Jamie A. Lee

Jamie A. Lee is associate dean for faculty affairs and associate professor of digital culture, information and society in the College of Information Science at the University of Arizona, where they co-founded and direct co/lab: The Critical Archives & Curation Collaborative and the DS|OH: Digital Storytelling and Oral History Lab, which communicates multimodal productions research to a broader public as engaged research. Lee’s book Producing the Archival Body (Routledge, 2021) interrogates how power circulates in archival contexts and builds critical understandings of how archives influence and shape productions of embodied knowledge.

Lee is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, archivist and scholar committed to participatory approaches to projects produced with communities. Lee was awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Early Career Grant to inquire into the politics of description in community-based archives and also the prestigious Agnese Nelms Haury Faculty Fellowship.