23.
Selected presentations & invited talks
Archival Education and Research Initiative, Vancouver, BC, “Pursuing Archives in Critical Times: A Roundtable with the Next Generation of AERI” (plenary panel), July 22, 2026.
Association of Canadian Archivists, virtual, "How Does that Help Us Listen? Unlearning 'Hungry' Listening in the Archives" (plenary panel), June 9, 2026.
American Studies Association, San Juan, PR, "Abolitionist Archival Imaginaries: Visions of Post-Carceral Futures from the Archive," November 20, 2025.
Human Rights Archives and the Problems of Provenance, virtual, "Abolition Feminist Ethics and Archives of Incarceration," June 25, 2025.
UC Love Data Week, virtual, “Critical and Creative Applications of Data Centric Research: Critical Data Lab Projects in Progress Conversation” (oral presentation with Dr. Cindy Nguyen and Dr. Meredith Cohen), February 11, 2025.
American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, “Imagining Alternatives to the Carceral State: Creating Community Informed Archives Documenting Mass Incarceration,” November 14, 2024.
UCLA School of Education and Information Studies Community Engaged Scholarship Series, Los Angeles, CA, “Community Archives and Participatory Action Research: Reports from the Virtual Belonging Project,” October 22, 2024.
Archival Education and Research Initiative, Baton Rouge, LA, “Exploring Approaches to Archiving Incarceration at University Archives,” June 22, 2023.
UCLA Information Studies Colloquium, virtual, “Feeling Record Creation: Report from the Virtual Belonging Project,” June 1, 2023.
iConference, Barcelona, Spain, “Practicing Research Reciprocity,” March 27, 2023.
Critical Digital Humanities International Conference, virtual, “How Does it Feel to Be Digitally Archived?,” September 30, 2022.
Society of American Archivists Committee on Ethics and Professional Conduct reading group, virtual, “Truth and Reconciliation: Archivists as Reparations Activists,” April 30, 2021.
Northeastern University Law School’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice project workshop series, Boston, MA, “Record-making for Reparation: A Call to Action in the Archive,” November 20, 2019.
New England Archivists (NEA)/Archivists Roundtable (A.R.T.) Joint Conference, New Haven, CT, “Radical Empathy in Archival Practice,” March 22-24, 2018.
Society of American Archivists (SAA) Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, “Graduate Paper Presentations,” July 23-29, 2017.
Honors & awards
Oral History Association Article Award (with Dr. Michelle Caswell), 2026
UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy Doctoral Award, 2026
UCLA Dissertation Year Award, 2025
Association of Canadian Archivists W. Kaye Lamb Prize, 2025
UCLA Center for the Study of Women Jean Stone Dissertation Award, 2024
ALISE Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Award, 2023
Society of American Archivists Theodore Calvin Pease Award, 2017