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Christine J. Pawley <cpawley@wisc.edu> University of Wisconsin |
| Address: | cpawley@wisc.edu Madison, Wisconsin 53706 United States |
| Primary Phone: | 608 263 2945 |
| Secondary Phone: | 608 263 2900 |
| Fax Number: | 608 263 4849 |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Info |
| Interests: | American History / Studies Ethnic History / Studies Library and Information Science Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
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Bio: Ph.D. Library and Information Studies (Minor: Public Administration and Sociology), University of Wisconsin-Madison (1996) Advisor: Professor Wayne A. Wiegand Dissertation: Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Osage, Iowa, 1870 to 1900 M.A. Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1991) M.Sc. Educational Research, University of Surrey, UK (1975) Research Methods, Statistics, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology (specialized in Sociology) P.G.C.E. Postgraduate Certificate in Education, University of York, UK (1969)History and Social Science B.A. (Hons.) Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Oxford University, UK (1968) Books and book chapters “Blood and Thunder on the Bookmobile: American Public Libraries and the Construction of 'the Reader,'” in Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States edited by Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter (forthcoming, University of Massachusetts Press, 2007) “A 'Bouncing Babe,' a 'Little Bastard:' Women, Print and the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950-1952,” in Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand, (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006) “Reading Apostles of Culture: The Politics and Historiography of Library History,'” Foreword to reprint of Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920 by Dee Garrison (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003) Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Late Nineteenth-Century Osage, Iowa (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001). Winner of the 2002 Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award from the State Historical Society of Iowa) “Better Than Billiards: Reading and the Public Library in Osage, Iowa, 1890-1895.” Chapter in Print Culture in a Diverse America, edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Winner of the 1999 Carey McWilliams Award for Cultural Diversity). Translated into Japanese, this chapter also appears in New Trends in Library Research: Intellectual Freedom, History and the United States, edited by Yoshitaka Kawasaki (Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto University Library and Information Study Group, 2001) Recent refereed journal articles “Gorman’s Gauntlet: Gender and ‘Crying Wolf.’” (Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 46 (4) 2005: 304-312) “Retrieving Readers: Library Experiences.” (Introduction and guest editor for special issue of The Library Quarterly, forthcoming, 2006.) “Unequal Legacies: Race and Multiculturalism in the LIS Curriculum.” (The Library Quarterly, forthcoming, April 2006.) “History in the Library and Information Science Curriculum: Outline of a Debate.” (Libraries and Culture, 40 (3) 2005: 223-238) “Information Literacy: A Contradictory Coupling,” (The Library Quarterly, 73 (4) 2003: 422-452) “Historical Research as Practice and Relationship: The Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project" (joint author with James Elmborg, Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 44 (3) 2003: 236-246) “Seeking 'Significance': Actual Readers, Specific Reading Communities,” (Book History 5, 2002: 143-160) “Reading versus the Red Bull: Cultural Constructions of Democracy and the Public Library in Cold War Wisconsin,” (American Studies, 42 (3) 2001: 87-103). This article also appears in Libraries as Agencies of Culture, edited by Thomas Augst and Wayne Wiegand (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). |
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