Bethany G. Anderson is the Natural and Applied Sciences Archivist and Assistant Professor in the University Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In her research, she draws on anthropology, history of science, archival studies, and feminist theory to explore scientific archives, women and gender in STEM, computational archival science, and oral history. She also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Comma, the journal of the International Council on Archives, and as Co-Editor for the Archival Futures Series, which is co-published by the Society of American Archivists and the American Library Association. Anderson holds a bachelor of arts in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, a master of arts in Near Eastern Art and Archaeology from the University of Chicago, and a master of science in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

Anderson, Bethany G., Christopher J. Prom, and Jenny L. Davis, 2021-2023. “Doris Duke Native American Oral History Revitalization Project,” funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. $196,000.

Anderson, Bethany G. and Kristen Allen Wilson, 2020-2021. “History in the Making: A Women in the Sciences Lecture Series and Preservation Project,” funded by the University of Illinois Library Innovation Fund. $10,000.

Anderson, Bethany G., Christopher J. Prom, Kevin Hamilton, and Mark Sammons, 2017-2018. “The Cybernetics Thought Collective: A History of Science and Technology Portal Project,” funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Foundations grant program. $49,973.

Anderson, Bethany G., 2017-2018. “From Margin to Center: Reframing the History of Women in Computing and Information Technology through Oral Histories,” funded by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) History Committee. $4,000.