# Hi, I am an Associate Professor in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. I serve as an editor of the Journal of Cultural Analytics, an open-access journal dedicated to the computational study of culture, which I lead collaboratively with Dr. Tanya Clement and Dr. Meredith Martin.
# My research is concerned with the emergence, standardization, and preservation of information. In particular, I study the ways data is represented and managed over time. Currently, I am researching people who build and maintain data technologies, data archives, and information infrastructures that support long-term cultural memory. This research has been funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the National Science Foundation, Sloan Foundation and Ford Foundation, and the ACM History and Archiving Fellowship.
# My book Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms was published by MIT Press in 2025. The book examines the origins of data archives and computing processes of storage, exchange, and transmission. I argue that these data archiving processes shape the access regimes and data sovereignty we experience today.
Amelia Acker, PhD
amelia.acker [at] rutgers.edu