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Associate Professor E-mail: drtwelsh@yahoo.com Tel: 601.296.0528 PhD, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Dr. Welsh is a native Mississippian who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern Mississippi with a B.A. degree in anthropology and minors in social studies and classical studies. While at Southern Miss, she was a member of the Honors College as well as Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Theta Kappa, Lambda Alpha, Gamma Beta Phi, and Golden Key Honor Societies. She earned an M.L.I.S. and later a Ph.D. in communication and information from the University of Tennessee with a specialty in information sciences. She was a member of Kappa Tau Alpha Honor Society and awarded the Hilton A. Smith Graduate Fellowship from UTK as well as Best Technical Project Award and Best Doctoral Paper Award from the School of Information Sciences.
She has taught at Southern Miss since summer 2003 and has received the 2007 Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Education and Psychology, was one of 12 faculty chosen for the 2007-08 Learning Enhancement Center Podcasting Pilot Project, served as an assistant director for the Katrina Research Center, and served on the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences Advisory Board. In addition to being published in scholarly journals and conference proceedings, she has authored several book chapters and is currently co-authoring a book on information literacy. Teaching and research interests include historical research, bibliometric research, information literacy, information retrieval, international librarianship, museum studies and archival studies.
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