Tonia Sutherland

Dr. Tonia Sutherland (dates unknown) is an American archivist, archives educator, and expert on Black archival studies who conducts research on critical and liberatory views of archival studies, digital studies, and science and technology studies. Sutherland holds a master's degree in library and information science, earned in 2005, and a doctorate, earned in 2014, from the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, performance studies, and cultural studies from Hampshire College.

Sutherland is the child of two Caribbean immigrants and grew up in Pennsylvania. She is a queer Black woman and first-generation college graduate.

Her published books include Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife, published by the University of California Press in October 2023.

Selected academic publications

• Cifor, M., Garcia, P., Cowan, T.L., Rault, J., Sutherland, T., Chan, A., Rode, J., Hoffmann, A.L., Salehi, N., Nakamura, L. (2019). Feminist Data Manifest-No. Retrieved from: https://www.manifestno.com/ Retrieved on: 7 June 2024.
• Sutherland, Tonia. “Archival Amnesty: In Search of Black American Transitional and Restorative Justice,”in “Critical Archival Studies,” eds. Michelle Caswell, Ricardo Punzalan, and T-Kay Sangwand. Special issue, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 1, no. 2 (2017). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v1i2.42
• Espinal, I., Sutherland, T., & Roh, C. (2018). “A Holistic Approach for Inclusive Librarianship: Decentering Whiteness in Our Profession.” Library Trends 67 (1), 147–162. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2018.0030
• Sutherland, Tonia. "Making a Killing: On Race, Ritual, and (Re)Membering in Digital Culture" Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture 46, no. 1 (2017), 32–40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2017-0025