Evan Allgood
Doctoral Student
PhD, Information Sciences, Illinois (in progress)
MS, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
BA, Computer Science, Carleton College
BA, English, Carleton College
Pronouns: they/he
Research focus
My research primarily focuses on transgender historiographic practices, the circulation and use of transgender historical information, the description and representation of queer lives in archives, and digital networks of care.
Honors and Awards
- Anne M. Boyd/Beta Phi Mu Award, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2025
Advisor
Publications & Papers
For more published works, view Evan Allgood's Google Scholar or ORCiD.
Allgood, E. M., & Wagner, T. L. (2025). What is lost in “restoring truth and sanity:” queer approaches to absence, silence, and erasure in archival description. The Political Librarian, 8(2). https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9143/.
Wagner, T. L., & Allgood, E. M. (2025). “There’s a kind of comfort in identifying, but visibility is a double-edged sword”: Framing LGBTQIA+ finding aid work within queer theory. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 62(1), 718–729. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.1291.
Wagner, T. L., Allgood, E. M., & Caballero, M. (2025). “The finding aid is the first thing that people see, we don’t want to put anyone off viewing the collection”: How practitioners navigate queerness in finding aids. Archival Science, 25(4), 43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-025-09513-w.
Presentations
Allgood, E. M. (2026, March 28). ‘All These Old Traumas and Dramas’: Serendipitous Archival Encounters in Transgender Literature. Big Ten Trans Studies Initiative Research Symposium, Urbana, IL, United States.
Wagner, T. L., Allgood, E. M. (2026, March 12). ‘That ‘Little S’ State and Their Institutions Might Target People’: Navigating Queerness and Regionality in LGBTQIA+ Finding Aids. Queer Bibliography 2026, Athens, GA, United States.
Wagner, T. L., Allgood, E. M. (2025, November 16). ‘There’s a Kind of Comfort in Identifying, But Visibility Is a Double-Edged Sword’: Framing LGBTQIA+ Finding Aid Creation Through Queer Theoretical Paradigms. Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Washington, DC, United States.
Allgood, E. M. (2025, November 15). Hide and Seek: Helping Patrons Uncover (Intentionally) Hidden Archival Materials. Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Forging Ahead: Librarianship and Information Services in Times of Technological, Cultural, and Political Change Pre-Conference Symposium, Washington, DC, United States.
Wilfley, M., Allgood, E. M. (2025, November 14). Endangered Knowledge and Ethical Memory: Transgender Archival Resistance and the Future of Agentic Browsers. Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Investigating Interdisciplinary Approaches to Responsible and Ethical AI: Challenges and Opportunities Pre-Conference Symposium, Washington, DC, United States.
Wagner, T. L., Allgood, E. M. (2025, October 7). ‘I See Inclusive Description as the Practice That Slowly, Hopefully, Edges Out the Need for Reparative Description’: Exploring How Archival Practitioners Describe Queerness Within and Through Finding Aids. Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, United States.
Allgood, E. M. (2025, April 23). Disciplinary Differences: Generative AI in the Research and Publication Process. Niche Academy Webinar.
Allgood, E. M. (2025, April 4). Generating Transparency: LIS Journals and Developing Policy on the Use of Generative AI. 2025 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference.