Amanda E. Strauss

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Amanda Strauss is the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Director of the John Hay Library at Brown University where she leads the John Hay Library, which is home to Brown University’s remarkable collections of rare books, manuscripts, and archival material. The Hay and its collections attract an international cohort of researchers, and by implementing a creative and compelling collection policy (https://library.brown.edu/hay/collectionpolicy/), Ms. Strauss is strengthening its profile as one of the preeminent research collections in the United States. 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. from Willamette University. Ms. Strauss is a scholar of human rights archives and 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). https://www.amandaestrauss.com/