Diana E. Marsh

Diana E. Marsh is an Assistant Professor of Archives and Digital Curation at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies (iSchool) who studies how heritage institutions communicate with the public and communities. Her current research focuses on reconnecting Native and Indigenous communities with their heritage materials held in colonial archives. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives, the American Philosophical Society, and the University of British Columbia (UBC). She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from UBC, a Master’s in Social Anthropology with a Museums and Heritage focus from the University of Cambridge (2010), and a BFA in Visual Arts and Photography from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (2009).