Dr. Emily Maemura

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Emily Maemura is an assistant professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on how web materials selected and curated in web archives preserve the history of the internet. Maemura is engaged in the emerging field of critical web archives studies, alongside critical data studies and critical archival studies. Her work broadly explores information organization on the internet, emphasizing the necessity of making information usable and available in the online world. Maemura's research has been published in various academic journals, including the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology and the International Journal of Digital Humanities. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information, with a dissertation exploring practices for collecting and curating web pages for future use by researchers in the social sciences and humanities.

Research Interests

Awards

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Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

2019-01-01
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Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Award

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Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement

2018-01-01

Courses

Office hours by appointment

Requirements for University of Illinois

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
IELTS
Listening
Required:7
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:17
Reading
Required:19
Writing
Required:21
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:103
GRE General
Prerequisites
Mathematical background Linear Algebra Calculus
Application Checklist
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  • Academic Statement of Purpose
  • Resume/CV
Specialization Notes

GRE is optional for admission to all graduate programs in Statistics. Full status admission requires higher language scores than limited status.