James Lowry, PhD, is President and Director of the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, University of New York, and is the Ellen Libretto and Adam Conrad Information Studies Professor. He is founder and director of the Archive Technologies Lab (ATL) and honorary researcher at the Liverpool University Center for Archive Studies, where he will teach classes after two years of his career in archives and document management. Lowry has written and extensively researched the archives of displacement, is coordinator of the Archive Discourses, the international intellectual history research archive of archaeological studies, and editor of the Routledge Studies in Archives book series.