Kristin
Eschenfelder is an Associate Professor at the School of
Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also an affiliate member of the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies and a member of the Wisconsin
Digital Humanities initiative.
Her
research areas are- Digital intellectual and cultural property, rights
management, licensing, the scholarly electronic publishing industry,
social informatics, government information. More generally, she is
interested in almost everything related to social and cultural aspects of
information technologies. She has recently developed an interest in financial
literacy stemming from her LIS 202 course and her closet fandom for Planet
Money.
Teaching:
She teaches a large undergraduate course called "Digital Divides and Differences
in an Information Society" and graduate courses in database design,
electronic resource management (how does JSTOR work anyways?),
information policy and ethics, web design, research methods and introduction to
technology.