Bob Williams Research Grant Recipients
Established in 2009 as the History of Information Science and Technology Fund Awards, the grant and paper awards were collectively renamed the Bob Williams Awards in 2017
The recipients of the Bob Williams Research Grant are:
Year
Recipient
2024
Not Awarded
2023
Lin Wang for the proposal " Historical Evolution of “Qingbao” Concept in Chinese Modern Information Science (1978-2003)"
2022
Alex Poole for the proposal "From ADI to the iField: The Association for Information Science and Technology, 1937-2022"
2021
Not Awarded
2020
Alyson Gamble, Simmons University, for the proposal “Mental Health Information in LIS: A 100 Year Retrospective of Access and Attitudes”
2019
Not awarded
2018
Lynne Bowker, University of Ottawa, for the proposal “Revealing One of Information Science and Technology’s ‘Hidden Figures’: How Helmut Felber brought information science principles to bear on the development of early term banks”
2017
Matthew Mayernik, National Center for Atmospheric Research, for the proposal “Organizing Scientists, Organizing Data: Infrastructures and Institutions for Long-Term Scientific Data Initiatives”
2016
Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan & Thomas Dousa, Aix-Marseille University and University of Chicago, for the proposal “Information Science: Origins, Theories & Paradigms: A Comparative Approach”
2015
Ronald Day, Indiana University Bloomington, for the book project “Documentarity, the Literary and the Right to Truth”
2014
Not awarded
2013
Kalpana Shankar & Kristin Eschenfelder, University College Dublin and University of Wisconsin-Madison, for the proposal “Social Science Data Archives: A Historical View of Sustainability, Access and Use
2012
Not awarded
2011
Trudi Bellardo Hahn & Diane Barlow, University of Maryland, for the proposal “Research on the NSF, information science, and Helen Brownson”
2010
Andrew Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology, for the proposal “An open world: ideological origins of network standards”
2009
Charles Meadow, University of Toronto, for the proposal to study the digital divide historically.