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Michele Jennings
Assistant Professor; Special Collections Instruction Librarian
Full-Time Faculty
Libraries: Marian Library
Profile
Michele Jennings is the Special Collections Instruction Librarian and Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton’s Marian Library, where she develops and implements instructional opportunities with primary sources and the Marian Library’s collections, curates exhibits and programming, acts as performing arts liaison librarian, and stewards the Marian Library’s archival holdings.
Degrees
- MLIS, University of British Columbia
- MA, Art History, Ohio University
- BA, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz
Research Interests
As an arts and special collections information worker, Michele researches and is interested in the ways that archival materials are used in creative disciplines, ways of knowing and researching for creative practitioners, and critical approaches to primary source instruction. Her recent art historical research focuses on West Coast modernism and settler colonialism in the built environment.