At present, I manage 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. As an anthropologist and archivist, I do research with cultural heritage institutions and with communities, with the goal of connecting communities to records and resources. 

After visiting Kazakhstan in 2000, I studied Russian and Kazakh in preparation for fieldwork in Mongolia (2009) and Kazakhstan (2010), followed by several years of working in collections-based institutions in Kazakhstan. 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 and by future creators. I work with the NAA/HSFA to preserve and provide access to field research materials and moving image collections, and work with the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records (CoPAR) on archiving standards and education. 

Article

• Evenhaugen, Anne and Emmelhainz, Celia. 2024. "Guest Editorial: Embedded Libraries and Archives in Museums." International Journal of Librarianship, 9, (2) 1–3. https://doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2024.vol9.2.381. 2024
• Lea, Mary Margaret and Emmelhainz, Celia. 2024. "Organizers of Museum History: Honoring the Labor of Librarians and Archivists in the Bureau of American Ethnology." International Journal of Librarianship, 9, (2) 87–102. https://doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2024.vol9.2.365. 2024
• Lea, Mary Margaret and Emmelhainz, Celia. 2024. "Organizers of Museum History: Honoring the Labor of Librarians and Archivists in the Bureau of American Ethnology." International Journal of Librarianship, 9, (2) 87–102. https://doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2024.vol9.2.365. 2024
• Emmelhainz, Celia and Dorner, Jennifer. 2022. "Listening to historians: Using a listening tour to improve library support for foreign language researchers." College & Research Libraries News, 83, (8). https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.83.8.341. 2022
• Glusker, Ann, Emmelhainz, Celia, Estrada, Natalia, and Dyess, Bonita. 2022. "Viewed as Equals: The Impacts of Library Organizational Cultures and Management on Library Staff Morale." Journal of Library Administration, 62, (2) 153–189. https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2022.2026119. 2022
• Singh, Monica and Emmelhainz, Celia. 2019. "Listening to Unaffiliated Users of the Academic Library." SAGE Open, 9, (2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019858440. 2019
• Sturma, Madeleine and Emmelhainz, Celia. 2019. "Reading between the Lines: Using Citations to Understand Anthropologists' Reading Patterns." Qualitative & Quantitative Methods in Libraries, 8, (3) 389–397. 2019
• Werner, Cynthia Ann, Emmelhainz, Celia, and Barcus, Holly. 2017. "Privileged Exclusion in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Ethnic Return Migration, Citizenship, and the Politics of (Not) Belonging." Europe-Asia Studies, 69, (10) 1557–1583. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2017.1401042. 2017
• Emmelhainz, Celia. 2017. "Supporting the expatriate social scientist: Faculty research and information access in post-Soviet Kazakhstan." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 49, (1) 69–81. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000615591651. 2017
• Emmelhainz, Celia. 2014. "Controlled Vocabulary Standards for Anthropological Datasets." International Journal of Digital Curation, 9, (1) 185–192. https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v9i1.290. 2014

Blog Posting

• Emmelhainz, Celia. 2016. "Selling Dreams of the Good Life in Kazakhstan." Sapiens Oct 6, 2016. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/multilevel-marketing-kazakhstan/. 2016

Chapter

• Dohe, Kate, Emmelhainz, Celia, Seale, Maura, and Pappas, Erin. 2022. "The Saboteur in the Academic Library." In Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces. Acadia, Spencer, editor. 149–166. New York: Routledge. (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003159155), https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003159155-7. 2022
• Emmelhainz, Celia. 2020. "Educating the Central Asian Librarian: Considering the International MLIS in Kazakhstan." In Internationalization of Library and Information Science Education in the Asia-Pacific Region. Alenzuela, Reysa and Kim, Heesop, editors. 1–32. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. (https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2273-8), https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2273-8.ch001. 2020