Emeriti Faculty

Abdul Alkalimat (McWorter)

Professor Emeritus

Research focus: Digital inequality, community informatics, and African American intellectual history.

Alistair Black

Professor Emeritus

Research focus: History of public libraries, corporate libraries, the library profession, the information society, and pre-computer information management.

Chip Bruce

Professor Emeritus

Research focus: Community informatics; environments to support inquiry-based learning; collaboration in knowledge making; new literacy practices.

Pauline Cochrane

Professor Emerita

Susan G. Davis

Professor Emerita

Research focus: The role and significance of vernacular culture; ethnography of commercial culture; the politics of culture and cultural research.

Leigh Estabrook

Dean Emerita

Caroline Haythornthwaite

Professor Emerita

Research focus: Interaction via computer media and how it supports and affects work, learning, and social interaction; how information is exchanged, knowledge is co-constructed, collaboration happens, and community forms in and in conjunction with online contexts.

Betsy Hearne

Professor Emerita

Research focus: The heart of my work is stories, what they tell us and how they are told. Stories are central to library and information science, because stories literally store us, serving as storage for an infinite variety of formal and informal knowledge.

Christine Jenkins

Associate Professor Emerita

Research focus: History of children's literature; history of youth services librarianship as women's history; historical and contemporary censorship and intellectual freedom; young adult literature; representations of minority-status groups in children's and young adult literature; reading engagement; reader-response research; reader-text interaction.

Donald Krummel

Professor Emeritus

Research focus: General and music bibliography; library history.

Carole Palmer

Professor Emeritus

Research focus: Data curation and digital research collections.

Ann Peterson-Kemp

Associate Professor Emerita

Research focus: Community informatics; community inquiry.

W. Boyd Rayward

Professor Emeritus

Research focus: Paul Otlet’s ideas in relation to the Internet, the World Wide Web, and information science; utopian schemes of knowledge organization including H.G. Wells’s idea of a world brain; the implications of digitization and networking for libraries and museums.

Dan Schiller

Professor Emeritus

Research focus: Telecommunications history; information policy; cultural production and the political economy of capitalism.

Linda C. Smith

Professor Emerita, Interim Executive Associate Dean

PhD, Information Transfer, Syracuse University

Research focus: Education for library and information science, with particular attention to online pedagogy; history of information science; impact of new technologies on reference and information services.

Sever Tipei

Center Affiliate

D.M.A. (composition), University of Michigan

Research focus: Musical informatics; computer-assisted (algorithmic) composition; digital sound synthesis; music composition and sound design on high-performance computers.

Terry L. Weech

Associate Professor Emeritus

Research focus: International librarianship; library and information science education; collection development; management and assessment of library services; government information resources; economics of information; intellectual freedom issues; public librarianship.