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Dr. Ana Roeschley

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Information Science

(940) 565-2618

Email: ana.roeschley@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of North Texas, 2021
    Major: Information Science
    Specialization: Archival Science
    Dissertation: “Take the Trouble to Compile a Whole New World: The Role of Event-Based Participatory Projects in Institutional Archives”
  • MA, Simmons College, 2013
    Major: History
    Specialization: Cultural Heritage
    Dissertation: “Memories of Vijecnica: The Siege of Sarajevo and the Destruction of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina”
  • MS, Simmons College, 2013
    Major: Library and Information Science
    Specialization: Archival Science
  • BA, University of Texas at Austin, 2008
    Major: English

Professional Memberships

  • Association for Library and Information Science Education. (2020 - Present).

Development Activities

  • Other, The Inclusive Learning & Mentoring Reading Group at UNT, UNT Provost. Texas,United States of America. (September 2022 - May 2023).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • INFO 5090 - Practicum and Internship in the Field Study, 1 course.
  • INFO 5092 - Musem Archive Professional Internship, 2 courses.
  • INFO 5290 - Special Collections and Archives, 4 courses.
  • INFO 5295 - Preservation, 12 courses.
  • INFO 5371 - Archives and Manuscripts, 2 courses.
  • INFO 5380 - Contemporary Issues in Archival Science, 1 course.
  • INFO 5381 - Cultural Heritage Stewardship, 1 course.
  • INFO 5740 - Introduction to Digital Libraries, 2 courses.
  • INFO 5741 - Digital Humanities, 2 courses.
  • INFO 5841 - Digital Curation Fundamentals, 2 courses.
  • INFO 5900 - Special Problems, 7 courses.
  • INFO 5960 - Library and Information Sciences Institute or Seminar, 3 courses.
  • INFO 6660 - Readings in Information Science, 6 courses.
  • INFO 6900 - Special Problems, 7 courses.
  • INFO 6910 - Special Problems, 1 course.
  • INFO 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation, 9 courses.

Teaching at Other Institutions

  • LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, LIS 7703 Advanced Seminar in Archival Studies, Summer 2022.
  • LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, LIS 7704 Archival Arrangement and Description, Spring 2022.
  • LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, LIS 7408 Introduction to Archival Theory, Principles & Practice, Spring 2022.
  • Louisiana State University, LIS 7004 Management of Information Organizations, Spring 2022.

Non-Credit Instruction

  • Seminar, International Council on Archives (ICA), 48 participants. (December 2024).
  • Guest Lecture, (2023).
  • Guest Lecture, (2023).
  • Guest Lecture, (2023).
  • Guest Lecture, (2023).
  • Public Lecture, (2023).

Directed Student Learning

  • Directed Individual/Independent Study, Information Science. (2026).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Information Science. (January 2023).
  • Major Professor, Information Science. (October 2022).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Information Science. (March 2022).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Other - Outside UNT. (October 2020).
  • Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, History. (2024 - December 2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Information Science. (October 2022 - December 2024).
  • Supervised Research, "Applying Archival Theory to Dictionary Building," Information Science. (January 2023 - December 2023).

Awards and Honors

  • University of North Texas College of Information Innovation Spotlight Award, University of North Texas College of Information. (December 2025).
  • University of North Texas College of Information Innovation Spotlight Award, University of North Texas College of Information. (November 2024).
  • Faculty Excellence Award, University of North Texas College of Information. (November 2023).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Chapter

  • Paterson, H.J., Zavalina, O.L., Roeschley, A., Coronado, S. (2025). Language resource stewardship and the archival multiverse. Archival Pedagogies. Tampere, Tampere University Press.
  • Roeschley, A., Kim, J., Zavalina, O.L. (2020). An Exploration of Contributor-Created Description Field in Participatory Archives. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 638-648. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43687-2_54
  • Benoit III, E., Roeschley, A. (2019). Degrees of mediation: a review of the intersectionality between community and participatory archives. Participatory Archives. 159-172. Facet. https://doi.org/10.29085/9781783303588.014

    • Conference Proceeding

  • Frederick, M., Roeschley, A., Brown, N., Khader, D., Braga, D. (2025). Replicating hospitality: Reframing a documentary linguistics digital archiving curriculum to meet the needs of refugees and their service workers. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc-2025. University of North Texas. https://doi.org/10.12794/langarc2543329
  • Alazai, K., Roeschley, A., Cleveland, A.D. (2025). Health-Seeking Behaviors of the Displaced Afghan Women in Pakistan. 2025: ALISE Proceedings.
  • Roeschley, A., Du, Y., Evans, L.E., NathanB. (2025). Experiential Learning without Exploitation? Autoethnographic Reflections on Cultural Heritage Stewardship Pedagogy. University of Illinois, The Association for Library and Information Science Education.
  • Frederick, M., Zavalina, O.L., Roeschley, A. (2025). Beyond language archives: Proposing the archival community informatics framework as an interdisciplinary link to revitalization lexicography. Proceedings of the iConference 2025. iSchools. https://doi.org/10.47989/ir30iConf46942
  • Roeschley, A., Ding, J., Xie, H., Du, Y. (2024). Digital Libraries for Cultural Heritage Data Curation and Stewardship. Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. 1-2. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677389.3702573
  • Benoit, E., Thiele , J., Roeschley, A. (2023). Consistency Matters: Comparing Term-based and Semester-based Online MLIS Education.. Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference..
  • Roeschley, A., Buchanan, S.A., Burke, M., Graf, A., Zavalina, O.L. (2020). Considering individual and community contexts within information pedagogy, scholarship, and practice. Proceedings of the 83rd Annual meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technologies. ASIS&T.
  • Roeschley, A., Kim, J., Zavalina, O.L. (2020). An exploration of contributor-created Description field in participatory archives. Proceedings of the iConference 2020. iSchools.

    • Journal Article

  • Lund, B.D., Brown, N., Roeschley, A., Hossain, G. (2026). PDPL metric: validating a scale to measure personal data privacy literacy among university students. Other. 1-11. Informa UK Limited. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2026.2614050
  • Chung, H., Pérez, S.L., Hong, L., Roeschley, A. (2025). Information Needs for Immigrants in Crisis and the Role of Public Library: A Systematic Literature Review. Public Library Quarterly. 1-23. Informa UK Limited. https://doi.org/10.1080/01616846.2025.2587545
  • Lund, B.D., Anderson, B., Roeschley, A., Hossain, G. (2025). Understanding the relationship between personal data privacy literacy and data privacy information sharing by university students. Journal of Information Science. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515251379049
  • Homero Rendon Cuevas, Brady Lund, Roeschley, A., Morgan Gieringer. (2025). ARCHIV-ALL MSI. Other. University of Illinois Main Library. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2025.2068
  • Rendon Cuevas, H., Lund, B., Roeschley, A., Gieringer, M. (2025). ARCHIV-ALL MSI. Other. University of Illinois Main Library. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2025.2055
  • Roeschley, A., Brown, N., Du, Y., Evans, L., Ada, A., Kinza Alizai, Jupiter Allen, Brianna Afemon, Bailey Bark, Heather Breslin, Merrion Dale Frederick, Abigail Fosburgh, Alexandria Hernandez, Caitlin Jones, Taylor Lauren Lacy, Mollie Meek, Julia Ballarin Missawa, Alice Passon, Patricia Perez, Emily Pojman, Kenneth Saintonge, Isabel Saldivar, Haiden Scheffrin, Joseph Sioui, Julane Teel, Crystal Tharayil, Autumn Wagner. (2025). Experiential Learning without Student Exploitation?. Other. University of Illinois Main Library. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2025.2064
  • Alizai, K., Roeschley, A., Cleveland, A. (2025). Health-Seeking Behaviors of the Displaced Afghan Women in Pakistan. Other. University of Illinois Main Library. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2025.2102
  • Roeschley, A., Crystal Tharayil, Kinza Alizai, Merrion Dale Frederick, Brianna Afemon, Homero Rendon Cuevas, Nathan Brown. (2025). Meeting the Moment. Other. University of Illinois Main Library. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2025.2066
  • Bossaller, J., Long, B., Roeschley, A., Teasdale, R., Vardell, E. (2025). The Inside Scoop. Other. University of Illinois Main Library. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2025.1975
  • Jupiter Allen, Roeschley, A. (2025). WARNING! Sensitive Content Ahead. Other. University of Illinois Main Library. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2025.2065
  • Roeschley, A., Lanier, A., Frederick, M.D., Siebert, K., Dentler, L., Alberque, L., Nasiripour, P., Tharayil, C., Fralia, C. (2025). “We Were Working Alongside with, rather than for, a Professor”: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Fostering Community and Research Skills through Project-Based Learning in Online LIS Education. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress). https://doi.org/10.3138/jelis-2024-0088
  • Frederick, M., Roeschley, A., Zavalina, O.L. (2025). Beyond language archives: proposing the archival community informatics framework as an interdisciplinary link to revitalization lexicography. Other. 30 (iConf) 1169-1179. University of Borås. https://doi.org/10.47989/ir30iconf46942
  • Lund, B., Anderson, B., Roeschley, A., Hossain, G. (2025). Understanding the relationship between personal data privacy literacy and data privacy information sharing by university students. Journal of Information Science. https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/105019335945
  • Lanier, A., Money, C., Roeschley, A., O'Connor, B. (2024). Proceed with Caution! Trigger Warnings in Online Book-related Information Grounds. Other. University of Illinois Main Library. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2024.1670
  • Roeschley, A., Merrion Dale Frederick. (2024). The Difference Between Passive Subjects and Autonomous Actors: Proposing an Orientation Toward Consent in Library and Information Science. Other. University of Illinois Main Library. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2024.1726
  • Roeschley, A., Miller, J., Nikitopoulos, A., Gieringer, M.D., Holden, J. (2024). Archiving difficult realities: a systematic investigation of records related to sexual violence in US college and university archives. Archival Science. 24 (3) 387-414. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-024-09434-0
  • Roeschley, A. (2024). Symbiosis or friction: Understanding participant motivations for information sharing and institutional goals in participatory archive initiatives. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. 56 (3) 551-565. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006231154912
  • Kim, J., Roeschley, A., Mimi, B. (2024). Building bridges, preserving voices: Key factors in community oral history stewardship. Journal of Documentation. 80 (6) 1458-1474. Emerald.
  • Kim, J., Roeschley, A., Byun, M. (2024). Building bridges and preserving voices: key factors in community oral history stewardship. Journal of Documentation. 80 (6) 1458-1474. Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/jd-11-2023-0247
  • Roeschley, A. (2023). “They care enough to document people's stories”: Using ethnographic methods to understand collection day outreach events in participatory archives. Library and Information Science Research. Elsevier.
  • Benoit, E., Thiele, J., Roeschley, A. (2023). Consistency Matters. Other. University of Illinois Main Library. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2023.1319
  • Roeschley, A., Buchanan, S.A., Burke, M., Graf, A., Zavalina, O.L. (2020). Considering individual and community contexts within information pedagogy, scholarship, and practice. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 57 (1) Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.283
  • Holden, J., Roeschley, A. (2020). Privacy and Access in the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Records. The American Archivist. 83 (1) 77-90. Society of American Archivists. https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-83.1.77
  • Roeschley, A., Kim, J. (2019). “Something that feels like a community”: the role of personal stories in building community-based participatory archives. Archival Science. 19 (1) 27-49. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09302-2
  • Roeschley, A. (2019). Using text mining and data visualization to trace the disciplinary boundaries of collective memory studies. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 56 (1) 747-749. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.159

    • Poster

  • Byun, M., Roeschley, A., Kim, J. (2023). A Scoping Review of Oral History in Cultural Heritage Institutions. Society of American Archivists.
  • Bussey, J., Lund , B., Roeschley, A. (2023). Accessibility to HBCU Archives: Mapping Access to Information About Archives and Archival Resources in HBCUs. Society of American Archivists.

    • White Paper

  • Kim, J., Moye, T., Roeschley, A. (2024). Connecting communities with libraries, archives, and historians through oral history. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2360957

Presentations Given

    Oral Presentation

  • Paterson, H.J. (Author), Roeschley, A. (Author & Presenter), Coronado, S. (Author), Zavalina, O.L. (Author), 16th Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI), Training Archivists About Language Collections, Abu Dhabi, UAE, United Arab Emirates. (2024 - 2024).

    • Panel Presentation

  • Roeschley, A. (Panelist), Caldwell, D. (Panelist), International Conference on Knowledge management 2017, Big Data, Ethics, and Public Engagement, United States of America. (2017).

    • Paper

  • Roeschley, A. (Leader), Du, Y. (Author & Presenter), Evans, L.E. (Author & Presenter), , S. (Author & Presenter), Decolonising Pedagogies: Agency, Identity, Practices, Experiential Learning without Student Exploitation? An Autoethnography of Cultural Heritage Stewardship Pedagogy, Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), Kansas City, United States of America. (2025 - 2025).

    • Poster

  • Alizai, K. (Author & Presenter), Cleveland, A.D. (Author), Roeschley, A. (Author), O'Connor, B.C. (Author), Fifth Annual Texas Health Informatics Alliance Conference, Cataloging the Biomedical Traditions of Pakistan: A Taxonomic Approach, Texas Health Informatics Alliance, Arlington, TX, United States of America. (2025 - 2025).

Media Contributions

    Newspaper

  • "University research team awarded $100,000 grant to study Minority-Serving Institutions," North Texas Daily. (2024).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Kim, J. (Principal), Moye, T. (Co-Principal), Roeschley, A. (Co-Principal), "Community oral history/storytelling curatorial fellowship program," sponsored by Institute of Museum and Library Services, Federal, $249998 Funded. (2025).
  • Roeschley, A. (Co-Principal), Kim, J. (Principal), Moye , T. (Co-Principal), "Connecting Communities with Libraries, Archives, and Historians through Oral Histories," sponsored by Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Federal, $69734 Funded. (2022).
  • Hong, L. (Principal), Roeschley, A. (Co-Principal), Du, Y. (Co-Principal), "Inclusive Services to Enhance Immigrants' Resilience to Natural Disasters," sponsored by IMLS, Federal, $415366 Funded. (2024 - 2027).
  • Roeschley, A. (Principal), "Records of Refuge: Supporting Refugee Communities' Archival Needs," sponsored by Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Federal, $494966 Funded. (2023 - 2026).
  • Lund, B.D. (Principal), Roeschley, A. (Co-Principal), Wheeler, M.B. (Co-Principal), Gieringer, M.D. (Co-Principal), "Advancing Resources for Cultural Heritage, Inclusion, and Visibility for ALL Communities - Minority Serving Institutions (ARCHIV-ALL MSI)," sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities, Federal, $97484 Funded. (2024 - 2025).

    • Grant - Teaching

  • Du, Y. (Co-Principal), Evans, L.E. (Co-Principal), Roeschley, A. (Co-Principal), Sharma, M. (Co-Principal), Hyland, P. (Co-Principal), "Stewarding Cultural Heritage: Latino Art, Museums, and Preservation Fellowship (LAMP Fellowship)," sponsored by Institute of Museum and Library Services, Federal, $396362 Funded. (2023 - 2026).

Service

University Service

  • Co-Chair, University COACHE Taskforce on Interdisciplinary Research. (November 2024 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Executive Committee. (September 2024 - Present).
  • Faculty Advisor, ASIS&T Student Chapter. (2024 - Present).
  • Director, Archival Studies Concentration. (October 2022 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Scholarship Committee. (September 2023 - August 2024).
  • Committee Member, Capstone Committee. (September 2022 - August 2023).

Professional Service

  • Board of Directors, Our Refugee Stories Archive. Denton, Texas. (November 2024 - Present).
  • Board of Advisors, Arizona Queer Archives. (December 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Chair, Archival Education and Research Institute: 2023 Institute Sub-Committee on Local Activities. (September 2023 - Present).
  • Editor, Associate Editor, Open Information Science (Journal). (December 2022 - Present).
  • Board of Advisors, The Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL): CoRSAL Directors Board. (November 2022 - Present).
  • Committee Chair, Archival Education and Research Institute: 2023 Institute Sub-Committee on Mentorship. (September 2022 - Present).
  • Committee Chair, Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI): 2023 Institute Planning Committee . (February 2022 - Present).