Jana M. Perkins
Doctoral Student
PhD, Information Sciences, Illinois (in progress)
MS, Information Management, Illinois (in progress)
MA, English, McGill University
Research focus
Honors and Awards
Selected Awards and Distinctions (Total awarded to-date: over $131,500 USD)
- Graduate Scholarship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2023
- Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2020–present
- Graduate Bursary, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, (Declined) 2020
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, SSHRC, McGill University, 2019
- Arthur B. McDonald Prize for Academic Excellence, Queen’s University, (Declined) 2018
- R. A. Wilson Memorial Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan, 2017
Advisors
Publications & Papers
Recent Publications, Invited Talks, and Conference Proceedings
Hickman, Miranda and Perkins, Jana M. (Under contract.) Deep literacy, digital time. Routledge.
Brighton, Jack, Perkins, Jana M., and Unruh, Sarah. (2022). More investing, less arresting: A public health model for reducing gun violence in Detroit. Community Data Clinic.
Hickman, Miranda, and Perkins, Jana M. (2021). Deepening attention, changing minds. ACLA Annual Meeting.
Perkins, Jana M. (2021). Sentiment analysis: What is it, and how can it be used? School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.