Meghan Dougherty

Associate Professor of Digital Communication

Fields: Critical Curation, Critical Infrastructure, Digital Archives, Digital Ethics, Digital Tools, Web Archives

Research Interests: methods for stewardship of web cultural heritage, preservation and interpretation of web history and culture, web archiving as emerging ‌cyberinfrastructure for e-research, evolution of archival practices, ethics of archival research methods, web archaeology as a method for retrospective study of web culture

Professional Activities: Visiting scholar at Århus University, Denmark (2014); postdoctoral research fellow at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Virtual Knowledge Studio (2008)

Relevant Publications: “Web Historiography and the Emergence of New Archival Forms,” with S.M. Schneider, in: D. Park, N. Jankowski and S. Jones (Eds.), The Long History of New Media: Technology, Historiography, and Contextualizing Newness, (Peter Lang, 2011).