Jeffrey Wheeler
Graduate Student
History
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About
Jeff Wheeler is Liaison Librarian to the University of Illinois at Chicago's History; Anthropology; and Criminology, Law and Justice Departments. He earned his Master's in Library Science from Drexel University in 2007, has over 6 years professional librarian experience, and is finishing his PhD in History at UIC. Jeff investigates transformations in urban library services in the late-20th century as a window into the cultural and political history of education, philanthropy, and social services after the mid-1960s. Engaging urban history, labor history, and the history of education, he research critically examines shifts in the practice of public librarianship in relation to federal education and economic policy and demographic change.
Selected Publications
Wheeler, J. (2021). “How Much Is Not Enough?”: Public Library Outreach to “Disadvantaged” Communities in the War on Poverty. The Library Quarterly (Chicago), 91(2), 190–208. https://doi.org/10.1086/713043
Research Currently in Progress
Labor, Social and Cultural History of Public Libraries and The Welfare State History, Library History, Social History of Libraries, Cultural History of Libraries