She is Founding Director of the Archives & Digital Media Lab; and a Research Affiliate at the American University of Beirut’s School of Architecture & Design. Dr. Ghaddar serves as Chair of the Middle East Librarians Association’s Archives & Records Management Training & Advocacy Group; a member of the Association of Canadian Archivists’ Indigenous Matters Committee; co-convenor of Documentary Nakba: A Reading Group for Archival Liberation in & beyond Palestine; and co-host of Archives & Heritage in Palestine.

Before joining UvA, Dr. Ghaddar was Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Science at Dalhousie, where she currently serves as an Adjunct of the Faculty of Graduate Studies. She also completed a Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the Government of Canada’s Social Sciences & Humanities Council working with Raymond Frogner at the National Center for Truth & Reconciliation and Dr. Greg Bak at the History Department at the University of Manitoba.

Dr.  Ghaddar has led and worked on community-grounded and collaborative archival initiatives and information projects in sites around the world, including at the American University of Beirut’s Jafet Library archiving the personal papers of the Arab intellectual who coined the term “Nakba”, Dr. Constantine Zurayk; and at the Centre of Memory in Johannesburg preserving the papers of the antiapartheid hero, Nelson Mandela. Currently, she is co-PI with Dr. Rami Zuraykand Dr. Hanine Shehadeh of the project, Fight Erasure: Digitizing Gaza’s Genocide and the War on Lebanon. She also co-leads the Pedagogy for Liberation project and the Displaced Archives project at the Archives & Digital Media Lab.  

Dr. Ghaddar holds a PhD and Master of Information from the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto; and a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Anthropology and Minor in Linguistics, McMaster University.