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Emmelhainz, Celia

Supervisory Anthropologist

Celia Emmelhainz manages the National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. She has done research in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and the United States. Her research includes projects on migration, missionaries, and multilevel marketing; on human names and naming; on labor in cultural heritage work; and on securing and sharing field research materials. She has led workshops on research and data archiving in Poland, Greece, Kazakhstan, and the United States.

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  • Celia manages the National Anthropological Archives (NAA) and Human Studies Film Archives (HSFA) within the department of anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Since 2013, I have engaged with questions of how archivists, librarians, and scholars can best preserve and share field research materials for use by communities, researchers, and creators.

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