Rebecka Sheffield | |
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Born | 1976 |
Citizenship | Canadian |
Occupation(s) | archivist, scholar, records manager |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | The Emergence, Development and Survival of Four Lesbian and Gay Archives [1] (2015) |
Doctoral advisor | Patrick Keilty |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Archives of Ontario, Simmons University, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto |
Rebecka Sheffield is an archivist, scholar, and policy advisor. She is a Senior Policy Advisor of the Archives of Ontario and teaches information science in American and Canadian universities.
Rebecka Sheffield is a previous director of the ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives and vice-president of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA).[1][2][3] She has a bachelor's degree in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Saskatchewan, a Master's Degree in archival studies from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the University of Toronto in collaboration with the Mark S. Bonham Center for Sexual Diversity Studies.[4][5]
Sheffield is a scholar in archival science. She is the author of Documenting Rebellions: A Study of Four Lesbian and Gay Archives in Queer Times, which discusses the relationship between archives and social movements within the LGBTQ2+ community.[6] She has also worked as a public advocate about the preservation of queer cultural history in Toronto.[7][8]
Rebecka Sheffield's archival contributions focuses on community archives, and historical and cultural heritage movements in LGBTQ2+ communities.[7]
Sheffield is the lead of an archival and artistic project The Bedside Table Archives, which documents objects found on the bedside tables of lesbian and queer women.[9] The project focuses on the home as a space for identity construction while questioning the heteronormativity of such spaces.
She has also published Documenting rebellions: A Study of Four Lesbian and Gay Archives in Queer Times, which focuses on four institutions that preserve the records of queer folk.