Melissa Adler

Assistant Professor of Information & Media Studies
Western University, Canada

Melissa Adler is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Her book, Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge (Fordham University Press, April 2017), is a study of the history of sexuality through the lens of Library of Congress classifications and categories. Her current project, Informing Empire: Knowledge Organization in Thomas Jefferson's Information Age, examines the convergence of racialization, capital, state power, and information in the 18th and 19th centuries. She also has a Social Science and Humanities Research Council funded project, which investigates a variety of models for creative and reparative knowledge organization practices by playing with methods that reside at the intersections of library and archives work, storytelling, poetry, and craft.

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Presentation(s):

• From Censorship to Digitization: Bringing Sensitive Collections to Light

  Saturday, June 25, 2022
  9:00am – 10:00am