Amanda "Mandy" Swygart-Hobaugh is an Assistant Professor and Data Services and Sociology Librarian at the Georgia State University Library. She hails from the Hoosier state (Indiana), where she earned her B.S. in Human Development/Family Studies and her Masters of Library Science (M.L.S.) from Indiana University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Purdue University. Her professional background has been quite varied, including working as an academic librarian in a small, liberal-arts college and university settings, as a public librarian, and here and there as an adjunct professor in women's studies, sociology, and library science.
Library & Information Science
Book Chapter - Information – Power to the People: Students and Librarians Dialoguing about Power, Social Justice, and Information, Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis (2013)
This chapter provides a case study of teaching an Honors Freshman Seminar at Georgia State...
Presentation - NVivo - Invigorating Your Teaching and Student Learning (2013)
Looking for ways to do in-depth analysis of your students’ writing assignments to inform your...
Guest Lecture, San José State University - LIBR 228: Advanced Information Resources and Services, Lecture Title: “Social Sciences Librarianship." (2012)
Guest Lecture for San José State University - LIBR 228: Advanced Information Resources and Services,...
Brochure - LGBTQIQ @ the GSU Library (2012)
Brochure created for the GSU Annual LGBTQIQA Welcome Reception for Students, Faculty and Staff, with...
ACRL in Anaheim ACRL programs at the ALA Annual Conference – Learning styles: Fiction, nonfiction, or mystery?, College & Research Libraries News (2012)
Sociology/Gender/Sexuality
“MY GOD! IF ONLY I COULD GET OUT OF HERE!” The Construction of “White Slavery” as a Social Problem in Progressive-Era Chicago (2013)
This paper presentation draws from my dissertation research, in which I examined how Progressive-Era Chicago...
Book Chapter - Information – Power to the People: Students and Librarians Dialoguing about Power, Social Justice, and Information, Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis (2013)
This chapter provides a case study of teaching an Honors Freshman Seminar at Georgia State...
Presentation - NVivo - Invigorating Your Teaching and Student Learning (2013)
Looking for ways to do in-depth analysis of your students’ writing assignments to inform your...
Brochure - LGBTQIQ @ the GSU Library (2012)
Brochure created for the GSU Annual LGBTQIQA Welcome Reception for Students, Faculty and Staff, with...