ALISE 2024 Award Winners

The ALISE Board of Directors is pleased to announce the 2024 ALISE award winners. These individuals exemplify the excellence that ALISE encourages and represents in the LIS community. Congratulations to all of our award winners!

ALISE Awards 

Service to ALISE Award
No award was given out in 2024.

ALISE Award for Professional Contribution to Library and Information Science

Laura Saunders, Simmons University

ALISE Excellence in Teaching Award

Early Career: 

Elliott Kuecker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Senior Faculty:

Emily Knox, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

ALISE/Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award

  
Catherine Dumas, University at Albany
Rachel Williams, University of South Carolina

ALISE/Norman Horrocks Leadership Award
No award was given out in 2024.

ALISE Community conn@CT Mini-Grants
No award was given out in 2024.

ALISE/Connie Van Fleet Award for Research Excellence in Public Library Services to Adults

Amelia Anderson, University of South Florida

Annual Conference Awards & Grants

ALISE Best Conference Paper Award

  
Beth Patin & Tyler Youngman, Syracuse University
Fallacy as Foundation of Post-Truth Knowledge and Know in LIS

Diversity Travel Award to the ALISE Annual Conference

Yi Wan, University of South Carolina

ALISE/Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition

1st- Kaitlin Montague, Rutgers University

2nd- Brittany Baum, Florida State University

2nd- Andrew Zalot, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

ALISE/University of Washington Information School Youth Services Graduate Student Travel Award

No award was given out in 2024.

Leadership Development Internship

Sarah Appedu, Syracuse University

Amanda Harrison, University of Central Missouri

Kristina Shiroma, Louisiana State University

ALISE Research Awards/Grants

ALISE Research Grant Competition

Akhilesh Yadav, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Bridging Gaps in Local and Global Perspectives in Library and Information Science Education: Convergences and Divergences in Postgraduate Programs

ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition
     

Travis Wagner, University of Illinois, & Vanessa Kitzie, University of South Carolina
"In Many Ways, You're This Person Who's Providing Light": Theorizing Embodied Responses to Information Absence within LGBTQIA+ Communities

ALISE/ProQuest Methodology Paper Competition

  
Shana Pribesh, Old Dominion University, & Lois Wine, Old Dominion University
Impact of School Librarians on Elementary Student Achievement in Reading and Mathematics: A Propensity Score Analysis

ALISE/Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Competition

Saguna Shankar, University at Buffalo
Caring for Newcomer Communities and Their Data: An Inquiry into Interdependence in Information Practices