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Education
Ph.D. Information Studies, UCLA, expected 2026
Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities, expected 2025
M.S. Library and Information Science, Simmons University, 2018
B.A., Yale University, 2011
Publications
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.
Presentations & invited talks
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.