Paul Conway

Paul Conway is associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. He teaches courses on digitization, preservation, archives, and the ethics of new technologies. His research encompasses the digitization of cultural heritage resources, particularly photographic archives, the use of digitized resources by experts in a variety of humanities contexts, and the measurement of image and text quality in large-scale digitization programs. He is a pioneer in charting the challenges and opportunities that digital information technologies present to preservation and archival science. He has extensive administrative experience in the cultural heritage sector and has made major contributions over the past 30 years to the literature on archival users and use, preservation management, and digital imaging technologies. He has held positions at the National Archives and Records Administration (1977-87; 1989-92), the Society of American Archivists (1988-89), Yale University (1992-2001), and Duke University (2001-06). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. In 2011, he was awarded the Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize for his use of social media to teach undergraduate writing on ethics and technology. In 2005, he received the American Library Association's Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award for his contributions to the preservation field. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists.

Areas of Interest

• Large-scale digitization of books and serials
• Digital humanities pedagogy and research
• Information quality
• Representation of photographs in digital form
• Transformation is historical sound recordings