Dr. J.J Ghaddar Dalhousie University, Canada

Dr. J.J. Ghaddar is a Lebanese writer, archivist, historian, educator, and long-time community organizer. Currently, she is Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University’s Department of Information Science in Kjipuktuk, Mi?kma?ki (homeland of the Mi'kmaq) also known as Halifax, Canada. She also serves as founding director of the Archives & Digital Media Lab housed at the department. Recently, she completed a SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship working with Raymond Frogner (National Centre for Truth & Reconciliation) and Dr. Greg Bak (History Dept.) at the University of Manitoba. For over a decade, Ghaddar has lectured, researched, and published extensively on archival repatriation and decolonization in national and international arenas, from Algeria, France, Canada and Palestine to UNESCO, the Non-Aligned Movement, and International Council on Archives. These include publications on the settler colonial history of Canada’s state archives and the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. She has also brought to light a hidden history of the Third World Project, excavating the anticolonial ethos of the Vienna Convention on Succession to State Property, Archives and Debts (1983) with its radical vision of global archival repatriation. Her publications appear in Disputed archival heritage (2023, Routledge), In the Field (2023), Al-Akhbar (2023), Mondoweiss (2022), Archival Science (2020; 2016), Library Quarterly (2017), and Archivaria (2016). Ghaddar holds a PhD and Master of Information from the University of Toronto.