Research Interests
Knowledge exchange between heritage institutions, communities, and the public; archives and anthropology; decolonizing methodologies; museums and material culture; impacts of new media and digitization; ethnography of institutions, expertise, and scientific cultures; visitor and user studies; photography and visual anthropology; collections; materiality.
Research Contributions
Peer Reviewed Books
Now in paperback!
Marsh, D.E. From Extinct Monsters to Deep Time: Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls. New York: Berghahn Books (Museums and Collections Series): https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/MarshExtinct
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Peer Reviewed Papers
T. Wagner, D.E. Marsh, and L. Curliss 2023 “Theories and Implications for Centering Indigenous and Queer Embodiment within Sociotechnical Systems.” Journal of the Association for Information and Technology (JASIST) (online first): https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24746
D. E. Marsh, S. St. Andre, T. Wagner, and J.A. Bell 2023 “Attitudes and Uses of Archival Materials among Science-Based Anthropologists.” Archival Science (online first): https://rdcu.be/c5iA6
A. Ndumu, V. Van Hyning, D.E. Marsh, and S. Triola 2023 “Panopticism and Complicity: The state of surveillance and everyday oppression in libraries, archives, and museums.” Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies (4): https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/166
Punzalan, R. and D.E. Marsh 2022 “Reciprocity: Building a Discourse in Archival Science,” The American Archivist 85(1): https://meridian.allenpress.com/american-archivist/article-abstract/85/1/30/483435/Reciprocity-Building-a-Discourse-in-Archives
D.E. Marsh 2023 “Digital Knowledge Sharing: Perspectives on use, impacts, risks, and best practices according to Native American and Indigenous community-based researchers.” Archival Science 23(1): 81–115.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-021-09378-9
Bruchac, M. and D.E. Marsh 2021 “Ephemeral Encounters: Reflections on Representing Jefferson and Native America at the American Philosophical Society,” The Public Historian 43(4), pp. 28-62: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/836698/summary
D.E. Marsh, J.A. Bell, C. Greene, & H. Turner 2021 “Bridging Anthropology and its Archives: An Analysis from the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives,” Anthropology Today 37(2), pp. 19–22: https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8322.12643
Osorio Sunnucks, L, N. Levell, A. Shelton, M. Suzuki, G. Isaac & D.E. Marsh 2020 “Interruptions: Challenges and Innovations in Exhibition Making: The Second World Museologies Workshop, National Museum of Ethnology (MINPAKU) Osaka, December 2019.” Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 8(1), pp. 168–187: https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/museum-worlds/8/1/armw080112.xml
D.E. Marsh, R. Leopold, K. Crowe, & K. Madison 2020 “Access Policies for Native American Archival Materials in the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.” Case Studies on Access Policies for Native American Archival Materials, Society of American Archivists, pp. 1–32: https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/Case_3_Access_Policies_for_Native_American_Archival_Materials.pdf
G. Isaac, D.E. Marsh, L.O. Sunnucks, & A.A. Shelton 2019 “Borders and Interruptions: Museums in the Age of Global Mobility,” Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 7: 189-199: https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/museum-worlds/7/1/armw070112.xml
D.E. Marsh, R. Punzalan, & J. Johnston 2019 “Preserving Anthropology’s Digital Record: CoPAR in the Age of Electronic Fieldnotes, Digital Curation, and Community Sovereignty,” American Archivist 82(2): https://www.americanarchivist.org/doi/abs/10.17723/aarc-82-02-01
Marsh, D.E. 2019 “Research-Driven Approaches to Improving Archival Discovery” in International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology (IASSIST) Quarterly 43(2), pp. 1–9: https://www.iassistquarterly.com/index.php/iassist/article/view/955/938.
Saul, G. and D.E. Marsh 2018 "In Whose Honor? On monuments, public spaces, historical narratives, and memory," Museum Anthropology 41(2), pp. 117–120: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/muan.12178
Punzalan, R.L, D.E. Marsh, and K. Cools 2017 "Beyond Clicks, Likes, and Downloads: Identifying meaningful impacts for digitized ethnographic archives," Archivaria 84, pp. 61–102: https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13614
Marsh, D.E. 2016 “Trace Ethnography, Affect and Institutional Ecologies in the Distributed Records of a Plaster Model,” Museum Anthropology 39(2), pp. 111–129: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/muan.12119
Marsh, D.E., R.L. Punzalan, R. Leopold, B. Butler, M. Petrozzi 2015 “Stories of Impact: The role of narrative in understanding the value and impact of digitized collections,” Archival Science 16(4), pp. 327–372: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-015-9253-5
Marsh, D.E., R.L. Punzalan & R. Leopold 2015 “Studying the Impact of Digitized Ethnographic Collections: Implications for practitioners,” Practicing Anthropology 37(3), pp. 26–31: http://sfaajournals.net/doi/10.17730/0888-4552-37.3.26?code=apan-site
Marsh, D.E. 2015 “Reassembling the social life of a Medicine Man: Reassessing otherness, agency and authorship in the Wellcome archives,” Journal of Material Culture 20(2), pp. 211–245: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359183515578977
Book Chapters
K. Crowe, K. Fenlon, H. Frisch, D. Marsh, and V. Van Hyning 2021 “Inviting and Honoring User-contributed Content” The Lighting the Way Handbook: Case Studies, Guidelines, and Emergent Futures for Archival Discovery and Delivery, M. Matienzo and D. Handel, eds. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries, pp. 115–133: https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gg453cv6438/LTWHandbook.pdf
Marsh, D.E. 2021 “Power and Language” in A. Link, A. Shelton, and P. Spero (eds.) Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 189–197: https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496224330/
D. E. Marsh & R. Punzalan 2020 “Studying and Mobilizing the Impacts of Anthropological Data in Archives” in J. Crowder, M. Fortun, R. Besara, & L. Poirier (eds.) Anthropological Data in the Digital Age: New Possibilities—New Challenges. New York: Palgrave, pp. 163-183.
Marsh, D.E. 2019 “Toward Inclusive Museum Archives: User Research at the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives.” In Y. S. S. Chung, A. Leshchenko, B.B. Soares (eds.) Defining the Museum in the 21st Century: Evolving Multiculturalism in Museums in the United States. International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) Monograph Series, pp. 129–143. Link here.
Osorio Sunnucks, L., G. Isaac, and D. E. Marsh 2018 “Documents of Dissent” in P. Tortell, M. Young and M. Turin (eds.) The Memory Book Project, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Press: https://www.ubcpress.ca/memory.
Walcott,R., D. E. Marsh, A. Ellison “Introduction,” “Conservation and Curious Revolutionaries: The Peales of Philadelphia,” and “Conservation and the Peale-Sellers Family Collection” in R. Walcott (ed.) Art, Science, Invention: Conservation and the Peale-Sellers Family. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.
(In Press) D.E. Marsh "Power and Language" in P. Spero, A. Shelton, and A. Link (eds.) Translating Across Time and Space: Endangered Languages, Cultural Revitalization, and the Work of History, contracted with University of Nebraska Press.
Professional & Practitioner Publications
L. Curliss, I. Gates, D. Marsh, K. Satriano 2022 “Reparative Description, Indigenous Partners, and the SNAC Edit-a-thon.” Archival Outlook Mar/Apr 2022, pp. 4–5, 19: https://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?m=30305&i=742427&p=6&pre=1&ver=html5
Buchanan, R and D. Marsh “The Protocols for Native American Archival Materials and Description” Descriptive Notes, Apr 2021: https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2021/04/15/resources-from-saa-native-american-archives-section/
R. Buchanan, K. George, T. Gibson, E. Hung, D. Labinsky, D. Marsh, R. Menyuk, L. Norton-Wisla, S. Ortego-Chiolero, N. Sowry, and M. Tyndall 2021 “Toward Inclusive Reading Rooms: Decolonizing Practices and Recommendations for Welcoming Indigenous Researchers.” Archival Outlook Jan/Feb 2021, pp. 4–5, 14: https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=30305&i=690860&p=6
B. Carpenter, C. Haynes, D. Marsh, L. Posas, R. Punzalan, G. Rappaport, and M. Stoner. “Providing Culturally Responsive and Ethical Access to Indigenous Collections.” Archival Outlook May/June 2019, pp. 4–5: https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=588550&article_id=3383168&view=articleBrowser&ver=html5#{"issue_id":588550,"view":"articleBrowser","article_id":"3383168"}
D.E. Marsh and G. Saul 2018. “On Monuments and Racial Violence: Why museum and heritage professionals might not agree about ‘preserving’ Confederate heritage.” Anthropology News 59, Issue 4 (July/August 2018): 24-25: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/AN.912
M. Mason, D.E. Marsh, and A. Ellison 2017. “Curious Revolutionaries: The Peales Give Their Encore at Philosophical Hall’s Museum.” American Philosophical Society News 20(2017): 6-11.
D.E. Marsh 2017. “Researching Curious Revolutionaries at MdHS.” Maryland Historical Society News Summer (2017): 30-31: https://www.mdhs.org/underbelly/2018/11/08/researching-curious-revolutionaries-at-mdhs/
M. Mason and D.E. Marsh 2017. “Gathering Voices: Thomas Jefferson and Native America,” American Philosophical Society News 18(2017): 1-4.
L. Regouby and D. E. Marsh, 2016. “Curating Gathering Voices,” Anthropology News 57, Issue 5 (2016): 59–60: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1556-3502.2016.570524.x
Exhibition Catalogues
Marsh, D. and J. Wilson 2015 “Capture Canada Line Public Art Project: The city before the city. Capture Photography Festival April 2015, Vancouver: Mitchell Press, 24–27.
Exhibit/Book Reviews
D. E. Marsh 2021 “Review of Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist, by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt.” Journal of American Folklore Spring (2021), 361–363: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerfolk.134.533.0361
D. E. Marsh 2021 “Review of Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond, edited by Linda Barwick, Jennifer Green, and Petronella Vaarzon-Morel.” The American Archivist 84(1), pp. 199–202: https://meridian.allenpress.com/american-archivist/article/84/1/199/466985/Archival-Returns-Central-Australia-and-Beyond
D.E. Marsh, 2018 "Review of Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government by Tony Bennet, Fiona Cameron, Nélia Dias, Ben Dibley, Rodney Harrison, Ira Jacknis, and Conal McCarthy, eds." Museum Anthropology 42(1): 49–50.
D.E. Marsh and J. Frankenfield 2017 "History, Archives, and Endangered Languages: A Review of a Symposium at the American Philosophical Society." History of Anthropology Newsletter.
L. Regouby and D.E. Marsh 2016 "Curating Gathering Voices." Anthropology News 57: 59-60.
Marsh, D.E. 2015 "Review of c̓əsnaʔəm: the city before the city." Museum Anthropology 38(2), 170–178.
Marsh, D.E. 2014 "Review of Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum." Museum Anthropology 37(2), 172–174.
Marsh, D.E. 2013 "Review of Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories: Essays in Honour of Susan M. Pearce by Sandra H. Dudley, Amy J. Barnes, Jennifer Binnie, Julia Petrov, and Jennifer Walklate, eds." Museum Anthropology 36(2), 161–163.
Research Exhibitions
2018–2020
Co-Curator with Joshua A. Bell and Kirsten van der Veen. Documenting Diversity: How Anthropologists Record Culture
Feb 2020–Aug 2020, Smithsonian Institution Libraries and Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, 10th and Constitution Ave., NW, 20560.
2016–2017
Lead Curator, Curious Revolutionaries: The Peales of Philadelphia
Apr 2017–Dec 2017, American Philosophical Society Museum, 104 South Fifth Street Philadelphia, PA.
2015–2016
Curator, Gathering Voices: Thomas Jefferson and Native America
Apr 2016–Dec 2016, American Philosophical Society Museum, 104 South Fifth Street Philadelphia, PA.
2010
Co-Curator, Sapmi: Same, Same, But Different
Feb 2010–2013, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (CMAA), Downing St., Cambridge UK.
2011
Project Coordinator, Faces and Voices of the Inuit Art Market
May–Sept 2011, Audain Gallery, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver BC.
Editorial
2015–2017
Contributing Editor, Council for Museum Anthropology Section for Anthropology News.
Other Publications
Visitor Studies Reports
A Study of Visitor Engagement at the FossiLab. Report submitted to Office of Exhibits, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, April 2013.
Visitor Population and Perception at a Re-Banded Museum of Anthropology. Report submitted to the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, May 2012.
Audiences for the Museum of Vancouver’s ‘Visible City’ Neon Vancouver App. Report submitted to the Museum of Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, April 2012.
Visitors in the Glimpses of Medical History Gallery: 30 Years Later (1980-2010). Report submitted to the Science Museum, London, UK, September 2010.
Public Outreach
Public Talks
Researching Curious Revolutionaries. Presented at the Maryland Historical Society, 201 W. Monument Street, Baltimore, MD, September 19, 2017.
Opening Remarks, Public Exhibition Opening of Curious Revolutionaries: The Peales of Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society’s Philosophical Hall, Philadelphia, PA, April 7, 2017.
Mastodon Malarky: Then and Now, Science on Tap, National Mechanics, Philadelphia, PA, April 24, 2017.
Talk and Tour for Moorestown Friends High School Seniors, American Philosophical Society’s Philosophical Hall, Philadelphia, PA, March 17, 2017.
Gathering Voices and Lewis and Clark, Talk and Tour for the Lewis and Clark Heritage Trail Foundation, American Philosophical Society’s Philosophical Hall, Philadelphia, PA, December 3, 2016.
Curating Jefferson and Gathering Voices. Presented at the Right Angle Club of Philadelphia, 1735 Market Street, 52nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA. October 28, 2016.
Discussant, Film Screening of The Silent Enemy with Brian Carpenter. Silent Cinema, American Philosophical Society’s Franklin Hall, Philadelphia, PA, October 19, 2016.
Film/Press Coverage
Rozmanith, Elizabeth “Dr. Diana Marsh Interview--Bringing New Voices to Museums” Picture this Post, August 30, 2021: https://www.picturethispost.com/dr-diana-marsh-interview/
Paskulin, Lindsey 2021. “Feature: Diana Marsh” UBC Department of Anthropology News, April 15, 2021: https://anth.ubc.ca/news/18385/
Worsham, Natalie 2021. “Documenting Digital Knowledge Sharing in Indigenous Communities” Archival History News: https://archivalhistory.news/2021/02/22/ichora-2020-day-4-diana-marsh-documenting-digital-knowledge-sharing-in-indigenous-communities/
Sexton, Courtney. 2020. “Transcribe Field Notes Penned by Ann Dunham, a Pioneering Anthropologist and Barack Obama’s Mother,” Smithsonian Magazine, online at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/help-transcribe-field-notes-penned-ann-dunham-pioneering-anthropologist-barack-obama-mother-180975310/
Instagram Takeover fossil hall #thenandnow, National Museum of Natural History Instagram account, 12 posts over 7 days, 20,241likes, e.g. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzZKFi1nX8M/
Before Hollywood: Philadelphia and the Birth of Movies. Andrew Ferrett. Philadelphia: The Great Experiment, 2017.
Salisbury, S. 2016. “Jefferson’s complex legacy on native languages,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, online here.
Intrabartola, L 2016. Visual Arts Alumna Curates and Studies Museum Exhibits, Rutgers Today, online here.
Intrabartola, L 2016. Picturing the Past: Visual Arts Alumna Curates and Studies Museum Exhibits, Mason Gross Magazine, p. 13, online here.