[image1-right]GSLIS affiliated faculty member Safiya U. Noble (MS ’09, PhD ’12) has been honored with the 2014 Faculty Scholar Award by the University of Illinois Women’s Resources Center (WRC). This award recognizes scholarship that contributes to the advancement of feminism, promotes justice and equity, and supports anti-oppression education.
Noble was honored for her work to reveal the role of technology as a reflection and reinforcement of cultural norms and value systems. “Her community work and scholarship on the representations of people of color—and oppression, power, and privilege more broadly—contribute to critical knowledge on the production of transnational black labor and contemporary barriers in the way of racial and social justice,” said Rachel Storm, WRC assistant director, who introduced Noble at the Women’s Awards Celebration on May 1.
Noble is an assistant professor of media and cinema studies and faculty affiliate to GSLIS, the Institute for Communications Research, and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on digital media platform design and social informatics, representation of people of color and women in commercial search and social media systems, and information policy. Her work also includes STEM barriers for African American women and girls.