Endowed Professorship in the History of Libraries & Information Professions (University of Illinois)
With this endowed professorship, the iSchool at the University of Illinois seeks to add to its growing strengths in information history and book history, and to augment its curricular offerings in its joint MSLIS/MA in History.
Applications are welcome from scholars of information history who focus on sites and agents of knowledge collection, classification, and exchange. We understand such sites to include libraries, archives, museums, laboratories, herbaria, databases, and the like. By the “information professions,” we mean not only librarians and archivists, but also agents operating outside institutional bodies, such as amanuenses, spies, census-takers, code-breakers, shamans, and others. Related information practices of interest may include histories of observation, administration, bureaucracy, cameral science, documentation, paperwork, measurement, and quantification. Any time period or geographical region. Global and/or comparative perspectives especially appreciated.
Ph.D. or equivalent required. For first consideration, applications should be received by January 31st, 2020.