Tonia Sutherland Explained

Tonia Sutherland is an American archivist and educator with an expertise in Black archival studies. She conducts research on critical archival studies, digital studies, and science and technology studies. Sutherland earned a master's degree in library and information science in 2005 and a doctorate in 2014 from the University of Pittsburgh.^{[1] [2]} She holds a Bachelor of Arts in history, performance studies, and cultural studies from Hampshire College.

Sutherland is the child of two Caribbean immigrants and grew up in Pennsylvania. She identifies as queer and is a first-generation college graduate.^[1]

Her published books include Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife, published by the University of California Press in October 2023.^[3]

Publications

Books

• Book: Sutherland, Tonia . Resurrecting the black body: race and the digital afterlife . 2023 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-38386-9 . Oakland, California. ^{[4] [5]}

Book chapters

• Book: Sutherland, Tonia . Archiving Caribbean Identity: Records, Community, and Memory . Sturtz . Linda . Kerr . Paulette . 2022-04-22 . Routledge . 978-1-003-10529-9 . Aarons . John A. . London . en . Resistance in/and the Pre-Emancipation Archives . 10.4324/9781003105299 . Bastian . Jeannette A. . Jeannette Bastian . Griffin . Stanley H.. ^[6]
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Selected articles

• Web site: Cifor, M., Garcia, P., Cowan, T.L., Rault, J., Sutherland, T., Chan, A., Rode, J., Hoffmann, A.L., Salehi, N., Nakamura, L. . 2019 . Feminist Data Manifest-No . June 7, 2024.
• Sutherland . Tonia . 2017-06-05 . Archival Amnesty: In Search of Black American Transitional and Restorative Justice . Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies . en . 1 . 2 . 10.24242/jclis.v1i2.42 . 2572-1364.
• Espinal . Isabel . Sutherland . Tonia . Roh . Charlotte . 2018 . A Holistic Approach for Inclusive Librarianship: Decentering Whiteness in Our Profession . Library Trends . 67 . 1 . 147–162 . 10.1353/lib.2018.0030 . 1559-0682. 2142/101941 . free .
• Sutherland . Tonia . 2017-04-28 . Making a Killing: On Race, Ritual, and (Re)Membering in Digital Culture . Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture . en . 46 . 1 . 32–40 . 10.1515/pdtc-2017-0025 . 2195-2965.

Notes and References

1. Web site: "Tonia Sutherland, Candidate for Council" . 2021 Slate of Candidates . Society of American Archivists . 7 June 2024 . May 24, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220524190827/https://www2.archivists.org/governance/election/2021/Sutherland . live .
2. Web site: "Tonia Sutherland Appointed as LIS Assistant Professor" . University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa LIS Program . 7 June 2024 . 12 June 2018 . June 3, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240603142316/https://www.hawaii.edu/lis/2018/06/12/tonia-sutherland-appointed-as-lis-assistant-professor/ . live .
3. Web site: Resurrecting the Black Body Race by Tonia Sutherland . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231124062144/https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383876/resurrecting-the-black-body . November 24, 2023 . 7 June 2024 . University of California Press.
4. Black . Shelly . 2024-06-21 . Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife, by Tonia Sutherland (2023): Book Review . The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) . 8 . 2 . 159–161 . 10.33137/ijidi.v8i2.43543 . 2574-3430. free .
5. Fletcher . Akil . June 2024 . Resurrecting the Black body: Race and the digital afterlife By ToniaSutherland, Berkely, CA: University of California Press. 2023. 214 pp. . Medical Anthropology Quarterly . en . 38 . 2 . 243–244 . 10.1111/maq.12845 . 0745-5194.
6. Minott . Rachael . 2023-09-02 . Archiving Caribbean Identity: records, community, and memory: Edited by John A. Aarons, Jeannette A. Bastian, and Stanley H. Griffin, Oxford, Routledge, 2022, 264 pp., £130 (hardback) ISBN 9780367615093 . Archives and Records . en . 44 . 3 . 361–363 . 10.1080/23257962.2023.2264200 . 2325-7962.
7. Adler . Melissa . May 2023 . Knowledge justice: Disrupting library and information studies through critical race theory. By Sofia Y.Leung, Jorge R.López‐McKnight, Cambridge: The MIT Press. 2021. pp. 358. $35.00 (xxxx). ISBN : 9780262043502 . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology . en . 74 . 5 . 594–598 . 10.1002/asi.24738 . 2330-1635.