Ana Roeschley is Associate Professor for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the School of Data and Information Science. She directs the Archives Learning Lab, an interdisciplinary lab focused on the exploration of social and technological issues impacting the relationships between people and archives in an ever-changing world.
Her experiences with record loss as a child refugee have deeply influenced Roeschley’s work as an archival scholar. She is the Principal Investigator of the IMLS-supported, Records of Refuge: Supporting Refugee Communities’ Archival Needs (RoR). This applied research study aims to close gaps on the documentary and archival needs of refugees in the United States. Through her work with RoR, Roeschley co-founded the Our Refugee Stories Archive (ORSA), a community-based archival initiative that centers refugee voices and refugee stories.
Roeschley’s overall scholarship focus is centered on applied research that can result in improved archival and information services to under-served individuals and communities. This focus has led her to her role as co-PI on the IMLS-funded, Inclusive Services to Enhance Immigrants' Resilience to Natural Disasters, and the NEH-supported, Advancing Resources for Cultural Heritage, Inclusion, and Visibility for ALL Communities — Minority-Serving Institutions.
As an archival educator and mentor, Roeschley’s focus is on meeting the needs of all of her students to ensure that they can become leaders in the archives and wider LIS fields. As co-PI on Stewarding Cultural Heritage: Latino Art, Museums and Preservation Fellowship (LAMP), a project supported by the American Latino Museum Internship and Fellowship Initiative from IMLS, Roeschley developed the University of North Texas Cultural Heritage Stewardship Graduate Academic Certificate program. This certificate program provides students with key skills needed for competitive careers in museum archives and other cultural heritage settings through hands-on learning experiences in grant writing, museum education, preservation, and museum archiving.
Her previous roles include Assistant Professor and Director of Archival Studies at the University of North Texas, as well as Assistant Professor of Professional Practice at Louisiana State University. Her research has been published in a number of venues including in Journal of Documentation, Journal of Information Science, Library and Information Science Research, Archival Science, and American Archivist.
