Education

Awards

2008

Library Journal LIS Educator of the Year Award, $5000.

2004

Sarah K. Vann Professional Service Award, University of Hawaii ALA Student Chapter.

2002

Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study of the Humanities, Edinburgh University.

2001

University of Hawaii Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching.

1992-1995

HEA Fellowship, Indiana University School of Library and Information Science.

Conferences

Paper Presentations are in italics

2012

Incunabula on the Move: The Production, Circulation and Collection of Early Printed Books. March 6, 2012, Clare College, Cambridge University.

2012

How The Secularization of Religious Houses Transformed The Libraries of Europe, 16th-19th Centuries. March 22-24, 2012. Oxford University.

2012

‘Books of Every Taste’: The Advance of the Library in the Long-Eighteenth Century, May 12, 2012, Leeds Library & University of Leeds. United Kingdom.

2012

W.T. Stead: Centenary Conference for a Newspaper Revolutionary, April 16, 2012 British Library, London.

2011

Knuth, Rebecca. “Destruction of Libraries During War.” Book Destruction Conference, University of London. April 16, 2011.

2011

Knuth, Rebecca. “Andrew Carnegie.” Hawaii State Public Library. February, 2011.

2010

Writing the Empire: Scribblings from Below. University of Bristol, England. 24th-26th June 2010

2010

Hans Sloane Conference. British Library, June 7-8, 2010

2009

Knuth, Rebecca. “Threatening Fusions: When Ideologues and Demagogues Meet Ideas and Libraries.” Medical Libraries Association Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii. May, 20, 2009.

2009

Knuth, Rebecca. “Extremism and the Destruction of Libraries.” CILIP Seminar, London, England, March 27, 2009.

2008

Knuth, Rebecca. “Destroying Books and Libraries.” Hawai'i Regional Meeting, "Traditions, Resistance, and Change.” March 15, 2008.

2007

Knuth, Rebecca. “The Wartime Destruction of Libraries.” Books on the Battlefield, October, 2007. York, England.

2006

“Towards a Solid Organization: Infrastructure and Awareness.’ Blue Shield Working Conference, Royal Library, Sept. 27-28, The Hague, Holland.

2006

“Cultural Emergency Response.” Conference Sponsored by the Prince Claus Fund, Sept. 24-5, The Hague, Holland.

2006

Knuth, Rebecca. “Destroying a Symbol: The Checkered History of Sri Lanka's Jaffna Public Library.” International Federation of Library Associations and Institution Annual Conference, August, 2006, Seoul, Korea. (paper accepted)

2005

Knuth, Rebecca. “Book Destruction and Ethnic Violence in India and Kashmir.” Library History Seminar XI [Libraries in Times of War, Revolution, and Social Change.] University of Illinois, October, 2005.

2005

Knuth, Rebecca. “Compromising Democracy: Militarism, Strategic Bombing, and the Destruction of Libraries.” Remembering and Reconsidering: The 60th Anniversary of the End of World War II in Europe and Asia. University of Hawaii, November, 2005.

2005

Knuth, Rebecca. “Prelude to Genocide.” Sixth Biennial Conference, International Association of Genocide Scholars, Boca Raton, Florida, June, 2005.

2005

UNESCO and World Archeological Association Conference, “Cultural Landscapes.” Newcastle, England, April, 2005.

2005

International Studies Association Conference, Honolulu, March, 2005.

2003

Knuth, Rebecca. “The Destruction of Berlin's Institute for Sexual Knowledge.” International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Annual Conference, Berlin, July 2003.

2003

Knuth, Rebecca. “Libricide: A Shadow Phenomenon.” Fifth Biennial International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference, Galway, Ireland, June 2003.

2003

Knuth, Rebecca. “The Destruction of Texts and Libraries in Iraq, 2003.” Hawaii Library Association Annual Conference, Lanai, Hawaii, December, 2003.

2002

Knuth, Rebecca. “Book Burning and Issues of Evil.” Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness Conference, Prague, Czechoslovakia, March 15-20, 2002.

2002

“Enlightening the British” Conference. British Museum, London, England, April 4-6, 2002.

2002

“The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive.” University of Edinburgh, Scotland, March, 2002.

2001

Knuth, Rebecca. “Total War and the Destruction of Books in WWII.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, July 2001.

2000

Knuth, Rebecca. “One People, One Nation: Libraries and Nationalism.” Library of Congress Symposium on National Libraries, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2000.

2000

Knuth, Rebecca. “China's Destruction of the Libraries of Tibet.” Lost Libraries Conference, Magdalen College, Cambridge, England, Sept. 2000.

2000

Knuth, Rebecca. “Libricide, Ethnocide, Genocide.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing Conference, Mainz, Germany, July 2000.

1999

Conference on International Law, Human Rights, and Refugee Health and Wellbeing: Legal, Humanitarian, and Health Issues and Directions. Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov. 1999.

1999

Knuth, Rebecca. “Genocide: Beyond Remembrance or Denial.” Conference on International Law, Human Rights, and Refugee Health and Wellbeing: Legal, Humanitarian, and Health Issues and Directions. Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov. 1999.

1998

“Psycho-Social Factors in Complex Emergencies” Conference. American Red Cross. Washington, D.C., March, 1999.

1998

Knuth, Rebecca. “From Orality to Literacy Through Local Culture.” International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Annual Conference, Amsterdam, August 1998.

1998

Pacific Telecommunications Council Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, January, 1998.

1997

Knuth, Rebecca. “Sovereignty, Internationalism, and Information Flow in Complex Emergencies.” Asia-Pacific Disaster Conference, Kauai, Hawaii. September 1997.

1997

ALISE (American Library and Information Science Educators) Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January, 1997.

1996

Knuth, Rebecca. “Trends and Patterns in the International Association of School Librarianship, 1972-1994.” IASL Conference, Ochos Rios, Jamaica. July 1996.

1996

Knuth, Rebecca. “The Case Study as Methodology.” Canadian Evaluation Society National Conference, Winnipeg, Canada. May 1996.

1996

Hawaii Library Association Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, November, 1996.

1996

Founder's Conference, International Space University, Pacific Area Center: East West Center, Hoolulu, Hawaii. 1996.

1996

Children's Literature Hawaii Biennial Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June, 1996.

1995

The 36th Rare Books and Manuscripts Preconference, Bloomington, Indiana, June, 1995.

1995

Association for Library and Information Science Conference, Philadelphia, Pa, January, 1995.

1994

UNESCO World Symposium on Family Literacy, Paris, October, 1994.

1994

Systems Theory and the Postmodern Condition, Bloomington, Indiana, September, 1994.

1994

International Association of School Librarianship Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, July, 1994.

1994

Knuth, Rebecca. “An Integrative Model of Evaluation.” Canadian Evaluation Society National Conference, Quebec, May 1994.

1993

UNESCO/IFLA Preconference Seminar on School Libraries and Developing Countries, Caldes de Montbui, Spain, 1993.

1993

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Barcelona, Spain, 1993.

Recent Mentions and Reviews

2008

Reviewed by Roger Griffin (2008): A Review of: Rebecca Knuth. Burning Books and Leveling Libraries. Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction, Terrorism and Political Violence, 20:2, 310-312, [pdf]