Emily Knox
Interim Dean at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolEmily Knox is an academic leader and information science scholar with over a decade of experience at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, currently serving as Interim Dean. Her research and teaching focus on information access, intellectual freedom, censorship, and the social dimensions of information policy and ethics. She has advanced through faculty and administrative ranks—Assistant Professor to Associate Professor to Professor and interim associate dean—bringing deep curriculum experience across courses from Information Ethics to Information Organization & Access. Based in Champaign, Illinois, she combines rigorous PhD training in Communication, Information and Library Studies with practical library operations experience earlier in her career. Notably, she has hands-on experience implementing library systems and web services, giving her a rare blend of scholarly insight and technical/library systems know-how. Colleagues value her for steady academic leadership that bridges research, teaching, and policy in the information professions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Religion, BA Religion at Smith CollegeMS Library and Information Science, MS Library and Information Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMA Religion, MA Religion at University of ChicagoPhD Communication Information and Library Studies, PhD Communication Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University
Github Skills (8)
outlook10
two-way10
synchronize10
calendars9
synchronization9
portable9
windows8
google8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
LIS501/syllabi
Aug 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years
phw198/OutlookGoogleCalendarSync
Oct 2020 - Jan 2025
Sync your Outlook and Google calendars
Contributions:5 comments, 2 issues in 4 years 4 months
calendarwindowssyncsynchronizationgoogle
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