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Tressie McMillan Cottom

Tressie McMillan Cottom joined UNC’s School of Information and Library Science as an associate professor in summer 2020 and became a senior faculty researcher in its Center for Information, Technology and Public Life. That October she was named a MacArthur Fellow. Her books include Thick, a 2019 National Book Award finalist.

Source: UNC-Chapel Hill: Carolina’s McMillan Cottom awarded “genius grant”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom, 2018
Tressie McMillan Cottom, 2018

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  1. Tressie McMillan Cottom joins the faculty of UNC’s School of Information and Library Science Sociologist and author Tressie McMillan Cottom joined the UNC School of Information and Library Science as an associate professor and became a senior faculty researcher in the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life.Search the index · UNC-Chapel Hill: Carolina’s McMillan Cottom awarded “genius grant”
  2. Tressie McMillan Cottom wins a MacArthur Fellowship The MacArthur Foundation named McMillan Cottom a 2020 fellow for her work as a sociologist, writer and public scholar on race, gender, education and digital technology, including her books Lower Ed and Thick. She was an associate professor at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science.Search the index · UNC-Chapel Hill: Carolina’s McMillan Cottom awarded “genius grant”

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Picture: Tressie McMillan Cottom, 2018. CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph by Lauren Garcia; via Wikimedia Commons

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