Biography
Lily Denehy is a dual-degree master’s student in History and Library and Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is interested in how gender, empire, and race work in sports contexts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In information sciences, she aspires to be an academic librarian with interests in reference, instruction, humanities and fine arts research, and government information schemas.
Research Interests
Sports history, British empire, gender and sexuality
Academic librarianship, instructional design, government dual classification schemes
Education
B.A. in History, Macalester College, 2022
Awards and Honors
List of Faculty Ranked as Excellent (Fall 2023 and Spring 2024), highest ranking of outstanding (Fall 2023)
Courses Taught
IS 100: Exploring the iSchool with a Human-Centered Lens (TA, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024)
IS 200: Professional Skills in Information Science (TA, Fall 2023; Instructor of Record, Spring 2024)
Additional Campus Affiliations
M.S. student in Library and Information Science at the School of Information Sciences
Pre-Professional Graduate Assistant in the International and Area Studies Library and Center for Global Studies
Graduate Teaching Assistant at the School of Information Sciences