Prof James Lowry

Prof James Lowry

Professor and Chair of the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York

James Lowry is Professor and Chair of the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York. He is the Ellen Libretto and Adam Conrad Endowed Chair in Information Studies, and the founder and director of the Archival Technologies Lab. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London and the University of Liverpool, where he was co-director of the Centre for Archive Studies, following a career in archives. His research is concerned with information and governance, particularly in colonial, post-colonial and diasporic contexts.

His current projects include Displacements and Diasporas, exploring the technical and theoretical problems connected with displaced archives. His recent publications include Disputed Archival Heritage (Routledge, 2022), an edited anthology that won the Society of American Archivists’ Waldo Gifford Leland Award for “writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory or practice”. His writing has been translated into French, Spanish and Portuguese. James is convenor of Archival Discourses, an international research network that fosters critical enquiry into the intellectual history of archival science, and with Dr. Sumayya Ahmed, he co-edits the Routledge Studies in Archives book series.