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Allan A. Martell is an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Library Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. In his work, Martell explores how societies negotiate social memories of violence, the role of information curation in shaping such memories, and possible frameworks to promote more critical, nuanced memories.

A book chapter based on his recent work in El Salvador will also be published in a forthcoming book chapter in the edited volume "Historical Memory and Sociocultural Transformation" co-edited by the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Central American University Press (UCA Editores). Similarly, a recent study about the recordkeeping practices of military veterans, of which Martell is first author, will be published in Archivaria in the Spring of 2023.

Martell received his Ph.D. in Information from the School of Information at the University of Michigan, an M.S. in Digital Media from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.A. in Social Communications from the Central American University (El Salvador). Before joining the faculty at Indiana University, Martell was a postdoctoral researcher at Louisiana State University.