Fiorella Foscarini

Biography

Fiorella Foscarini holds a PhD in archival studies from the University of British Columbia. Before joining the Faculty of Information in January 2010, she worked as Senior Archivist for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) for a decade. Previously, she was Head of the Records Management Office and Intermediate Archives (Ufficio Protocollo e Archivio Generale) with the Province of Bologna (Italy). From 2014 to 2016, she taught archival studies in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands).Fiorella Foscarini holds a PhD in archival studies from the University of British Columbia. Before joining the Faculty of Information in January 2010, she worked as Senior Archivist for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) for a decade. Previously, she was Head of the Records Management Office and Intermediate Archives (Ufficio Protocollo e Archivio Generale) with the Province of Bologna (Italy). From 2014 to 2016, she taught archival studies in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

Research Interest

Professor Foscarini is interested in the relationship between recordkeeping and information culture. She uses rhetorical genre studies to explore the interactions taking place when records are created and used in organizational contexts. She participates in an ICA-funded project entitled “Learning to Walk the Talk,” whose goal is to develop an information culture toolkit that organizations can use to diagnose their own information culture and to promote recordkeeping in their workplace. She is co-investigator in a SSHRC partnership grant project, InterPARES Trust, aiming at establishing a framework for trusting records in online environments.