Merinda Kaye Hensley

Senior Fellow in Information Literacy and Contributing staff, PIL Provocation Series
Associate Professor and Digital Scholarship Liaison and Instruction Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Merinda Kaye Hensley is a PIL Senior Fellow in Information Literacy where she works on the new “PIL Provocation Series.” She is also Associate Professor and Digital Scholarship Liaison and Instruction Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she is part of the Scholarly Commons team, a digital scholarship center that partners with librarians and campus initiatives to support scholarly work across disciplines. She teaches “Instructional Strategies and Techniques for Information Professionals” and “Reference and Information Services” for the Illinois iSchool. Her research interests focus on the intersections of scholarly communication and information literacy, in particular the role and impact of the librarian in teaching undergraduate researchers about the publication process and sharing their work online. She earned her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Arizona and a M.S. in Library Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Alison Head

Executive Director and Principal Investigator

Editor, Provocation Series

Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg

Advisory Board Member

Director of CIRCLE Tufts University

David Nasatir

Advisory Board Member

Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley, Sociology (Retired)

Steven Geofrey

Senior Researcher in Information Design

Contributing Writer, PIL Provocation Series

Assistant Teaching Professor/Designer in Residence, Northeastern University, Art + Design

Barbara Fister

Contributing Editor, Provocation Series (2021 – present)

PIL Scholar-in-Residence

Professor Emerita, Gustavus Adolphus College

Margy MacMillan

Senior Researcher

Associate Editor, Provocation Series

Professor Emerita, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta

Jessica Yurkofsky

Research Analyst

Principal and Creative Technologist, metaLAB (at) Harvard

Meredith D. Clark

Advisory Board Member

Associate Professor Northeastern University

Peter Morville

Advisory Board Member

Founder and Director, Semantic Studios

Lee Rainie

Advisory Board Member

Founder and Director, Pew’s Internet & American Life Project

Alaina Bull

Research Analyst

Contributing staff, PIL Provocation Series

First-Year Experience Librarian, The University of Washington Tacoma

Kirsten Hostetler

Research Analyst

Contributing writer, PIL Provocation Series

Instruction and Outreach Faculty, Central Oregon Community College

Michele Van Hoeck

Research Analyst

Library Dean, California State University Maritime Academy

Merinda Kaye Hensley

Senior Fellow in Information Literacy

Contributing staff, PIL Provocation Series

Associate Professor, Digital Scholarship Liaison, Instruction Librarian,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign