Jeremy Keen Abbott (he/him)
Ph.D. in Information Studies
Jeremy Abbott (he/him) is a librarian and lawyer, currently pursuing a doctorate in UCLA’s Department of Information Studies, where he researches the “public” in public libraries, examining the regulatory, technological, and spatial means by which information access influences inclusion in the civic public. His other interests include the political economy of homelessness, leisure visions of the public library, and library decarceration.
Degree Program
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Interests
- History of Library and Information Studies
- Knowledge Infrastructures
- Library Studies
- Privacy and Surveillance
- Social Justice
Research Center Affiliations
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Education
- Graduate Certificate, Urban Humanities Initiative, University of California, Los Angeles
- MLIS, University of California, Los Angeles
- JD, The George Washington University Law School
- BA History, English, Minor in Classics, Northwestern University
Awards, Honors, and Fellowships
- Best Doctoral Poster, CoLIS 2025: 12th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, 2025
- UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy Student Working Group Award, 2022-2023
Select Publications
- Abbott, Jeremy Keen. 2025. “Library Time: In Pursuit of Liberatory Leisure”. Information Research an International Electronic Journal 30 (CoLIS):15-28.
- Montoya, Robert D., Jeremy Abbott, Michelle Caswell, Gregory H. Leazer, Safiya Noble, and Carlin Soos. “Examining Concepts of the Public: Who Is Served by Information Services?” Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 58 (2021): 619–21.