Affiliate Positions

  • Affiliate Faculty, AfterLab, Information School
  • Affiliate Faculty, Technology and Social Change Group (TASCHA), Information School
  • Affiliate Faculty, Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender & Reproduction, Indiana University

Specializations

  • Archives and Record Management
  • Digital Studies
  • Gender and Technology

Biography

Marika Cifor is Associate Professor in the Information School and adjunct faculty in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is a feminist scholar of archival studies and digital studies. Her qualitative research investigates how individuals and communities marginalized by gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, disability, and/or HIV-status are represented and how they document and represent themselves through archives, data, and digital technologies. Her work is motivated by questions such as, what does a society’s conceptualization of and relationship to the past say about its present, and how does this shape possible futures? How are archives, data, and digital technologies implicated in the precaritization of minoritized people? And how do marginalized people document and represent their lives, identities, and social movements as a means of advancing more just and equitable worlds?

Cifor has published widely in critical information studies, gender and sexuality studies, science and technology studies (STS) and American studies on topics including affect and archives, feminist data studies, and community-based information practices. She is the author of Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), which charts how activists, archivists, and curators documented AIDS activism in the 1980s and 1990s, and the ways that contemporary activists, artists, and curators use those records to challenge the injustices that undergird digital age pandemics. Her ongoing research projects include activist information practices in response to the HIV/AIDS crisis; efforts to diversify the archives and libraries workforce; developing a Spanish-language thesaurus to increase access to LGBTQ+ information resources; and community co-design of archives and memory projects around institutional histories of disability. She is currently working on a second book about the networked data activism of buyer’s clubs.These clubs work transnationally to increase access to new, experimental, and alternative treatments, beginning with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and extending to contemporary efforts around generic drugs to cure Hepatitis C. Cifor’s research is funded by the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the Mellon Foundation.

Committed to building robust interdisciplinary research communities and to advancing the work of emerging critical information scholars, Cifor is active in social science and humanities research communities. As a co-PI of the Knowledge of AIDS Network, she is building an international research community of HIV/AIDS scholars in STS. She serves as Associate Editor of Special Sections for Catalyst: Feminism, Theory and Technoscience, is on the editorial board of the Homosaurus, and has served on the executive leadership committee of the Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI). At the iSchool, Cifor is co-founder of AfterLab and is affiliated the Technology and Social Change (TASCHA) group and the Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA).

Cifor regularly teaches courses on gender, race and technology and archival studies. She works mentors and works closely with iSchool students in the Informatics, MLIS, and Information Science PhD programs.

Education

  • Ph D, Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2017
  • MS, Library and Information Science, Simmons College, 2012
  • MA, History, Simmons College, 2012
  • BA, Political, Legal and Economic Analysis and History, Mills College, 2007

Awards

  • Reimagining Datafication: Of Hammers and Broken Machines: A Feminist and Critical Digital Studies Salon Grant - Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Cross-Disciplinary Research Cluster Funding, 2023-2024
  • 2024 Hunt-Simes Visiting Junior Chair of Sexuality Studies - Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre at The University of Sydney, 2024
  • Nominated for Best Information Science Book Award - Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), 2023
  • Best Paper of the Digital and Social Media Track Nomination - HICSS 52, 2019
  • Feminist Research Seminar on the Theme of Feminist Data - Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, 2018
  • Ernst Posner Award - Society of American Archivists, 2017
  • Conference Travel Grant - Litwin Books, 2016
  • Graduate Research Mentorship Award - University of California, Los Angeles, 2016
  • Honorable Mention for the Susan Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities - American Studies Association, 2016
  • National Science Foundation Travel Grant Award - Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, 2016
  • Runner-Up Award for Most Interesting Preliminary Results Paper - iConference, 2016
  • Archival Education and Research Institute Scholarship - University of Maryland, College Park, 2015
  • Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship - Social Science Research Council, 2015
  • Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award - University of California, Los Angeles, 2015
  • Archival Education and Research Institute Scholarship - University of Pittsburgh, 2014
  • Graduate Summer Research Mentorship - University of California, Los Angeles, 2014
  • LGBT Studies Conference Travel Grant - University of California, Los Angeles, 2014
  • Initiated to Membership - Beta Phi Mu: Library and Information Science Honor Society, 2012
  • Mary Lily Research Grant - Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, 2012
  • Book Award - Beta Beta Chapter of Beta Phi Mu, Simmons College, 2011
  • Office of Sponsored Programs’ Travel Award - Simmons College, 2011
  • Office of Sponsored Programs’ Travel Award - Simmons College, 2010
  • Initiated to Membership - Phi Alpha Theta: History Honor Society, 2006

Memberships

  • American Studies Association
  • Association for Library and Information Science Education
  • Fembot Collective
  • FemTechNet
  • National Women’s Studies Association
  • Society for Cinema and Media Studies
  • Society for the Social Studies of Science
  • Society of American Archivists

Publications and Contributions

  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Journal Article, Professional Journal
    Entrevista com Marika Cifor (Interview with Marika Cifor) (2023)
    Revista Estudos Históricos, 36(79), pp. 353-364 Authors: Carolina Alves, Martina Spohr, Marika Cifor
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Mediating Queer and Trans Pasts: The Homosaurus as Queer Information Activism (2023)
    Information, Communication & Society (iCS), 26(11), pp. 2168-2185 Authors: Marika Cifor, K.J. Rawson
  • Interview
    Mobilizing the Values of Our Profession (2023)
    Visual Resources Association Bulletin, 50(2) Authors: Marika Cifor, Sara Schumacher
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Queer Classification: Homosaurus Edition (2023)
    Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations in Librarianship Authors: Marika Cifor, J. Colbert, C. Kronk, K.J. Rawson, B. Watson
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    The Feminist Data Manifest-NO: An Introduction and an Application (2023)
    Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023, pp. 120-139 Authors: T. Sutherland, Marika Cifor, J. Rault, T.L. Cowan, P. Garcia
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Up Against the Wall: Art Activism and the AIDS Poster (2023)
    Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, ISBN/ISSN: 10.1080/23257962.2022.2128097 Author: Marika Cifor
  • Audiobook
    Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (2023)
    Authors: Marika Cifor, Kate Udall
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Viral Generations (2023)
    Feminist Formations, 35(3), pp. 221-231 Author: Marika Cifor
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    ‘I Hope We Leave More of a Record’: Radical Queer Care Within and for the AIDS INFO BBS’s Caregivers Mailing List (2023)
    Feminist Media Histories, 9(1), pp. 78-97 Authors: Marika Cifor, Claire McDonald
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    No! Re-imagining Data Practices Through the Lens of Critical Refusal (2022)
    ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW2), pp. 1-20 Author: Marika Cifor
  • Conference Paper
    No! Refusing Harmful Data Practices at Generation, Collection, and Use (2022)
    Conference Companion Publication of the 2022 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, ISBN/ISSN: https://doi.org/10.1145/3557997 Authors: P. Garcia, N. Salehi, T Sutherland, Marika Cifor, A. Singh
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    On Digital Models: Responding to Viral Metaphors in Pandemic Times (2022)
    Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 8(2), pp. 24 Authors: Marika Cifor, Cait McKinney
  • Book, Scholarly-New
    Viral Cultures: Activist Archives at the End of AIDS (2022)
    Author: Marika Cifor
  • Book, Scholarly-New
    Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (2022)
    Author: Marika Cifor
  • Invited Essay
    The AIDS Epidemic and its Afterlives: Frank Moore and the Labors of Activist Archiving (2021)
    New York University’s Skirball Center Series on COVID19 and its Afterlives Author: Marika Cifor
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    The information practices of law enforcement: passive and active collaboration and its implication for Sanctuary laws in Washington State (2021)
    Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 72(11), pp. 1354-1366 Authors: Yubing Tian, Ricardo Gomez, Marika Cifor, James Wilson, Henry Morgan
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    What is Remembered Lives’: Time and the Disruptive Animacy of Archiving AIDS on Instagram (2021)
    Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Author: Marika Cifor
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Gendered by Design: A Duoethnographic Study of Personal Fitness Tracking Systems (2020)
    ACM Transactions on Social Computing (TSC), 2(4), pp. 1-22 Authors: Marika Cifor, Patricia Garcia
  • Conference Extended Abstract
    No: Critical Refusal as Feminist Data Practice (2020)
    Conference Companion Publication of the 2020 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, pp. 199-202 Authors: P. Garcia, T. Sutherland, Marika Cifor, A. S. Chan, L. Klein, C. D'Ignazio, N. Salehi
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Reclaiming HIV/AIDS in Digital Media Studies (2020)
    First Monday, 25(10) Authors: Marika Cifor, Cait McKinney
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Reclaiming HIV/AIDS in Digital Studies (2020)
    First Monday Authors: Marika Cifor, Cait McKinney
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Special Issue on HIV/AIDS and Digital Media (2020)
    First Monday, 25(10) Editors: Marika Cifor, Cait McKinney
  • Conference Paper
    The Cost of Entry: Internships in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums Education. (2020)
    iConference 2020 Proceedings Authors: Marika Cifor, B. Watson
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Throughlines: Social Injustice and Activism in Los Angeles (2020)
    Transformative Projects in the Digital Humanities Authors: Marika Cifor, B. Paris
  • Conference Paper
    Duoethnography: A Feminist Methodology for Examining Socio-Technical Systems (2019)
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 3, CSCW Issue Authors: P. Garcia, Marika Cifor
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Evidences, Implications, and Critical Interrogations of Neoliberalism in Information Studies: An Introduction (2019)
    Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 2(1) Editors: Jamie A. Lee, Marika Cifor
  • Conference Paper
    Expanding Our Reflexive Toolbox: Collaborative Possibilities for Examining Socio-Technical Systems Using Duoethnography (2019)
    Proceedings of the 37th annual ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI '19), pp. 1-23 Authors: P. Garcia, Marika Cifor
  • Website Document
    Feminist Data Manifest-No (2019)
    Authors: Marika Cifor, Patricia Garcia, T. L. Cowan, Jasmine Rault, Tonia Sutherland, Anita Say Chan, Jennifer Rode, Anna Lauren Hoffmann, Niloufar Salehi, Lisa Nakamura
  • Conference Paper
    Inscribing Gender: A Duoethnographic Examination of Gendered Values in Fitness Tracker Design (2019)
    Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 52(Unknown Issue) Authors: Marika Cifor, P. Garcia
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Neither A Beginning Nor An End: Applying An Ethics of Care to Digitizing Archival Collections (2019)
    DigitalGLAM: New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums, pp. 10 Authors: M. Caswell, Marika Cifor
  • Journal Article, Professional Journal
    Status=Undetectable: Curating for the Present and Future of AIDS (2019)
    OnCurating, 36(Unknown Issue) Author: Marika Cifor
  • Conference Paper
    Uncover Sexual Harassment Patterns from Personal Stories by Joint Key Element Extraction and Categorization (2019)
    Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP '19), pp. 2328–2337 Authors: Yingchi Liu, Quanzhi Li, Marika Cifor, Xiaozhoung Liu, Qiong Zhang, Luo Si
  • Magazine/Trade Publication
    What We Mean When We Say #AbolishBigData2019 (2019)
    Medium Authors: Mytha Anthym, Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez, Kaylan Baxter, Paulette Blanc, B. B. Buchanan, Matthew Bui, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Marika Cifor, Roderic Crooks, Taylor Cruz, Mia Dawson, Jay Dev, Joan Donovan, Jamie Garcia, Julia Gelfand, Chris Gilliard, Ben Green, Harry Hvdson, Lilly Irani, Hamid Khan, Nadia Khan, Jenny Korn, Lisa Martinez, Bill Maurer, Carolina Mayes, Amanda Meng, Mélanie Millette, Sara Milkes, Florence Millerand, Yeshimabeit Milner, Akua Nkansah-Amankra, , Benedict Salazar Olgado, Aitanna Parker, Lucy Pei, Kylie Peppler, Winifred Poster, Stevie Rea, Allissa Richardson, Charmaine Runes, Mariella Saba, Zithri Saleem, Gwen Shaffer, Yvonne Sherwood, Janine Slaker, Toby Smith, Meme Styles, Tonia Sutherland, Lolita Tabron, Rebecca Widom, Stacey Wood
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Early African American Film Database: Reconstructing the History of Silent Race Films, 1909-1930 (2018)
    The Journal of Open Humanities Data Authors: Marika Cifor, H. Girma, W. Lam, S. Norman, Miriam Posner
  • Digital Project
    Early African American Film Database: Reconstructing the History of Silent Race Films, 1909-1930 (2018)
    The Journal of Open Humanities Data Authors: M. Berry, Marika Cifor, K. Contreras, H. Girma, W. Lam, S. Norman, Miriam Posner, A. J. Yoshika
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Generative Tensions: Building a Digital Project on Early African American Race Film (2018)
    American Quarterly, 70(3), pp. 709-713 Authors: Miriam Posner, Marika Cifor
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Imagining Transformative Spaces: The Personal-Political Sites of Community Archives (2018)
    Archival Science, 18(1), pp. 73-93 Authors: M. Caswell, J. Gabiola, J. Zavala, G. Brilmyer, Marika Cifor
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Stains and Remains: Liveliness, Materiality and the Archival Lives of Queer Bodies (2018)
    Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research Author: Marika Cifor
  • Book Review
    The Economization of Life, by Michelle Murphy (2018)
    Information and Culture, 53(3-4), pp. 374-376 Author: Marika Cifor
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    ‘What We Do Crosses Over to Activism’: The Politics and Practice of Community Archives (2018)
    The Public Historian, 40(2), pp. 69-95 Authors: Marika Cifor, M. Caswell, A. A. Migoni, N. Geraci
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Critical Feminism in the Archives (2017)
    Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 1(2) Authors: Marika Cifor, S. Wood
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Stains and Remains: Liveliness, Materiality and the Archival Lives of Queer Bodies (2017)
    Australian Feminist Studies, 91-92(Unknown Issue), pp. 5-21 Author: Marika Cifor
  • Web Gallery Introduction
    Towards an AIDS Archive (2017)
    Visual AIDS Web Gallery Author: Marika Cifor
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Towards an Archival Critique: Opening Possibilities for Addressing Neoliberalism in the Archival Field (2017)
    Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 1(1) Authors: Marika Cifor, J. A. Lee
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Tracing a Community of Practice: A Database of Early African-American Race Film (2017)
    The Moving Image, 17(2), pp. 101-105 Authors: Marika Cifor, H. Girma, W. Lam, S. Norman, Miriam Posner
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    ‘A Process Where We’re All at the Table’: Community Archives Challenging Dominant Modes of Archival Practice (2017)
    Archives and Manuscripts, 45(3), pp. 202-215 Authors: J. Zavala, M. Caswell, A. A. Migoni, N. Geraci, Marika Cifor
  • Digital Project
    ACT UP Los Angeles History Capsule (2016)
    Authors: Marika Cifor, W. Corrigan, S. Montoya, B. S. Paris
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Acting Up, Talking Back: TITA, TIARA, and the Value of Gossip (2016)
    InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 12(1) Author: Marika Cifor
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Affect and the Archive, Archives and their Affects: An Introduction to the Special Issue (2016)
    Archival Science, 16(1), pp. 1-6 Authors: Marika Cifor, A. J. Gilliland
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Affecting Relations: Introducing Affect Studies to Archival Discourse (2016)
    Archival Science, 16(1), pp. 7-31 Author: Marika Cifor
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Aligning Bodies: Collecting, Arranging, and Describing Hatred for a Critical Queer Archives (2016)
    Library Trends, 64(4), pp. 756-775 Author: Marika Cifor
  • Conference Paper
    Developing an Undergraduate Information Studies Curriculum in Support of Social Justice (2016)
    iConference 2016 Proceedings Authors: Marika Cifor, R. D. Montoya, M. H. Ramirez
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives (2016)
    Archivaria, 81(Unknown Issue), pp. 23-83 Authors: M. Caswell, Marika Cifor
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Introduction to Special Issue on Gender in Education and Information Studies: Interrogating Knowledge Production, Social Structures and Equitable Access (2016)
    InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 12(1) Authors: S. Wood, Marika Cifor, L. Illano
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Introduction to Spring 2016 Issue (2016)
    InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 12(2) Authors: S. Wood, Marika Cifor, L. Illano
  • Digital Project
    Throughlines: Social Injustice and Activism in Los Angeles (2016)
    Authors: Marika Cifor, B. Paris
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    ‘To Be Able to Imagine Otherwise’: A Framework for Understanding the Impact of Community Archives (2016)
    Archives and Records, 38(1), pp. 5-26 Authors: M. Caswell, A. A. Migoni, Marika Cifor, N. Geraci
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    ‘To Suddenly Discover Yourself Existing’: Uncovering the Affective Impact of Community Archives (2016)
    The American Archivist, 79(1), pp. 56-81 Authors: M. Caswell, Marika Cifor, M. H. Ramirez
  • Book, Chapter in Non-Scholarly Book-Revised
    Ephemeral Material: Queering the Archive, by Alana Kumbier (2015)
    Archival Issues Author: Marika Cifor
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Presence, Absence, and Victoria’s Hair: Affect and Embodiment in Trans Archives (2015)
    TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2(4), pp. 645-649 Author: Marika Cifor
  • Book Review
    Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader, edited by Patrick Keilty and Rebecca Dean (2014)
    InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 10(2) Author: Marika Cifor
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Home and Oral Histories (2014)
    June L. Mazer Archives: Making Invisible Histories Visible: A Resource Guide to the Collections, pp. 61-63 Author: Marika Cifor
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Mobilizing Records: Re-Framing Archival Description to Support Human Rights (2014)
    Archival Science, 14(Unknown Issue), pp. 397-414 Authors: S. Wood, K. Carbone, Marika Cifor, A. J. Gilliland, R. Punzalan
  • Book Review
    Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users, edited by Ellen Greenblatt (2013)
    Archival Issues, 35(1), pp. 55-56 Author: Marika Cifor
  • Conference Paper
    Editorial Statement (2012)
    Gender, Sexuality and Urban Spaces Working Papers Collection, Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies Authors: Marika Cifor, J. Deshayes, A. Peaker, F. Sattar, S. Struble, V. Vega
  • Book Review
    Narrating from the Archive, by Marco Codebò (2011)
    The American Archivist, 74(2), pp. 702-705 Author: Marika Cifor
  • Book Review
    The Ethical Archivist, by Elena S. Danielson (2011)
    NEA Newsletter, 38(4), pp. 26 Author: Marika Cifor
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    "Certainly there are many sorts of truth in the universe": Exclusions to the Universal in the Kinsey Institute's Classification Prectices
    Queer Data Authors: Marika Cifor, R. D. Montoya, B. Watson
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Affect
    Uncertain Archives Author: Marika Cifor
  • Book, Chapter in Non-Scholarly Book-New
    Affect
    Uncertain Archives Author: Marika Cifor
  • Conference Paper
    Gendered by Design: A Duoethnographic Study of Personal Fitness Tracking Systems
    Proceedings of the 38th annual ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI '20) Authors: Marika Cifor, Patricia Garcia
  • Conference Paper
    No! Refusing Harmful Data Practices at Generation, Collection, and Use
    Conference Companion Publication of the 2022 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Authors: P. Garcia, N. Salehi, T. Sutherland, Marika Cifor, A. Singh
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    On Digital Models: Responding to Viral Metaphors in Pandemic Times
    Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Authors: C. McKinney, Marika Cifor
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Revisiting A Feminist Ethics of Care in Archives: Introductory Note.
    Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 3 Authors: M. Caswell, Marika Cifor

Presentations

  • Activist Archives and Frameworks of Care (2024)
    Conservation Center for Art and Historical Artifacts Webinar - Virtual
  • Imperial Archives of Feeling: Bureaucracy and Emotion in Records of the Colonial Object Project (2024)
    University of Manchester - Manchester, UK
  • International Seminar on Archives and Counter-Archives: Image politics and migration (2024)
    Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil (School of Social Sciences)(CPDOC- FGV) - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (2024)
    Digital Humanities Utah Symposium, Southern Utah University - Cedar City, Utah
  • Viral Images: Activist Archiving and the Politics of AIDS (2024)
    International Seminar on Archives and Counter-Archives: Image Politics and Migration - Rio de Janeiro
  • “Viewpoints (both subjective and objective)”: Developing and perceiving expertises in AIDS INFO BBS’ Open Forum (2023)
    American Studies Association Annual Meeting - Montreal, CN
  • Collecting Stories from Underrepresented Communities: How to Co-Design a Community Archive at Your Public Library (2023)
    BiblioCommons Webinar - Virtual
  • Collecting Stories from Underrepresented Communities: How to Co-Design a Community Archive at Your Public Library (2023)
    American Library Association - Chicago, Illinois
  • Collecting Stories from Underrepresented Communities: How to Co-Design a Community Archive at Your Public Library (2023)
    Washington Library Association Annual Conference - Wenatchee, WA, USA
  • Cure and Curation: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (2023)
    Lives and Legacies of the Visual AIDS Archive, Whitney Museum of American Art - New York, New York
  • HIV/AIDS Cure and Curation in the Archive Project (2023)
    Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities Seminar, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston - Galveston, TX
  • Lesbian Sociality and the Politics of HIV/AIDS (2023)
    American Studies Association - Montreal, Québec, Canada
  • Solidarity On-line: New Archival Histories of Disability Justice and Queer Life Through Communication Technologies (2023)
    American Studies Association - Montreal, Québec, Canada
  • Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (2023)
    Social Analysis of Computing, Department of Informatics, University of California Irvine - Irvine, California
  • Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (2023)
    Introduction to Archival Studies, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, CUNY - New York, New York
  • Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS: the Visual AIDS’s Archive Project and Artist+ Registry (2023)
    ASIS&T Meet the Authors Webinar Series - Virtual
  • Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS: the Visual AIDS’s Archive Project and Artist+ Registry (2023)
    Disrupting Disruptions: The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Technologies Practices Speaker Series, McGill University - Montreal, QC
  • Working with the Feminist Data Manifest-NO (2023)
    Critical Feminist Data Studies, Department Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Washington - Seattle, Washington
  • Authors-Meet-Critics: Viral Cultures and The Distance Cure (2022)
    4S Annual Conference - Puebla, Mexico
  • Book Launch: Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (2022)
    AfterLab, Information School, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Feminist Ethics and Personal Archiving (2022)
    International Meeting on Personal Archives, School of Social Science, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV CPDOC) - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Instagram and the Construction of AIDS space-time (2022)
    Critical Digital Humanities Initiative Conference, University of Toronto - Virtual
  • Marika L. Cifor & Joseph Osmundson (Book Talk) (2022)
    Elliot Bay Book Company - Seattle, WA (virtual)
  • Provocation: Feminist Data Manifest- NO (2022)
    Prefiguring and Resisting Tech: Towards Just Transitions Workshop, University of California, San Diego - Virtual
  • Publishing a Book in Archival Studies (2022)
    Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) - Virtual
  • Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (2022)
    Dartmouth College - Virtual
  • Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (2022)
    Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies (GWSS Spring 2022 Colloquium Series) - Seattle, WA (virtual)
  • Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (2022)
    Simmons University - Virtual
  • Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (2022)
    American Studies Association - New Orleans, LA
  • Viral Cultures: HIV/AIDS Cure and Curation in the Archive Project (2022)
    Research Symposium, Information School, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Virus/Virality: Responding to Viral Metaphors in Pandemic Times (2022)
    Digital Metaphors Panel, 4S Annual Conference - Puebla, Mexico
  • ‘The Archive is a Place Where Things Go to Live’: Preservation and Power in Visual AIDS’ New Media Archiving (2021)
    Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) - Virtual
  • Affect, Bodies and Records (2021)
    Personal Archives, Information School, University of British Columbia - British Columbia, Canada
  • Going Viral: Mobilizing AIDS Archives in Digital Culture (2021)
    Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (University of Toronto) - Virtual
  • Queer Archives: The Work of Critical Cataloging and Queer Archival Labor (2021)
    Visual Resources Center, University of Chicago - Virtual
  • Queer Archives: The Work of Critical Cataloging and Queer Archival Labor (2021)
    Visual Resources Center, University of Chicago - Chicago, IL
  • Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (2021)
    Archival Technologies Lab, City University of New York - New York City, NY
  • Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (2021)
    Archival Technologies Lab (CUNY) - Virtual
  • An Archival Cure: Remedy, Care, and Curation of HIV-Positive Artists' Records with the Visual AIDS Archive Project (2020)
    UCLA Department of Information Studies Colloquium Series - Virtual
  • Archival Materiality and Data Reuse (2020)
    Department of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business School - Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Archive as Cure: Critical Nostalgia and HIV/AIDS in Visual AIDS’ Activist Archives (2020)
    Department of Information Studies Colloquium Series, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California *Talk cancelled due to COVID-19 - Los Angeles, CA
  • Archives and Community Engagement Practices (2020)
    Community Engagement Strategies in Information Science, Information School, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Archives, Human Rights, and Social Justice (2020)
    Information and Social Justice, Information School, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Beyond Medical Cure: Remedy, Care, and Curation of HIV-Positive Artists Records with the Visual AIDS Archive Project (2020)
    University of Arizona iSchool Colloquium Series - Virtual
  • Critical Archival Description (2020)
    OntoGroup, iSchool, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Cure and the AIDS Archives: Activism and Survival in Visual AIDS' Archive Project (2020)
    Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) *Conference cancelled due to COVID-19. - Philadelphia, PA
  • Data Stains and Data Remains: The Epistemologies and Politics of Liveliness in Big Data Archives (2020)
    "Theorizing Reuse" Seminar Series at the Copenhagen Business School - Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Digital Surveillance, Privacy, and Preservation in Community-based Archives (2020)
    Visual AIDS - Virtual
  • Ethics in and of the Digital AIDS Archives (2020)
    Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Colloquium Series, University of Washington. *Talk cancelled due to COVID-19. - Seattle, WA
  • Feminist Data and Archival Ethics (2020)
    Feminist Digital Humanities. Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen - Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Feminist Data Manifest-No (2020)
    The Refusal Conference, UC Berkeley's Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group (AFOG) - Virtual
  • Feminist Data: Refuse, Reform, Reimagine, Revolt (2020)
    Allied Media Conference - Virtual
  • Gender and Design (2020)
    #CHIversity Virtual Talks, FemPowerTech. - Virtual
  • Gendered by Design: A Duoethnographic Study of Personal Fitness Tracking Systems (2020)
    ACM CHI 2020 Journals - Honolulu, HI
  • Gendered by Design: A Duoethnographic Study of Personal Fitness Tracking Systems (2020)
    Dempower.tech’s Virtual #CHIversity2020 Series - Virtual
  • Introducing and Activating The Feminist Data Manifest-NO (2020)
    Data and Society - New York, NY
  • Introducing Emerging Researchers to Publishing in LIS (2020)
    Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting - Virtual
  • Lecture and Facilitation, Introducing and Activating the Feminist Data Manifest-NO (2020)
    Data and Society - New York, NY
  • Nostalgia in and for Archives (2020)
    Theory and Politics of Collecting, Department of Information Studies, University of California Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA
  • Publishing Special Issues and Developmental Editing for New Archival Scholars (2020)
    Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and the Society of American Archivists - Chicago, IL
  • Reclaiming AIDS in Digital Media Studies (2020)
    American Studies Association Annual Conference *Conference cancelled due to COVID-19. - Baltimore, MD
  • The Archive is a Place Where Things Go to Live’: Preservation and Power in Visual AIDS (2020)
    New Media Archiving. Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), - Denver, CO
  • The Feminist Data Manifest-No (2020)
    The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). *Talk cancelled due to COVID-19. - New York, NY
  • The Feminist Data Manifest-NO and Doing Data Justice (2020)
    Social Analysis of Computing, Department of Informatics, University of California Irvine - Irvine, CA
  • Using the Feminist Data Manifest-NO to Transform Information Studies Pedagogy (2020)
    Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) - Prague, Czech Republic
  • Viral Cultures - Activist Archives at the End of AIDS (2020)
    University of Copenhagen Uncertain Archives Research Group - Copenhagen, Denmark
  • "What is Remembered Lives": The Spatio-Temporal Disruption of Archiving AIDS on Instagram (2019)
    Digital Geographies Series, University of Kentucky - Lexington, KY
  • #AIDSMemorial: Memory Resistance and the Disruptive Animacy of AIDS Archiving on Instagram (2019)
    Gender, Bodies and Technology Conference - Roanoke, Virginia
  • #WhatIsRememberedLives: The Affective Politics of Archiving AIDS on Instagram (2019)
    Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference - Seattle, Washington
  • ACTing UP in the AIDS Archives: Gender, Race, and the (Un)Making of AIDS Histories (2019)
    National Women’s Studies Association Conference - San Francisco, CA
  • Activist Archiving as Cure: Art, Activism, and Survival in the HIV/AIDS Archives (2019)
    University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa - Honolulu, HI
  • Advancing Critical Information Scholarship on Archives, Digital Media, and Memory (2019)
    University of Michigan School of Information - Ann Arbor, MI
  • Archival Violences and Archiving Violence: Relationality, Accountability, and Sustainable Futures in Digital Archives (2019)
    American Studies Association Annual Meeting - Honolulu, HI
  • Archive as Cure: The Promises of Visual AIDS Activist Archiving (2019)
    Memory Lives On: Documenting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Conference - San Francisco, CA
  • Digital Archives and the Representation of Difficult Knowledge (2019)
    Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Conference - Vancouver, BC
  • Duoethnography: A Feminist Methodology for Examining Socio-Technical Systems (2019)
    ACM CHI 2019 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Glasgow, Scotland
  • Expanding Our Reflexive Toolbox: Collaborative Possibilities for Examining Socio-Technical Systems Using Duoethnography (2019)
    22nd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '19) - Austin, TX
  • Feminist Research Seminar on Feminist Data (2019)
    Institute for Resaerch on Women and Gender, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
  • Inscribing Gender: A Duoethnographic Examination of Gendered Values in Fitness Tracker Design (2019)
    Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 52 - Maui, Hawaii
  • Public Sharing, Private Lives: A Feminist Analysis of Tracking and Disclosing Health Data (2019)
    Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) - New Orleans, LA
  • Retro/Viral: Memory, (Dis)Identification, and the Economy of Archival Records on Tumblr (2019)
    Memory Studies Association Conference - Madrid, Spain
  • Status = Undetectable: Curating for the Present and Future of AIDS (2019)
    Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) - Liverpool, UK
  • The Undetectable Archive: Curating for the Present and Future of AIDS (2019)
    4th Annual Information + Humanities Conference - University Park, PA
  • The Violence of Loss: Survival and Justice in the Digital AIDS Archives (2019)
    American Studies Association Annual Meeting - Honolulu, HI
  • Viral as Metaphor: HIV/AIDS and Digital Technology and Culture (2019)
    Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Conference - Vancouver, BC
  • ‘Your Nostalgia is Killing Me!’ ACT UP Nostalgia, Historical Narratives and their Meaning in the Present (2018)
    Five College Women’s Studies Research Center - South Hadley, Massachusetts
  • An Archival Orientation to Managing Projects in the Digital Humanities (2018)
    Information Services for Culturally Diverse Communities, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Archival Temporalities on Display: Undetectability, Outreach, and Programming in AIDS Archives (2018)
    Temporal Belongings International Conference - Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Community Archives and Archiving (2018)
    History in the Archives, History Department, Bowdoin College - Brunswick, Maine
  • Feminist and Critical Theories in Information Studies Research (2018)
    Introduction to Doctoral Research in Information Science, Department of Information and Library Science, Indiana University - Bloomington, Indiana
  • Feminist Ethics for Digital Heritage: Applying a Feminist Ethics of Care to Digital Archives and Archiving to Redress Structural Inequities (2018)
    DigitalHeritage 2018 - San Francisco, California
  • Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Archival Representation (2018)
    Representation and Organization, Department of Information and Library Science, Indiana University - Bloomington, Indiana
  • HIV/AIDS Activism Then and Now: “In the Era of Silence=Death” (2018)
    Bates College - Lewiston, Maine
  • Making HIV Visible: Representation, Embodiment and Stigma on Dating Apps (2018)
    Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference - Toronto, Canada
  • The Classification of Sexuality at the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research (2018)
    ASIS&T Special Interest Group/Classification Research Workshop - Vancouver, British Columbia
  • Viral Surveillance: HIV Status Disclosure, New Media, and the Criminalization of Difference (2018)
    Biennial Surveillance Studies Network Conference - Aarhus, Denmark
  • Viral Transmission: Affect, Disidentification and the Curation of AIDS Activist Archives on Tumblr (2018)
    Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) - Sydney, Australia
  • Viral Visions: Affect, Identification and the Curation of Archival Images on Tumblr (2018)
    American Studies Association Annual Meeting - Atlanta, Georgia
  • ‘Your Nostalgia is Killing Me’: Activism, Affect and the Archives of HIV/AIDS (2017)
    Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Poster Competition, Association for Library and Information Science Education - Atlanta, Georgia
  • Archives, New Media, and Activism: Advancing and Diversifying Feminist Digital Humanities Instruction and Scholarship (2017)
    Stony Brook University - Stony Brook, New York
  • Embodying Data: Duoethnography as a Feminist Methodology for Studying Wearables (2017)
    Imagining Intersectional Futures: Feminist Approaches in CSCW Workshop, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work - Portland, Oregon
  • Fitness Trackers Through a Feminist Lens (2017)
    Introduction to Digital and Computational Studies, Digital and Computational Studies Program, Bowdoin College - Brunswick, Maine
  • Information Studies, Archives, and Feminist Praxis (2017)
    Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, Bowdoin College - Brunswick, Maine
  • Revealing and Building a Community of Practice: A Database of Early African- American Race Film (2017)
    Documenting Cinema: Film Librarianship in the 21st Century - Los Angeles, California
  • Stains and Remains: Liveliness, Materiality and the Archival Lives of Queer Bodies (2017)
    Archival Education and Research Institute, University of Toronto - Toronto, Canada
  • Surveillance Countermeasures: Biopolitical Governance, Flawed Policing Reform and Resistance (2017)
    2017 International Communications Association Pre-Conference on Media Justice: Race, Borders, Disability and Data - San Diego, California
  • The Biopolitics of Self-Quantification: Duoethnography and the Study of Wearable Devices (2017)
    Society for the Social Studies of Science - Boston, Massachusetts
  • Throughlines: Exposing Activism and Social Justice Issues in Los Angeles Transportation History (2017)
    Digital Humanities 2017 - Montreal, Canada
  • Trans Archives and Archiving Practices (2017)
    Trans Studies in the Politics of Visibility, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, Bates College - Lewiston, Maine
  • Uncovering and Building a Community of Practice (2017)
    Looking Backwards and Moving Onwards: Excavating Feminist Media Histories Symposium, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Undetectability: HIV/AIDS Activism, Biomedical Development and Archival Consequences (2017)
    American Studies Association Annual Meeting - Chicago, Illinois
  • Undetectable: Representation, Temporality, and AIDS Archives (2017)
    Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference - Amherst, Massachusetts
  • ‘A Hypochondria of the Heart’: Nostalgia, Activism, and the Archives of HIV/AIDS Activism (2016)
    American Studies Association Annual Conference - Denver
  • Affect, Queer Theory and HIV/AIDS Archives (2016)
    Emerging Queer Archives Scholarship Panel, Library and Archives OUTreach, University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, California
  • Archival Description for Human Rights and Social Justice (2016)
    Understanding Records and Archives: Principles and Practices, School of Information, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Archival Education for Social Justice: Changing the Conversation about Undergraduates and LIS (2016)
    Association for Library and Information Science Education - Boston, Massachusetts
  • Archives and Neoliberalism (2016)
    Archives and Social Justice, Information Studies Department, University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, California
  • Archives, Action, AIDS: Archival Collaborations with Visual AIDS (2016)
    Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Conference, Association of College and Research Libraries - Miami, Florida
  • Archiving Bodies: The Collection and Retention of Biometric Data and Refugee Identity (2016)
    National Women’s Studies Association Conference - Montreal, Canada
  • Blood, Sweat, and Hair: The Archival Potential of Queer and Trans Bodies (2016)
    Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium, Simon Fraser University, - Vancouver, British Columbia
  • Community, Memory and Collaboration in AIDS Archives (2016)
    Society of California Archivists Annual Meeting - Santa Rosa, California
  • Critical Feminism in the Archives (2016)
    Archival Education and Research Institute, Kent State University - Kent, Ohio
  • Developing an Undergraduate Information Studies Curriculum in Support of Social Justice (2016)
    iConference 2016 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Nostalgia and Artists’ Reuse of HIV/AIDS Activist Records (2016)
    Emerging Research in Information Studies Panel, Los Angeles Archivists Collective - Los Angeles, California
  • Quantified Sex: Queer Archival Practices of Sexuality and Self (2016)
    Queer Circuits in Archival Times: Experimentation and Critique of Networked Data, CUNY Graduate Center - New York, New York
  • Quantifying Sex: Technology, Capital, and Self in Live Cam Performances (2016)
    Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting - Barcelona, Spain
  • Teaching Information Literacy: Towards a Critical Pedagogical Practice in Information Studies (2016)
    Critical Librarianship and Pedagogy Symposium, The University of Arizona - Tucson, Arizona
  • The Critical Potential of Nostalgia (2016)
    Archival Education and Research Institute, Kent State University - Kent, Ohio
  • ‘We Care! Do You?’: ACT UP Records, Feminist Ethics, and Radical Care (2015)
    Archival Education and Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park - College Park, Maryland
  • Archives, Feelings, Power (2015)
    Information and Power, Information Studies Department, University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, California
  • Critical Digital Literacy for Social Justice (2015)
    Biased Data: A Panel Discussion on Intersectionality and Internet Ethics, Collaboration for Liberation in Technology Lab, University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles
  • Digital Archives (2015)
    The Internet and Society, Information Studies Department, University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, California
  • Educating for Social Justice: Developing an Undergraduate Archival Studies Curriculum (2015)
    International Council on Archives Section on Archival Education and Training Conference, University of Maryland, College Park - College Park, Maryland
  • Interview Methods for Information Studies Research (2015)
    Social Science Research Methodology, Information Studies Department, University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, California
  • Networks, Globalization, Activism, Slactivism (2015)
    Introduction to Information Studies, Information Studies Department, University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, California
  • Presence, Absence, and Victoria’s Hair: Examining Affect, Containment, and Embodiment in Trans Archives (2015)
    National Women’s Studies Association - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Teaching Archival Literacy: The Challenges and Opportunities of Developing an Undergraduate Archival Studies Curriculum (2015)
    Society of American Archivists Research Forum - Cleveland, Ohio
  • Affect, Archives & Records (2014)
    Information Structures, Information Studies Department, University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, California
  • Aligning Bodies: Hatred as an Organizing Principle in LGBTQ Archives (2014)
    Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium - Toronto, Canada
  • Harvey Milk’s Ponytail: The Affect of Intimacy in the Queer Archives (2014)
    Affect and the Archive Symposium, University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, California
  • Human Rights and Social Justice (2014)
    Grand Challenges Plenary Session, Archival Education and Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Identifying Research Contributions of Archival Studies and Recordkeeping to Societal Grand Challenges: A Report from the AERI Grand Challenges Working Group (2014)
    Society of American Archivists Research Forum - Washington, D.C.
  • Love in the Archives: Examining Affective Labors in LGBTQ Archives (2014)
    National Women’s Studies Association Conference - San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Oral History from the Inside: Documenting Activists from the June Mazer Lesbian Archives (2014)
    Southwest Regional Oral History Association Conference - Tempe, Arizona
  • Queer Things: Lesbian Pulp Novels and the Archives (2014)
    Why Things Matter Conference, California State University - Fullerton, California
  • That Other Hunger: Queering Lesbian Pulp Novels, Archives, and the Archival Record (2014)
    Queer Practices, Places and Lives Symposium, The Ohio State University - Columbus, Ohio
  • Visceral Forces: Introducing Affect Studies to Archival Discourse (2014)
    Archival Education and Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Unnatural Intimacies: Deviance, Sexuality and the Historical Relationships of Lesbians and Prostitutes, 1935-1969 (2012)
    Queer Practices, Places and Lives Symposium, The Ohio State University - Columbus, Ohio
  • Unnatural Intimacies: Deviance, Sexuality and the Historical Relationships of Lesbians and Prostitutes, 1935-1969 (2012)
    Gendered Borders and Queer Frontiers Conference, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin
  • Documenting Sex(ualities) in the Archival Literature (2011)
    New England Archivists Spring Meeting - Providence, Rhode Island
  • Documenting Sex(ualities) in the Archival Literature (2011)
    Archives, Libraries, Museums and Special Collections, International GLBT Conference, University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, California
  • Intimate Relations: An Examination of the Historical Relationship of Lesbians and Prostitutes in the United States, 1935-1965 (2011)
    Women's and Gender History Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
  • Intimate Relations: An Examination of the Historical Relationship of Lesbians and Prostitutes in the United States, 1935-1965 (2011)
    Gender, Sexuality and Urban Spaces Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • The Body as Archive: Sexology, Science and the Historical Relationship of Lesbians and Prostitutes in the United States, 1869-1920 (2011)
    New England Historical Association - Boston, Massachusetts
  • Unnatural Intimacies: Deviance, Sexuality and the Historical Relationships of Lesbians and Prostitutes, 1935-1965 (2011)
    Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University - Durham, North Carolina
  • Continuity and Rupture: Abortion in Germany and the United States, 1918-1945 (2010)
    University of Maine/University of New Brunswick International Graduate Student Conference - Orono, Maine