Joseph Winberry
Assistant Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science
Expertise
Community engagement and organizing; critical library outreach and services to diverse populations; information marginalization; social justice in information and library science; qualitative and action research methods.
Education
Ph.D., Communication & Information, University of Tennessee
Graduate Certificate, Gerontology, University of Tennessee
MS, Information Sciences, University of Tennessee
BA, History; Political Science, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Biography
Joseph Winberry, Ph.D. is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science. His research currently emphasizes critical library practice and impact, especially in relation to societal aging. Prior to graduate school, Dr. Winberry spent several years working for non-profit organizations including the American Red Cross, and the Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee’s Office on Aging where he originated the organization’s elder abuse response programs. Current service activities include serving as the co-convener of the Association for Library and Information Science Education’s (ALISE) Historical Perspectives Special Interest Group, and as the founding co-chair of the Aging Rainbow Coalition which is a new initiative which emerged from his dissertation to meet the aging services information needs of LGBT+ older adults in East Tennessee. He credits his time working in non-profits, archives, and libraries with inspiring a belief in using information and library research to help people make a difference in their lives.