Ashley Todd-Diaz, Ph.D.

Ashley Todd-Diaz, Ph.D., is Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections and University Archives at Towson University in Baltimore. Prior to that, she was Curator for Special Collections and Archives at Emporia State University. Her research interests are libraries and archives as organizations, graduate archival education, and archival literacy. Her dissertation explored the physical and virtual power structures and dynamics surrounding archives and libraries that exist within a parent-child organizational relationship, and how those dynamics are communicated to and perceived by external stakeholders. She has taught as an adjunct for over 10 years in Emporia State University’s School of Library and Information Management and Drexel University’s College of Computing and Informatics. She currently is Vice Chair/Chair-elect of the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) Archives Management Section and a member of SAA's Committee on Education. She holds a PhD from Emporia State University, an MSIS with a concentration in archives and records management from SUNY Albany, and an MA in English literature from New York University.