Marija Dalbello

Marija Dalbello studies the history of books and reading, text/image relations, history and theories of knowledge and information. She founded, teaches in, and coordinates the nationally ranked MI Archives and Preservation concentration (2017-ongoing).

Her books include Visible Writings: Cultures, Forms, Readings (2011), co-edited with Mary Shaw, A History of Modern Librarianship: Constructing the Heritage of Western Cultures (2015), co-edited with Wayne A. Wiegand; Reading Home Cultures Through Books (2022), co-edited with Kirsti Salmi-Niklander; and Global Voices from the Women's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition (2024), co-edited with Sarah Wadsworth. Her forthcoming book T-Bone Slim and the Transnational Poetics of the Migrant Left in North America is co-edited with Kirsti Salmi-Niklander and Saku Pinta. She also co-edited several special issues of journals, Print Culture in Croatia: The Canon and the Borderlands and Archaeology and Information Research. She is Highly Commended Award Winner of the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012 for article: “A Genealogy of Digital Humanities,” The Journal of Documentation. Her awards are from KONE Foundation, Immigration History Research Center, and Andrew A. Mellon Foundation. She was visiting fellow at École nationale des Chartes at the Sorbonne and the University of Helsinki and served as board chair of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (2019-2021). She co-directed the Rutgers Seminar in the History of the Book (2006-2012) and directed the doctoral program in Communication, Information, and Media (2011-2014).

Her current research focuses on transnational migration during the Progressive era at the nexus of literacy and citizenship.

Ph.D., Information Studies, University of Toronto
M.L.S., Library Science, Kent State University
Diploma of Graduate Librarian, Information Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
B.Sc., English and Sanskrit, University of Zagreb, Croatia

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