Kate Williams | katewill .at. illinois .dot. edu short CV
CURRENTLY
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Research Investigator, University of Michigan School of Information.Ongoing research projects include:
Research focuses on the relationship between social networks, social capital, and the use of information and communications technology, particularly ICT use in low-income communities and public computing.
- eChicago: Studying technology access, use and support in a set of ethnic communities of Chicago
- Constructing and analyzing a community informatics dataset from records of the Technology Opportunities Program of the Department of Commerce, which funded 606 community technology projects across the United States
- Analyzing social networks and the use of information and communications technology by urban Latinos, with Salvador Rivas, University of Wisconsin
- Writing policy-impact and other follow-on studies using dissertation data
EDUCATION
PhD, University of Michigan School of Information.
MBA, University of Chicago.Dissertation: "Social networks, social capital, and the use of information and communications technology in socially excluded communities: a study of community groups in Manchester, England." abstract full text
Advisor: Professor Joan C. Durrance
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
Kate Williams, "Book review: Networked neighbourhoods: the connected community in context (Patrick Purcell, editor)" in Information, Communication, and Society, 2010. text
Kate Williams and Joan C. Durrance, "Community Informatics," in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Marcia Bates and Mary Miles Maack, editors, 2009. text
Kate Williams and Joan C. Durrance, "Social Networks and Social Capital: Rethinking Theory in Community Informatics," in Journal of Community Informatics, 2008. text
Kate Williams and Abdul Alkalimat, "Cyberpower," in Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution, Douglas Schuler, editor. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2008. text
Kate Williams, "Community informatics memory as archive: Assembling and using the records of the Technology Opportunities Program (USA), 1994-2005" In Constructing and Sharing Memory: Community Informatics, Identity and Empowerment, Graeme Johanson and Larry Stillman, editors. Cambridge, England: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. text
Kate Williams, ed., Reading, writing, talking, learning: Dominican GSLIS students annotating Richard E. Rubin’s Foundations of Library and Information Science (working paper). Chicago: Dominican University GSLIS, 2006. text
Kate Williams and Abdul Alkalimat, "A Census of Public Computing in Toledo, Ohio," in Shaping the Network Society: The New Role of Civic Society in Cyberspace, Doug Schuler and Peter Day, editors. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2004.
Kate Williams and Abdul Alkalimat, L'espace public numérique á Toledo (Ohio),¨in Géographie et Cultures, number 46, Summer 2003 (special issue on public internet access and new sociabilities).
Kate Williams, "Literacy and computer literacy: Analyzing the NRC's 'Being Fluent with Information Technology'" (pdf also available). Journal of Literacy and Technology, volume 3, number 1, Spring 2003.
Kate Williams, "Research note: Across the US, 85,000 to 144,000 public computing sites." First Monday, volume 8, number 4, April 2003.
Kate Williams, Toledo Spiders: A Joint Archive of the W. J. Murchison Community Center and the University of Toledo Africana Studies Program (a finding aid to a collection of documents).
Kate Williams, "What is the Digital Divide?" A working paper for the d3 workshop, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 2001.
Kate Williams, "Literacy and Computer Literacy: The Cuban Experience." A photo report on a library tour of Cuba. ["Alfabetización y computadorización: La experiencia cubana." Informe de fotos sobre un viaje de bibliotecarios a Cuba.] Monica Atkins, translator. The Alliance for Community Technology, 2001.
Abdul Alkalimat and Kate Williams, "Social Capital and Cyberpower in the African American Community: A Case Study of a Community Technology Center in the Dual City." In Community Informatics: Shaping Computer Mediated Social Relations, Leigh Keeble and Brian Loader, editors. London: Routledge, 2001.
Kate Williams, "Library computers bridging the digital divide: An illustration of the usefulness of geographic information systems." Unpublished paper, December 2000.
Kate Williams, "Profile of an Information Community: H-Net." Part of the Helpseeking in an Electronic World project, Joan C. Durrance and Karen E. Pettigrew, principal investigators, 2000.
Kate Williams, "Libraries as ISPs." Ohio Libraries, Spring 2000.
Sarah Naasko, Sameer Patil, and Kate Williams, "Usability of the University of Michigan Gateway." Report prepared for the University of Michigan Janus Project, 2000.
"WKKF Youth Technology Dialogue." An interactive multimedia report of a meeting of practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and philanthropists on the potential for technology to support informal learning in youth serving organizations. The Alliance for Community Technology, 2000.
Kate Williams, "A Curriculum on Jobs and Technology," CPSR Journal, volume 14, number 1, Winter/Spring 1996.
Abdul Alkalimat, Doug Gills, and Kate Williams, eds. Job-Tech: The Technological Revolution and its Impact on Society. Chicago: Twenty-First Century Books, 1995.
PRESENTATIONS
"Social networks and social capital: Rethinking theory in community informatics" ASIST 2007, Milwaukee, Wisc., October 2007.
"Community Networks, Part Two" Illinois Library Association, Springfield, Ill., October 2007.
"Local response to the hurricanes: community-based organizations using information technologies and social networks for recovery" (with Rebecca Carter), at "The Death of New Orleans: An Exercise in Political Thought," Yale University, New Haven, Conn., November 2006.
"Advancing the field of community informatics," iConference 2006: Research Frontiers in Information, Ann Arbor, Mich., October 2006.
"Community informatics memory as archive: Assembling and using the records of the Technology Opportunities Program (USA), 1994-2005," Constructing and Sharing Memories: Community Informatics Research Network conference, Prato, Italy, October 2006.
"Community informatics and GIS: Exploring a new intersection" (with Tracey Hughes), Twenty-sixth Annual ESRI International User Conference, San Diego, Calif., August 2006.
"Federal funding to community technology: Lessons from the Technology Opportunities Program," panel organizer and chair, Community Technology Centers Network 15th Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., July 2006.
"Constructing and using the Technology Opportunity Program data archive: Working with a federal agency to study technology in local communities" (poster presentation with Ann Bishop, Mark Bard, and Andrea Wiggins) at IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology) 2006: Data in a World of Networked Knowledge, Ann Arbor, Mich., May 2006.
"What is Community Informatics and how can I make it work for my community?" Second Annual Digital Junction conference, Minneapolis, Minn., December 12, 2005.
"Social capital, social networks and the Technology Opportunities Program Archive," University of Michigan School of Information, SI 575 Community Information Corps course, December 9, 2005.
"Community informatics research workshop," co-leader, Association of Internet Researchers 6.0: Internet Generations, Chicago, Illinois, October 5, 2005.
"Community Informatics as a Focus for I-School Research and Education," First Conference of the I-School Community: Bridging Disciplines to Confront Grand Challenges, State College, Penn., September 29, 2005.
"Theoretical Foundations of Community Informatics," Building & Bridging Community Networks: Knowledge, Innovation & Diversity through Communication, Brighton, England, April 1, 2004.
"Social Capital and Cyberpower," University of Michigan School of Information, SI 575 Community Information Corps course, February 6, 2004.
"Public Computing: Theory and Method," University of Michigan School of Information, SI 501 Uses of Information, November 25, 2003.
"Social Capital, Telecenters and Unexpected Uploaders," Information, Communication, and Society conference, Oxford Internet Institute, September 29, 2003.
"A Census of Public Computing in Toledo, Ohio," l'Institut de Géographie, Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne), October 24, 2002.
"Practical Examples of Social Cyberpower," Information, Knowledge, Society (INFO 2002), Havana, April 25, 2002.
"University of Michigan School of Information: Educating Information Professionals in the Midst of an Information Revolution," Information, Knowledge, Society (INFO 2002), Havana, April 26, 2002.
"Why Online Community Works," NPR/PBS Online Summit, Baltimore, Md., February 22, 2002
"Social Capital and Cyberpower: Past Practice and New Theory," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, January 29, 2003.
"Communities and the Digital Divide," Michigan Legislative Black Caucus Public Policy Summit, Lansing, Mi., October 27, 2001
"Report-Out from the d3 Workshop," Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility annual meeting, Ann Arbor, Mi., October 20, 2001.
"Digital Divide Kaffeeklatch," Association for Internet Research, Minneapolis, Minn., October 13, 2001.
"The Black Experience in Cyberspace: Public Computing." Chesapeake Seminar 2000, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. June 19, 2000.
"A Local (Toledo, Ohio) Census of Public Access to Computing: New Data, New Methodology." Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (DIAC) 2000, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, University of Washington, Seattle, Wa. May 23, 2000.
TEACHING
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Community Informatics
Libraries, Information, Society
Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Chicago, Ill.
Community Informatics
Introduction to Library and Information Science
Introduction to Reference and Online Services
Management of Libraries and Information Centers
Research Methods
University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Uses of Information, SI 501 (teaching assistant, taught discussion sections)
Social Systems and Collections, SI 504 (teaching assistant, taught discussion sections)
University of Toledo, Toledo, Oh.
Technical Writing for Public Relations
Advanced News Writing
Computer OperationsDevry Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill.
Principles of ManagementSERVICE
Social Issues in Technology
Business Organization
Organizer and Chair, eChicago symposium, Chicago, Ill., April 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.
Editorial board, Library Quarterly, 2009-present.
Review editor, Journal of Community Informatics, 2009-present.
IRB Committee, Dominican University, 2006-2007.
Proposal review panel, Technology Opportunities Program, U.S. Department of Commerce, 2004.
Founder and chair, Social Network Analysis at SI, a series of occasional seminars for doctoral students and others, 2003.
Organizer and chair, Digital Divide Doctoral Students Workshop, a workshop for 21 students from 14 countries, in Ann Arbor, Mich., August 2001.
Search committee, University of Toledo Chief Information Officer, 1999.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND OTHER AWARDS
Community Informatics Initiative, University of Illinois, 2007.
"eChicago: Chicago Community Informatics: Places, Uses, Resources," Laura Bush Early Career Research Grant, Institute for Museum and Library Services, 2007.
TOP Research Grant, Benton Foundation, 2007.
Eugene Garfield/Association of Library and Science Educators (ALISE) Dissertation Award, Seattle, Wash., January 2007.
"Computer and Internet Use in several Chicago Community Areas: A Pilot Study of Social Networks and Local Technology," Dominican University faculty development grant, 2006.
University of Michigan School of Information post-doctoral research support, 2005.
Post-doctoral fellowship, University of Michigan School of Information, 2005.
Graduate fellowship, University of Michigan School of Information, 2005.
University of Michigan School of Information Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, 2005.
Third prize for "How Can Social Networks and Social Capital Explain ICT Use?" doctoral student dissertation research poster presented at Association for Library and Information Science Educators annual meeting, Boston, Mass., January 2005.
"Computer and Internet Use Among So-Called 'Technology Have-Nots' in the Latino Community of Toledo, Ohio," co-principal investigator with Salvador Rivas. Grant from the University of Michigan National Poverty Center, 2004."Using ICTs in Manchester." Grant from the Manchester Digital Development Agency, City of Manchester, England, 2004.
Research support grant from the University of Michigan Nonprofit and Public Management Center, 2002.
Graduate fellowship, W. K. Kellogg Foundation/Alliance for Community Technology, 2000-2004.
last updated January 2, 2010