Assistant Professor at Drexel University’s College of Computing and Informatics, Alex H. Poole received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, where he studied with Helen R. Tibbo and Christopher A. (Cal) Lee. His research foci include digital curation, digital humanities, archives and records management, and diversity, inclusivity, and equity.

Poole received the 2019 Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research from the American Library Association for “’Be Damned Pushy at Times’: The Committee on the Status for Women and Feminism in the Archival Profession, 1972-1998” (American Archivist). He also received the 2018 Dr. Bob Williams History Fund Best Paper Award from the Association for Information Science and Technology for “Harold T. Pinkett and the Lonely Crusade of African American Archivists in the Twentieth Century” (American Archivist) and in 2017 for “’Could my dark hands break through the dark shadow?’” Gender, Jim Crow, and Librarianship during the Long Freedom Struggle, 1935-1955” (Library Quarterly). He earned the 2018 Arline Custer Memorial Article Award from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference for “Pinkett’s Charges: Recruiting, Retaining, and Mentoring Archivists of Color” (American Archivist) and the 2013 Theodore Calvin Pease Award from the Society of American Archivists for “The Strange Career of Jim Crow Archives: Race, Space, and History in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South” (American Archivist).

Poole’s recent articles include:

Poole teaches courses in Information Science at Drexel.

From 2010 to 2013, Poole worked on the Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded DigCCurr II (PIs: Helen R. Tibbo and Christopher A. Lee).