Emeriti Faculty

Abdul Alkalimat (McWorter)

Professor Emeritus

PhD, Sociology, University of Chicago

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

Alistair Black

Professor Emeritus

PhD, The Public Library as an Agency for Social Stability, 1850-1919, London Metropolitan University

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.

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

PhD, Library and Information Studies, Wisconsin-Madison

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.

Kathryn La Barre

Associate Professor Emerita

PhD, Information Science, Indiana University

Research focus: Interrogating historical and contemporary naming practices and power dynamics in cultural heritage collections of films, comics and zines. Methods: Community-based participatory research and oral history.

Carole Palmer

Professor Emeritus

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois

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

PhD, Communication, Pennsylvania

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

Linda C. Smith

Professor Emerita

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.

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.

Kate Williams

Associate Professor Emerita

PhD, Information, University of Michigan

Research focus: Community informatics; technology use in local communities and by ordinary people; public libraries past, present, and future; social capital as a crucial resource in the information revolution.