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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.