Dr. Hannah Turner

Biography

Hannah Turner is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia's School of Information, focusing on Digital Cultural Heritage and EDI Information Ethics. Her research investigates the connection between documentation, culture, and technology, with a specific emphasis on how digital technologies can create and curate information resources akin to museums. She teaches in the iSchool graduate program and classes in the Informatics Minor, such as INFO 200 and INFO 301. Turner critically examines historical documentation practices within ethnographic museums and their relationship with colonial legacies, specifically through her book 'Cataloguing Culture' published by UBC Press in 2020. She has also contributed to research in collaborative digitization projects, the politics of digital access, and decolonization in museum contexts. Turner previously served as a Lecturer in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester and was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Making Culture Lab at Simon Fraser University. She completed her doctorate at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto in 2015.

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