Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Metadata Services & Special Collections Librarian Rachel Evans presented "Hosting a Homeschool Happening: Outreach with Optimism" at the GALILEO 2023 Conference during June. GALILEO, known as Georgia's virtual library, is an initiative of the University System of Georgia.
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West received the Stonecipher Award for Distinguished Research on Media Law and Policy for her co-authored article "The U.S. Supreme Court's Characterizations of the Press: An Empirical Study" in the North Carolina Law Review (with R.A. Jones). The award is presented annually by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication to recognize the "best mass communications law research" with preference "given to research with a strong theoretical component that demonstrates the potential to have a lasting influence on freedom of expression scholarship." Notably, West received the award in 2017 for her article "The ‘Press,’ Then & Now" in the Ohio State Law Journal.
Metadata Services & Special Collections Librarian Rachel Evans presented "The Building Blocks of Project Management Design" at the Best Practices Exchange (Un)Conference during June. Best Practices Exchange is an online community for librarians, archivists, records managers and other information professionals dedicated to managing digital information in government and non-government settings.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch published "MDL for the People" in 108 Iowa Law Review 1015 (2023).
Assistant Professor Thomas E. Kadri published "Brokered Abuse" in 3 Journal of Free Speech Law 137 (2023).