Vanessa Kitzie
BSIS Lead and Associate Professor, School of Information Science, College of Information and Communications, University of South Carolina
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Dr. Vanessa Kitzie studies the information practices of marginalized groups, with a focus on LGBTQ+ people and communities. Her research findings inform how information centers, such as libraries, and systems can better serve these individuals. Kitzie's work is interdisciplinary, spanning library and information science, communication, sociology, and critical studies.
Kitzie won a 2024 Carnegie-Whitney Grant for the project "Leveraging LIS Research Insights to Support LGBTQIA+ Communities."
