Rosemary Grennan
Staff Member Collection Development
- E-mail: rosemary.grennan@iisg.nl
- Department: Collection Development
Rosemary Grennan has worked in the area of archiving social and labour movements for over 10 years and has an academic background in Social Anthropology and Material and Visual Culture. In November 2025, she joined the IISH as a Collection Developer for International Collections.
In 2015, she started working at MayDay Rooms, an archive dedicated to conserving and activating histories of social and labour movements from the 1960s onward. Through this work, she developed collaborative archiving methods and strategies for the documentation, collection, exhibition, and dissemination of historical material that build links between contemporary movements and the histories of past struggles. She has established major digital archiving projects like the Leftovers digital repository and Activist Media Project.
She completed her PhD in Material and Visual Culture with a regional focus on South Asia from University College London (UCL) in 2025. In 2024, she was a Fellow at the Sloane Lab at UCL's Information Studies Department with the project Collections of Collections: Building Common Ownership and Shared Archival Practices. She has contributed to publications such as Archiving Activism in a Digital Age (2024) and has co-edited the MayDay Rooms book series since 2021, including Camera Forward, Agit Prop Notes, and For Peace!
