Kendra Cowley
Research & Outreach Services
Graduate Research and Engagement Librarian
Kendra Cowley (she/her) is the Graduate Research and Engagement Librarian. In this
role, she serves as the liaison for American Studies, Communication and Journalism,
English, Gender Studies, International Studies, Native American Studies, and Political
Science.
Before joining UW Libraries, Kendra was a public librarian at the Toronto Public Library where she worked on programs with incarcerated patrons, housing co-ops, and harm reduction advocates. Her research work includes publications on resistance within women’s prisons, settler colonial soundscapes, and the impacts of the toxic drug supply crisis on public libraries.
Before joining UW Libraries, Kendra was a public librarian at the Toronto Public Library where she worked on programs with incarcerated patrons, housing co-ops, and harm reduction advocates. Her research work includes publications on resistance within women’s prisons, settler colonial soundscapes, and the impacts of the toxic drug supply crisis on public libraries.
Education:
- MLIS, Library and Information Science, University of Alberta
- MA, Digital Humanities, University of Alberta
- BA, Political Science, University of Alberta
Selected Publications:
Cowley, K. (2024). Taking our lead from women prisoners. Midnight Sun. https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/taking-our-lead-from-women-prisoners/.
Cowley, K. (2023). Unsettling Colonial Mapping: Sonic-Spatial Representations of amiskwaciwâskahikan.
In P. BARRETT & S. ROGER (Eds.), Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities (DGO-Digital
original, pp. 349–366). University of Ottawa Press. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75341
