Amanda E. Strauss

Amanda E. Strauss

Manager, Special Projects & Digital Services, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Speaker, Panel 3, Why Partner?
Headshot, Amanda Strauss

Amanda Strauss is the Manager of Special Projects and Digital Services at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. She earned her MLIS with a concentration in Archival Studies from Simmons College and her MA in History from Simmons College. She also holds a B.A. in History and Spanish from Willamette University. Amanda’s work focuses on visioning and managing the library’s cutting-edge digital services program and on structuring and implementing a wide range of library projects. She also specializes in teaching with primary sources and is a scholar of human rights archives, as well as twentieth century women’s movements in the United States. She is the author of “Treading the Ground of Contested Memory: Archivists and the Human Rights Movement in Chile” (Archival Science 2015).