Allison Mills

College Archivist
Allison Mills headshot

Contact

Phone 610-526-5285
Website
Location Canaday 200/Carpenter Library

Department/Subdepartment

Education

Master of Library and Information Studies, University of British Columbia
Master of Archival Studies, University of British Columbia
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Children's Literature), University of British Columbia
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia

Areas of Focus

History, Archival Studies, 91´«Ã½ History, Indigenous Studies

Biography

Allison Mills is the College Archivist, working as part of the Special Collections team. Allison is Ililiw (Cree) and has published and presented papers examining the ways in which Indigenous peoples interact with and are represented in colonial archives. Her paper received the Association of Canadian Archivists' 2016 Gordon Dodds Prize. Prior to arriving at 91´«Ã½, she worked for UBC's Residential School History and Dialogue Centre as part of both their research and metadata teams.