PhD Fellowships in Information History at the University of Illinois

Bonnie Mak
10/29/2012 - 2:15pm
  1. Academia
  2. Arts & Humanities
  3. History
  4. Culture
  5. Technology
  1. culture
  2. history
  3. information
  4. Policy
  5. technology
501 E. Daniel Street
Champaign, IL 61820
United States
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December 15, 2012 - 1:00am
lis-apply@illinois.edu
http://www.lis.illinois.edu
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The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois is recruiting outstanding doctoral students in the History of Information. Admitted candidates will receive up to 4 years of funding, including tuition waivers, stipends, and benefits. Topics of investigation might include:

  •  Production & circulation of knowledge
  •  Systems of information provision
  •  Communications networks, including the postal service, the telegraph, telephone & Internet
  •  Political economy of information
  •  Information infrastructures, including libraries, archives, museums
  •  Manuscript, print, digital cultures, including histories of documents, books & e-books, reading & readers
  •  The information society
  •  Library & information professions/occupations
  •  Information and communication technologies/policies/systems
  •  Information management/processing

Recent projects by faculty have explored the development of systems of telecommunication in the 19th and 20th centuries, early 20th century staff magazines in Britain, and the cultural implications of digitizing medieval manuscripts. Current dissertation topics include the provision of information in the Depression-era US, the information practices of the US Department of Agriculture, amateur publishing and periodicals for youth in the 19th century, the organization of commercial information in early-20th-century America, and cultures of reading in Kenya.

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science supports a broad range of interdisciplinary research in areas such as youth services, user services and outreach, information history and policy, social and community informatics, data curation, socio-technical data analytics and information organization.

For information about applying to the PhD program, please visit this page or contact lis-apply@illinois.edu. Students from historically and statistically underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply.

The deadline for receipt of applications is December 15, 2012.