AES Leadership Team (2024-2025)

Allan A. Martell (Chair)

Ph.D. (he/him) is an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Library Science at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University. Martell's work lies at the intersection of memory studies, museum studies, and interactions design. His goal is to develop a design framework to study social memories of historical episodes of violence, such as dictatorships, genocides, or civil wars. His goal is to support ngoing efforts in civil society and cultural heritage institutions to redressing victims and promoting redistributive justice in post-conflict societies.

Ana Roeschley (Co-chair)

Ana is Assistant Professor and Director of Archival Studies in the Department of Information Science at the University of North Texas. She is the Director of the Our Refugee Stories Archive, a community-based archival initiative to create digital collections for and by refugees, as well as openly available resources on best practices for archiving personal records for personal use.

Katie Salzmann's bio here (Committee member)

Heather Soyka (Committee member)

Heather earned her doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh iSchool. Her teaching areas include archives, archival appraisal, research methods, and research data management. Most recently her research examines the reproducibility of community engagement and other record-keeping factors relevant to the sustainability of structures for research data sharing and reuse. She applies continuum theory and methods to her archival studies research, and has been a member of the Records Continuum Research Group since 2014. She has published research in national and international journals, including: Archival Science, the International Journal of Digital Curation, the American Archivist, Research Library Issues, the Journal of eScience Librarianship and Preservation, Technology, and Culture. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Society of American Archivists.

Adam Kriesberg (Committee member)

Adam received his PhD from the University of Michigan School of Information. Dr. Kriesberg's research interests include archives, digital preservation, data management, and digital curation. Prior to Simmons, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar and Lecturer at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed venues including Archival Science, The American Archivist, Data Science Journal, and The International Journal of Digital Curation. At SLIS, Dr. Kriesberg primarily teaches courses in the Archives and Cultural Heritage Informatics concentrations.

Yingying Han (Committee member)

Yingying recently earned her Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Starting from August, she will be a faculty member at the School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee. Her research and teaching interests focus on critical archival studies, digital preservation, and community engagement with marginalized groups. 

By integrating critical theories such as feminist ethics of care, her work examines how marginalized voices are silenced and misrepresented in archives and digital preservation infrastructures. She employs a community-based participatory approach to collaborate with marginalized communities, using community archives to build equitable, reciprocal, and trustworthy relationships. Through these partnerships, her research bridges community engagement with digital archives, empowering communities to document and curate their experiences and identities as counternarratives, transforming these stories into tools of agency. Additionally, her work also informs preservation practices, such as information organization systems, in memory institutions by incorporating grassroots perspectives and insights.