Member of the Graduate Faculty | Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs | Assistant Professor, Social / Cultural / Critical Theory - GIDP | Associate Professor, School of Information
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 their research and teaching attend to critical archival theory and methodologies, community archives, multimodal media-making contexts, storytelling, and bodies. Lee is an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Early Career Grantee through which they are conducting research on community-based archives and archival description practices as well as a Faculty Fellow of the Haury Program for Environment and Social Justice. Lee has published in Archivaria, Archival Science, the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, and Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies. They have also published book chapters related to archival studies, media studies, art & culture, and the history of American sexuality. Lee’s research monograph, Producing the Archival Body, (Routledge, 2021) interrogates how power circulates and is deployed in archival contexts in order to build critical understandings of how deeply archives influence and shape the production of knowledge and human subjectivities. Lee co-directs the Critical Archives & Curation Collaborative, co|lab; and directs the Arizona Queer Archives. They are an award-winning social justice documentary filmmaker, archivist, and scholar.