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Kellee Warren

Public Services Manager

University Library

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  • Public Services Manager
    University Library
  • Associate Professor and Special Collections Librarian
    University Library

BIO

Kellee E. Warren is Associate Professor and Special Collections Librarian at the University of Illinois Chicago. Ms. Warren’s article, “Jean Blackwell Hutson: Black Women’s Leadership in Librarianship and Archives,” a biographical analysis, was published in the May 2022 special issue of Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, 6 (1). Her article on an approach to archival instruction with colonial collections, “Reimagining Special Collections Instruction: A Special Case of Haiti” was published in The American Archivist, fall/winter 2020 edition. And her article “We Need These Bodies, but Not Their Knowledge: Black Women in the Archival Science Profession, and Their Connection to the Archives of Enslaved Black Women in the French Antilles” was published in Library Trends, spring 2016.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO APPOINTMENTS

  • Instructor and Special Collections Librarian
    University of Illinois at Chicago, University Library, Chicago, IL, United States16 Aug 2016 - 15 Aug 2018
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Illinois at Chicago, University Library, Chicago, IL, United States16 Aug 2018 - 15 Aug 2024
  • Public Services Manager
    University of Illinois at Chicago, University Library, Chicago, IL, United States16 Aug 2018
  • IDEA Commons Senior Library Specialist
    University of Illinois at Chicago, University Library, Chicago, IL, United States14 Jul 2014 - 15 Aug 2016
  • Associate Professor and Special Collections Librarian
    University of Illinois at Chicago, University Library, Chicago, United States16 Aug 2024

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Adjunct Reference and Instruction Librarian
    Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL, United States7 Sep 2015 - 16 Aug 2016

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Archie Motley Archives Intern
    Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC), Chicago, IL, United States10 Feb 2016 - 6 Jul 2016
  • Archives and Records Intern
    Chicago Community Trust, Chicago, IL, United States12 Aug 2014 - 8 Aug 2015

DEGREES

  • Master of Science in Library and Information Science
    University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Urbana, IL, United StatesMay 2015
  • B.A. in English: Media, Rhetoric and Cultural Studies, Minor in Communication
    University of Illinois at Chicago, Honors College - magna cum laude, Chicago, United StatesMay 2013

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • French