Anne Gilliland is Professor of Information Studies in the School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she directs the Center for Information as Evidence and the Archival Studies specialization in the Department of Information Studies. Her academic background includes a Ph.D. in Information and Library Studies from the University of Michigan, an M.S. and Certificate of Advanced Study in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an M.A. in English Language and Literature from Trinity College, University of Dublin. Gilliland's extensive career encompasses research and teaching on the history, nature, human impact, and technologies associated with archives, recordkeeping, and memory, particularly in translocal and international contexts. She has held Honorary Research Fellow appointments with the Centre for Global Research at RMIT University in Melbourne, the University of Liverpool Department of History, and the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow. Additionally, she has served as a NORSLIS Professor at Tampere University in Finland, Lund University in Sweden, and the Royal School in Denmark, and taught as a visiting faculty member at Renmin University of China and the University of Zadar in Croatia.

A Fellow of the Society of American Archivists and recipient of numerous awards in archival and information studies, Gilliland's scholarship focuses on recordkeeping and archival practices in support of human rights and daily life in post-conflict settings, such as countries emerging from the former Yugoslavia, rights in records for forcibly displaced persons, community memory for reconciliation after ethnic conflict, bureaucratic violence and the politics of metadata, digital recordkeeping, computational archival science, and research methods in archival studies. Key publications include Conceptualizing Twenty-first-century Archives (Society of American Archivists, 2014), Research in the Archival Multiverse, edited with Sue McKemmish and Andrew J. Lau (Monash University Press, 2016), Authenticity, Provenance, Authority and Evidence, edited with Mirna Willer and Marijana Tomić (University of Zadar Press, 2018), 'Future Perfect? Affect-aware, History-informed, Future-oriented Archive-making' in Archives and Emotions (2024), and 'Displaced, Un-placed, Re-placed: Armenian Archives and Archival Imaginaries in the US' (2022). She is a faculty affiliate of UCLA's Centers for Digital Humanities, European and Russian Studies, Study of International Migration, and the Promise Institute for Human Rights, and directs the Archival Education and Research Initiative and coordinates the Rights in Records in Displacement and Diaspora network.

Professional Email: gilliland@gseis.ucla.edu