Heather Macneil
Professor
Information
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Heather MacNeil is a professor in the Faculty of Information where she teaches courses in the areas of archival theory and method and histories of records and recordkeeping. Her research and publications focus on the trustworthiness of records in analogue and digital environments, archives and archival finding aids as cultural texts, and archival description as rhetorical genre.Heather MacNeil is a professor in the Faculty of Information where she teaches courses in the areas of archival theory and method and histories of records and recordkeeping. Her research and publications focus on the trustworthiness of records in analogue and digital environments, archives and archival finding aids as cultural texts, and archival description as rhetorical genre.
Research Interest
Professor MacNeil is Principal Investigator on a 2016 SSHRC Insight Development Grant investigating the past, present, and possible future of the museum object catalogue. She is also working with Professor Wendy Duff on a SSHRC-funded research project investigating the impact of archives on social justice (2014-17).
