Abby Smith Rumsey

Abby Smith Rumsey is an intellectual and cultural historian and board chair of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Her focus is the impact of information technologies on perceptions of history, time, and identity, the nature of evidence, and the changing roles of libraries and archives. Her books include “Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties With History” (2023) and “When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future” (2016).