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Kathy Carbone serves as an Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute's School of Information and Visiting Faculty at CCS Bard, co-founding and directing The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action. She is also affiliated with Pratt's Spatial Analysis & Visualization Initiative.
Her educational background includes a Ph.D. in Information Studies from UCLA.
Carbone's research integrates contemporary art and critical archival studies to explore archives as tools for expressive resistance, fostering solidarity through collaborative preservation of contemporary artworks. Her work bridges archival science, library and information studies, and community action methodologies, emphasizing participatory and community-led approaches to forced migration narratives.
Prior roles include over a decade as CalArts Institute Archivist and Performing Arts Librarian, directorship of the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center Library in Kigali, Rwanda, and Public Services/Outreach Manager at Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library System. As a professional modern dancer, she performed with Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater and Jo Kreiter/Flyaway Productions across multiple U.S. cities.
