Tonia Sutherland

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. 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.

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

Publications

Books

Sutherland, Tonia (2023). Resurrecting the black body: race and the digital afterlife. Oakland, California: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-38386-9.

Book chapters

Sutherland, Tonia; Sturtz, Linda; Kerr, Paulette (April 22, 2022). "Resistance in/and the Pre-Emancipation Archives". In Aarons, John A.; Bastian, Jeannette A.; Griffin, Stanley H. (eds.). Archiving Caribbean Identity: Records, Community, and Memory. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003105299. ISBN 978-1-003-10529-9.
Sutherland, Tonia (April 13, 2021), "Introduction to Part III: Freedom Stories", in Leung, Sofia Y.; López-McKnight, Jorge R. (eds.), Knowledge Justice, The MIT Press, pp. 219–222, doi:10.7551/mitpress/11969.003.0016, ISBN 978-0-262-36320-4, retrieved September 5, 2024.

Selected articles

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". Retrieved June 7, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Sutherland, Tonia (June 5, 2017). "Archival Amnesty: In Search of Black American Transitional and Restorative Justice". Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies. 1 (2). doi:10.24242/jclis.v1i2.42. ISSN 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. doi:10.1353/lib.2018.0030. hdl:2142/101941. ISSN 1559-0682.
Sutherland, Tonia (April 28, 2017). "Making a Killing: On Race, Ritual, and (Re)Membering in Digital Culture". Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture. 46 (1): 32–40. doi:10.1515/pdtc-2017-0025. ISSN 2195-2965.

References

1 2 ""Tonia Sutherland, Candidate for Council"". 2021 Slate of Candidates. Society of American Archivists. Archived from the original on May 24, 2022. Retrieved June 7, 2024.
↑ ""Tonia Sutherland Appointed as LIS Assistant Professor"". University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa LIS Program. June 12, 2018. Archived from the original on June 3, 2024. Retrieved June 7, 2024.
↑ "Resurrecting the Black Body Race by Tonia Sutherland". University of California Press. Archived from the original on November 24, 2023. Retrieved June 7, 2024.
↑ Black, Shelly (June 21, 2024). "Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife, by Tonia Sutherland (2023): Book Review". The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion. 8 (2): 159–161. doi:10.33137/ijidi.v8i2.43543. ISSN 2574-3430.
↑ Fletcher, Akil (June 2024). "Resurrecting the Black body: Race and the digital afterlife by Tonia Sutherland, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2023. 214 pp". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 38 (2): 243–244. doi:10.1111/maq.12845. ISSN 0745-5194.
↑ Minott, Rachael (September 2, 2023). "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. 44 (3): 361–363. doi:10.1080/23257962.2023.2264200. ISSN 2325-7962.
↑ 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. 74 (5): 594–598. doi:10.1002/asi.24738. ISSN 2330-1635.

[SAA-1] 1 2 ""Tonia Sutherland, Candidate for Council"". 2021 Slate of Candidates. Society of American Archivists. Archived from the original on May 24, 2022. Retrieved June 7, 2024.

[2] ""Tonia Sutherland Appointed as LIS Assistant Professor"". University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa LIS Program. June 12, 2018. Archived from the original on June 3, 2024. Retrieved June 7, 2024.

[3] "Resurrecting the Black Body Race by Tonia Sutherland". University of California Press. Archived from the original on November 24, 2023. Retrieved June 7, 2024.

[4] Black, Shelly (June 21, 2024). "Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife, by Tonia Sutherland (2023): Book Review". The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion. 8 (2): 159–161. doi:10.33137/ijidi.v8i2.43543. ISSN 2574-3430.

[5] Fletcher, Akil (June 2024). "Resurrecting the Black body: Race and the digital afterlife by Tonia Sutherland, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2023. 214 pp". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 38 (2): 243–244. doi:10.1111/maq.12845. ISSN 0745-5194.

[6] Minott, Rachael (September 2, 2023). "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. 44 (3): 361–363. doi:10.1080/23257962.2023.2264200. ISSN 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. 74 (5): 594–598. doi:10.1002/asi.24738. ISSN 2330-1635.