Tyler Youngman is a Ph.D. student at the iSchool. He is a scholar-educator in library and information science, philosophy of information, and cultural heritage informatics. His research explores how knowledge destruction occurs across libraries, archives, and museums––and consequently––how cultural erasure impacts heritage, memory, and identity formation. Tyler combines materialist, historical, digital, and philosophical theoretic approaches with critical qualitative methodologies to examine the ethical intersections of information, culture, technology, and memory institutions. His ongoing research uses critical narrative analysis and document phenomenology to examine the informational power dynamics of historical knowledge production in light of conceptual developments in epistemicide and epistemic injustice.
Tyler’s scholarship has been internationally recognized with best paper awards from the Association for Library and Information Science Education (2022, 2023, 2024) and the Association for Information Science and Technology (2023). His first co-authored monograph with Drs. Beth Patin and Melinda Sebastian, entitled “The Harms of Epistemicide”, is forthcoming from Library Juice Press. Tyler is a former Library of Congress Junior Fellow and newspaper archivist, and currently a partner with the Collaborative Institute for Rural Communities and Librarianship (CIRCL). An avid musician, Tyler regularly performs with Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel Choir!
In the iSchool, Tyler teaches “IST622/MUS600: Introduction to Cultural Heritage Preservation” (Fall 2024) and “IST382: Cultural Competencies for Information Professionals” (Spring 2025).
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