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
2025
Naresh Agarwal
"Weaving the history of the information science field through the life journeys of ASIS&T Past Presidents:
2024
Not Awarded
2023
Lin Wang
"Historical Evolution of “Qingbao” Concept in Chinese Modern Information Science (1978-2003)"
2022
Alex Poole
"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
“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
“Organizing Scientists, Organizing Data: Infrastructures and Institutions for Long-Term Scientific Data Initiatives”
2016
Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan & Thomas Dousa
“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
“Social Science Data Archives: A Historical View of Sustainability, Access and Use
2012
Not awarded
2011
Trudi Bellardo Hahn & Diane Barlow
“Research on the NSF, information science, and Helen Brownson”
2010
Andrew Russell
“An open world: ideological origins of network standards”
2009
Charles Meadow
Proposal to study the digital divide historically