[Students-l] Fwd: [Asis-l] Recruiting PhD Candidates interested in Information History at the University of Illinois

[M.J. Menou]

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Subject: 	[Asis-l] Recruiting PhD Candidates interested in Information
History at the University of Illinois
Date: 	Thu, 1 Nov 2012 15:43:21 +0000
From: 	Senseney, Megan Finn <mfsense2 at illinois.edu>
To: 	asis-l at asis.org <asis-l at asis.org>



The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the
University of Illinois is actively recruiting outstanding doctoral
students with research interests 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, social and community informatics, data
curation, socio-technical data analytics and information organization.
Additional information about research at GSLIS is available at
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/.


For specific information about the GSLIS PhD program, please visit
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/admissions or contact lis-apply at illinois.edu
<mailto:lis-apply at illinois.edu>. Students from historically and
statistically underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply.

Deadline for PhD applications is December 15, 2012.


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Megan Finn Senseney
Project Coordinator, Research Services
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: (217) 244-5574
Email: mfsense2 at illinois.edu
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/
<http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/research/services/>




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