Biographies: 

Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar is a South Lebanese archivist, historian, and educator. She is Assistant Professor in Archival Information & Digital Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, founding director of the Archives & Digital Media Lab, and a Research Affiliate at the American University of Beirut’s School of Architecture & Design. Ghaddar serves as Co-Chair of the International Council on Archives’ Palestine/Lebanon Archives Task Force; and Chair of the Middle East Librarians Association’s Archives & Records Management Training & Advocacy Group. Ghaddar serves as a co-lead with Dr. Rami Zurayk and Dr. Hanine Shehadeh of the project, Fighting Erasure: Digitizing Gaza’s Genocide and the War on Lebanon.  

Dr. Hanine Shehadeh is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities at NY Abu Dhabi. Her research focuses on the intersections between settler colonialism, climate change, and new media. She is deconstructing the global framing of climate change and environmental justice, exploring how these issues are intricately tied to the settler-colonial reality in Palestine. Her academic work interrogates how new media landscapes can reinforce or resist digital colonialism, particularly in relation to indigenous identities and colonial subjugation. She contributes to a collaborative project with the Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences at AUB, examining the dynamics of settler colonialism and its socio-political implications. Dr. Shehadeh earned her Ph.D. in Intellectual History from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Her dissertation, which explored the historical construction of the "dishonorable Jew" in European Christian antisemitism and Zionism, was nominated for Columbia University's Salo and Jeanette Baron Prize in Jewish Studies. She is also a recipient of Columbia University's Humanities War and Peace Initiative award for her work on affect formation in settler-colonial societies.

Raymond Frogner has an MA from the University of Victoria and an MAS degree from the University of British Columbia. He is the Head of Archives and Director of Research for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. His publications have twice won the Kaye Lamb Prize and the Alan D. Ridge Award of Merit. He is a recent Fellow of the ACA. In 2018, he became Co-chair of the ICA Special Committee on Indigenous Matters. He was principal author of “Tandanya/The Adelaide Declaration”, the official ICA Declaration on archives and Indigenous rights. He continues to write on matters of Indigenous identity and archives.

Dr. Ana Roeschley is Assistant Professor and Director of Archival Studies in the Department of Information Science at the University of North Texas. She is the founder and Co-Director of two research labs: the Archives Learning Lab—dedicated to investigating the relationships between people and archives in an ever-changing world; and the Computational Humanities and Information Literacy Lab—an interdisciplinary lab focused on the exploration of social and technological issues impacting human culture, heritage, and the arts and humanities.  Her research on personal and participatory archiving practices, as well as her own experiences as a refugee, led Roeschley to her role as the Principal Investigator of Records of Refuge: Supporting Refugee Communities’ Archival Needs (RoR), an applied research study aiming 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, 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.

Nigel V. Nugawela  is a trained Archivist and Records Manager focusing on human rights archiving, access to information, evidence, records management, and metadata development. He currently operates as a consultant, advising various organisations on ARM-related projects. He was a founding trustee of the Collective for Historical Dialogue & Memory (CHDM) and was previously associated with the Centre for Policy Alternatives (2009-2012), Groundviews (2009-2012), Consultation Task Force on Reconciliation Mechanisms (2016-2018), and the Strengthening Reconciliation Processes in Sri Lanka (SRP) programme (2019-2022). N. V. Nugawela read for an MA (Hons.) in Politics at the University of Edinburgh and, as a Chevening Scholar, for an MA in Archives and Records Management at University College London (UCL), where he was awarded the Sir Hilary Jenkinson Prize (2018/9).

Dr. Mariam Karim is a Lebanese-Iraqi scholar and organizer. She is the founder of the digital archival storytelling project Nasawiyyah: Arab Media History and a Steering Council member of the Archives & Digital Media Lab.  Her work explores Arab women’s anti-colonial media from the 20th century. She is completing a Global Postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (2023-2026). Karim completed her PhD at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information (iSchool) and the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI). 

Biographies: 

Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar is a South Lebanese archivist, historian, and educator. She is Assistant Professor in Archival Information & Digital Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, founding director of the Archives & Digital Media Lab, and a Research Affiliate at the American University of Beirut’s School of Architecture & Design. Ghaddar serves as Co-Chair of the International Council on Archives’ Palestine/Lebanon Archives Task Force; and Chair of the Middle East Librarians Association’s Archives & Records Management Training & Advocacy Group. Ghaddar serves as a co-lead with Dr. Rami Zurayk and Dr. Hanine Shehadeh of the project, Fighting Erasure: Digitizing Gaza’s Genocide and the War on Lebanon.  

Dr. Hanine Shehadeh is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities at NY Abu Dhabi. Her research focuses on the intersections between settler colonialism, climate change, and new media. She is deconstructing the global framing of climate change and environmental justice, exploring how these issues are intricately tied to the settler-colonial reality in Palestine. Her academic work interrogates how new media landscapes can reinforce or resist digital colonialism, particularly in relation to indigenous identities and colonial subjugation. She contributes to a collaborative project with the Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences at AUB, examining the dynamics of settler colonialism and its socio-political implications. Dr. Shehadeh earned her Ph.D. in Intellectual History from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Her dissertation, which explored the historical construction of the "dishonorable Jew" in European Christian antisemitism and Zionism, was nominated for Columbia University's Salo and Jeanette Baron Prize in Jewish Studies. She is also a recipient of Columbia University's Humanities War and Peace Initiative award for her work on affect formation in settler-colonial societies.

Raymond Frogner has an MA from the University of Victoria and an MAS degree from the University of British Columbia. He is the Head of Archives and Director of Research for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. His publications have twice won the Kaye Lamb Prize and the Alan D. Ridge Award of Merit. He is a recent Fellow of the ACA. In 2018, he became Co-chair of the ICA Special Committee on Indigenous Matters. He was principal author of “Tandanya/The Adelaide Declaration”, the official ICA Declaration on archives and Indigenous rights. He continues to write on matters of Indigenous identity and archives.

Dr. Ana Roeschley is Assistant Professor and Director of Archival Studies in the Department of Information Science at the University of North Texas. She is the founder and Co-Director of two research labs: the Archives Learning Lab—dedicated to investigating the relationships between people and archives in an ever-changing world; and the Computational Humanities and Information Literacy Lab—an interdisciplinary lab focused on the exploration of social and technological issues impacting human culture, heritage, and the arts and humanities.  Her research on personal and participatory archiving practices, as well as her own experiences as a refugee, led Roeschley to her role as the Principal Investigator of Records of Refuge: Supporting Refugee Communities’ Archival Needs (RoR), an applied research study aiming 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, 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.

Nigel V. Nugawela  is a trained Archivist and Records Manager focusing on human rights archiving, access to information, evidence, records management, and metadata development. He currently operates as a consultant, advising various organisations on ARM-related projects. He was a founding trustee of the Collective for Historical Dialogue & Memory (CHDM) and was previously associated with the Centre for Policy Alternatives (2009-2012), Groundviews (2009-2012), Consultation Task Force on Reconciliation Mechanisms (2016-2018), and the Strengthening Reconciliation Processes in Sri Lanka (SRP) programme (2019-2022). N. V. Nugawela read for an MA (Hons.) in Politics at the University of Edinburgh and, as a Chevening Scholar, for an MA in Archives and Records Management at University College London (UCL), where he was awarded the Sir Hilary Jenkinson Prize (2018/9).

Dr. Mariam Karim is a Lebanese-Iraqi scholar and organizer. She is the founder of the digital archival storytelling project Nasawiyyah: Arab Media History and a Steering Council member of the Archives & Digital Media Lab.  Her work explores Arab women’s anti-colonial media from the 20th century. She is completing a Global Postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (2023-2026). Karim completed her PhD at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information (iSchool) and the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI).