Sutherland is the child of two Caribbean immigrants and grew up in Pennsylvania. She is a queer Black woman and first-generation college graduate.[1]
Her published books include Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife, published by the
University of California Press in October 2023.[3]
Selected academic publications
Cifor, M., Garcia, P., Cowan, T.L., Rault, J., Sutherland, T., Chan, A., Rode, J., Hoffmann, A.L., Salehi, N., Nakamura, L. (2019). Feminist Data Manifest-No. Retrieved from:
https://www.manifestno.com/ Retrieved on: 7 June 2024.
Sutherland, Tonia. “Archival Amnesty: In Search of Black American Transitional and Restorative Justice,”in “Critical Archival Studies,” eds. Michelle Caswell, Ricardo Punzalan, and T-Kay Sangwand. Special issue, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 1, no. 2 (2017). DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v1i2.42
Espinal, I., Sutherland, T., & Roh, C. (2018). “A Holistic Approach for Inclusive Librarianship: Decentering Whiteness in Our Profession.” Library Trends 67 (1), 147–162. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2018.0030
Sutherland, Tonia. "Making a Killing: On Race, Ritual, and (Re)Membering in Digital Culture" Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture 46, no. 1 (2017), 32–40. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2017-0025