Kathy Carbone earned her Ph.D. in Information Studies, with a focus in Archival Studies, from UCLA in May of 2017. She is currently the institute archivist, performing arts librarian, and a faculty member in the Herb Alpert School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) where she teaches courses in archives and art-making, and music research and writing methods. Her research interests include contemporary art productions with archives; affect, movement, and agency in regard to records; social justice practices in the arts and archives; and, archival ethnography and pedagogy. She holds an MLIS from Kent State University, an MA in Dance and Music and a BFA in Dance from Ohio University.