Michelle Caswell

Michelle Caswell 'yar asalin Amurka ce kuma masanin kimiyya da aka sani da aikinta game da Tarihin al'umma da hanyoyin da ake amfani da su wajen yin amfani da ayyukan adana bayanai da ke da tushe a cikin wariyar launin fata da kuma adawa da zalunci. Ita ce farfesa a fannin nazarin tarihi a Sashen Nazarin Bayanai a Jami'ar California, Los Angeles kuma ita ce darakta na Lab na Tarihin Al'umma na makarantar.

## Ayyuka
Caswell ta kamMA digiri na biyu a fannin addini a Jami'ar Columbia da kuma MA a fannin Addinai na duniya a Jami'an Harvard. Da yake sha'awar al'adun Asiya ta Kudu, ta ɗauki darussan da ke mai da hankali kan al'ummomin da ke da alaƙa. A cikin wata hira da aka yi da ita a shekarar 2018 tare da kungiyar Archives and Records Association, ta bayyana cewa: "Na yi tunanin cewa na iya zama farfesa a fannin nazarin Asiya ta Kudu ko nazarin addini, amma ina fitowa daga asalin ma'aikata, ba ni da jagora ko abin koyi don taimakawa wajen karɓar sana'a. "  Bayan kammala karatunta, ta yi aiki a tallace-tallace da tara kuɗi kafin ta yanke shawarar neman aiki a fannin kimiyyar bayanai.  Ta sami MLIS daga Jami'ar Wisconsin-Milwaukee da PhD a Makarantar Laburaren da Nazarin Bayanai a Jami'arisconsin-Madison . 

Caswell ta yi aiki na ɗan lokaci a Jami'ar Chicago a matsayin mataimakiyar marubuciya ta Kudancin Asiya yayin da take karatun MLIS, inda ta sadu da Samip Mallick .  Tare sun kafa Kudancin Asiya na Amurka Digital Archive, wani ajiyar dijital na bayan kulawa don kayan da suka shafi al'ummar Kudancin Asia a Amurka, a cikin 2008  .

Bayan karatunta na PhD, sashen nazarin bayanai a Jami'ar California, Los Angeles ne ya hayar da Caswell. Mataimakin farfesa na nazarin tarihin, tana koyar da darussan da suka shafi ka'idar tarihin da aiki tare da mai da hankali kan Adalci na zamantakewa, haƙƙin ɗan adam, da Tarihin al'umma. Ita ce kuma darakta na UCLA Community Archives Lab .  A matsayin wani ɓangare na aikin darasi ita da ƙungiyar ɗalibai sun haɓaka hanyar gani don rushe fararen fata a cikin ɗakunan ajiya.   Courtney Dean, Shugaban Cibiyar Nazarin Firamare da Horarwa a UCLA, ya kira aikin Caswell a wannan yanki a matsayin "canjin teku a cikin sana'a".

Littafin Caswell na 2014, Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia ya bincika gadon Khmer Rouge. An ba da lambar yabo ta Waldo Gifford Leland ta Society of American Archivists a cikin 2015 tare da kwamitin bita yana mai lura da cewa "ya yi nasara a cikin aikinsa na 'ƙalubalanci masu adana bayanai don rungumar ikon kansu don magance shiru da aka saka a cikin rubuce-rubuce, musamman rubuce-aikacen da ke tattare da cin zarafin ɗan adam'.  A cikin 2017, an ba ta lambar yabo ta SAA's Fellows' Ernst Posner Award, tare da abokan hulɗa Marika Cifor da Mario H. Ramirez, don labarinsu "To Suddenly Discover the Community Unelfing the Existing the Community Archives".  Har ila yau, ƙungiyar masu adana bayanai ta Kanada ta amince da gudummawar Caswell ga sana'ar. Ita da marubuta Gracen Brilmyer, Joyce Gabiola da Jimmy Zavala, an ba su kyautar Hugh A. Taylor ta 2020 don labarinsu "Reciprocal Archival Imaginaries: The Shifting Boundaries of "Community" a cikin Community Archives". Ta kuma ba da jawabin cikakken a taron ACA na 2020.  

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