Category Archives: Research

Mara Thacker and “Turn the Page!” Team Awarded Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity Seed Grant

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Mara Thacker, South Asian Studies & Global Popular Culture Librarian, is part of a team that has been awarded a $15,000 seed grant from the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) at Washington University in Saint Louis.

The mission of CRE2 is to study how race and ethnicity are integral to the most complex and challenging issues of our time. The seed grant program aims to provide assistance in the development of research that has the potential to significantly enhance scientific and cultural methodologies.

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Summer 2020 Presentations by Library Faculty and Academic Professionals

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This past summer, our Library faculty, and academic professionals presented on a wide variety of topics. As always, we congratulate our researchers on their important contributions to the University of Illinois, the Library and Information Science department and other disciplines. A selected bibliography of these presentations is provided below. Continue reading →

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Susanne Belovari Awarded Sophie Coe Prize

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Susanne Belovari, Assistant Professor and Archivist for Faculty Papers at the University Library, has been awarded the Sophie Coe Prize by the Oxford Food & Cookery Symposium for her article The Viennese Cuisine before Hitler–‘One Cuisine in the Use of Two Nations’. The Oxford Food Symposium is the oldest and most respected food symposium globally and awards the annual Sophie Coe Prize for food history, the longest-running and most generous prize for food history (in English).
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Hinchliffe and Keralis receive Humanities Research Institute Research Cluster Grants

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Two University of Illinois Library colleagues have received separate HRI Research Cluster Grants. Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Professor and Coordinator for Information Literacy Services, was awarded a $2,500 grant for her proposal “AI & Society: Privacy, Ethics and (Dis)Information.” Dr. Spencer Keralis, Assistant Professor and Digital Humanities Librarian, also received $2,500 for their proposal “Critical Practice in Text Data Mining.” Continue reading →

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