Amelia Acker

Amelia Acker is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Information, where she leads the Crtical Data Studies Lab. Her research on data archives and preservation has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the ACM History and Archiving Fellowship. Acker’s research agenda focuses on cultures of mobile computing, emerging digital preservation models, data literacy, personal information management, and metadata standards for data access between private and public archives.