I am an Assistant Professor of Information Studies, which means I teach and think about how knowledge is made and controlled, the use of digital technologies in creating and curating information, and how we can create better access to information resources like archives, libraries, and museums. In my research, I think about the history of museums and how they reproduce legacies of colonialism. I do work with museums broadly on histories of museum bureaucracy and repatriation (returning objects and belongings back to communities of origin). I also wrote a book about the history of anthropological collections and documentation at the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History.I also look at how new digital technologies are used to represent tangible and intangible cultural heritage. For example, I question how 3D printed or copied objects can enable the return of the original belonging. Ultimately, I think very hard about museums as information spaces that, although highly problematic, have unique potentialities.At UBC, I teach graduate students in the School of Information, and I also teach two undergraduate courses in the Informatics Minor: INFO 200: Foundations of Informatics and INFO 301: Digital Cultural Collections.Prior to joining UBC, I worked in the UK in the Museum Studies program at the University of Leicester, and did my PhD at the University of Toronto.