Research in the Archival Multiverse is the first collection of critical and reflective essays produced as part of an ongoing collaborative research initiative funded through grants from the US Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Centred at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) and led by a consortium of academic institutions, the Archival Education and Research Initiative was established in 2008 to encourage curricular and pedagogical innovation within archival studies and to support doctoral research within the archival field. One of the major undertakings of the initiative was to develop the annual week-long summer Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI), which brings together emerging scholars and academic faculty as well as others working in archival education and scholarship. Throughout its first two cycles of IMLS funding, the initiative helped support student attendance at AERIs and committed to nurturing a larger and more diverse cohort of doctoral researchers in the field. Additional IMLS grants have also funded the Emerging Archival Scholars Program (EASP), a recruitment and outreach program that targets undergraduate and graduate students from backgrounds that are under-represented in the field and who are considering doctoral work in archival studies. The EASP provides bursaries and scholarships to assist students to attend AERIs and to support their scholarship throughout the rest of the year. The inaugural AERI was hosted at UCLA in 2009 and has been held in subsequent years at the University of Michigan (2010), Simmons College (2011), UCLA (2012), University of Texas at Austin (2013), University of Pittsburgh (2014), University of Maryland (2015), and Kent State University (2016). In 2017, the University of Toronto became the first institution outside of the United States to host an AERI.
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