About me
Sony Prosper is a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan School of Information. His interests are broadly the social, cultural, and historical contexts of record-keeping practices, museum practices, intangible cultural heritage, and technology use, particularly in the US and the Caribbean. His research has concerned archival return and repatriation, how members and volunteers of community and grassroots archives conceptualize records, and how their conceptualizations inform archival programs and practices. Previously, he worked at the University of Virginia Library, where his work included collection development, archival processing, exhibition curation, instruction, and outreach. He holds a Master's in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons University (formerly known as Simmons College).