Director
Christine Pawley, Professor in Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (608) 263-2945, cpawley@wisc.edu
Personal Website: http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~cpawley/
Advisory Board
James L. Baughman, (Chair) Director and Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (608) 263-3390, baughman@wisc.edu
Rima Apple, (Past Chair) Professor Emerita, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Ecology, and the Women's Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (608) 263-9354, rdapple@consci.wisc.edu
Susan Barribeau, Humanities and Arts Librarian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (608) 262-9585. sbarribeau@library.wisc.edu
James P. Danky, Project Director, Newspapers and Periodicals of the African Diaspora, School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Danky founded the Center with Wayne Wiegand in 1992. He became Director Emeritus in 2006 and continues to co-edit the University of Wisconsin Press series. His latest book is Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix (Abrams, 2009) and his research interests include alternative print culture and the press of the African Diaspora. (608) 239-7587, jpdanky@wisc.edu
Michael Edmonds, Deputy Director, Library & Archives, Wisconsin Historical Society, (608) 264-6538, medmonds@library.wisc.edu
Florence C. Hsia, Associate Professor, Department of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (608) 262-3971, fchsia@wisc.edu
Sheila Leary, Director, University of Wisconsin Press, (608) 263-1101, smleary@wisc.edu
Stephen Paling, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (608) 263-2944, paling@wisc.edu
Stephen L. Vaughn, Professor, Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (608) 263-3393, slvaughn@facstaff.wisc.edu
Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Women's Studies Librarian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (608) 263-5754, pweisbard@library.wisc.edu
Ethelene Whitmire, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (608) 262-8952 ewhitmire@wisc.edu
Affiliates
Any member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison or of the Wisconsin Historical Society who has a declared interest in the history of print and digital culture may affiliate with the Center by sending an expression of interest and a CV or resume to the Director, who shall bring the request to the Advisory Board for approval. Affiliates shall receive notice of and (if necessary) formal invitations to all Center programs. They may be invited to meetings of the Advisory Board, and must be invited to discussions that determine the topic of the Center’s biennial conference.
Current Affiliates:
Susan Bernstein, English, Gender and Women's Studies, Center for Jewish Studies
Charles Cohen, History, Relgious Studies, Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions
Anuj C. Desai, School of Law
Greg Downey, Library and Information Studies, Journalism & Mass Communications
Kristin Eschenfelder, Library and Information Studies
Ken Frazier, Director, General Library System
Michael Fultz, Educational Policy Studies
Tracy Honn, Silver Buckle Press
Adam Kern, East Asian Languages and Literature, Center for Visual Cultures
Madge Klais, Library and Information Studies
Caroline Levine, English
Bala Venkat Mani, German
Jon McKenzie, English
Adam Nelson, History, Educational Policy Studies
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, History
William J. Reese, Educational Policy Studies and History
Robin Rider, Special Collections of General Library Systems
Louise Robbins, Library and Information Studies
John Rudolph, Curriculum and Instruction
Cherene Sherrard, English
Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, Ebling Health Sciences Library
David Zimmerman, English