Allan Martell

Allan Martell is Assistant Professor in Information and Library Science at Indiana University. He earned his Ph.D. from University of Michigan (2020), M.S. from Georgia Tech (2012), and B.A. from Central American University (2008).

His research explores how societies negotiate memories of violence through information curation. Current work examines affective dimensions of memory activism and archival practices. He studies social memory infrastructures and collaborative interpretation frameworks.

Publications analyze archival practices in contexts including HIV/AIDS documentation, military records, Salvadoran cultural trauma, and social media memory. He co-leads projects on community accountability in queer archives and January 6 memory preservation.