Biography
Camryn "Cam" Burkins is a third-year student in the joint Library and Information Science (MSLIS) and History (MA) degree programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Cam has a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. At the University of Illinois, Cam is investigating the legacy of Black-American people post-Great Migration and how new technology enables old forms of violence. Cam is advised by Dr. Erik McDuffie.
Research Interests
Afro-Pessimism
Algorithmic Intelligence
Applied History
Black-American Diaspora, Post-Great Migration
Black Feminist Theory
Critical Race Theory (CRT)
Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA)
Epistemicide
Ethnography
Information Access
Information Experience
Information Literacy
Information-Seeking Behavior
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
The Spectacle of Black Death
Transnationalism
Transnational Feminism
Education
B.S. Civil Engineering; The University of Texas at Austin, 2017
Grants
The University of Illinois at Champaign Ilinois, iSchool Travel Grant, Summer 2022
The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Spectrum Scholarship, 2023—2024
Awards and Honors
American Library Association (ALA) Spectrum Scholar, 2023—2024
Additional Campus Affiliations
M.S. Library and Information Science; The School of Information Science (iSchool)
Preprofessional Graduate Assistant; Grainger Engineering Library Information Center
Graduate Research Assistant; School of Art + Design