Daena J Carrillo, DDes

Biography

Daena Jean Carrillo is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in the School of Information Studies at Louisiana State University. She received her doctorate in Cultural Preservation/Archival Studies from Louisiana State University. Dr. Carrillo is expanding on her research further with a second doctorate, a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences. She previously earned a MLIS and CARST at Louisiana State University. Before joining LSU, Dr. Carrillo previously held positions as a Project Archivist with the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Museum and the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History at The Breman Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Her research interests include archival approach and response to the preservation of community archives, ecological knowledge, and ecosystem services.

 

Research Areas

Community Archives; Participatory Archives; Preservation Management; Climate Change; Climate Resiliency; Ecological Knowledge; Ecosystem Services.

 

Selected Presentations

Benoit, Trepanier, Fisher, Waddell, Hollis and Carrillo. Preparing and Responding to the Archival Impacts of Climate Change. Society of Southwest Archivists Annual Meeting, Online, April 2024.

Timbery, Narissa, Carrillo and Mosako. Sustainability in a Warming World. Archival Education & Research Institute (AERI), Baton Rouge, LA, June 2023.

Carrillo, Daena, Safeguarding Ecological Knowledge from the Effects of Climate Change: An Archival Approach. State of the Coast, New Orleans, LA, June 2023.

 

Selected Grants & Funded Projects

Gustaf W. McIlhenny Foundation Grant, 2022

 

Awards & Honors

U.S. Geological Survey Climate Adaptation Scientists of Tomorrow, 2023