Dr. Katie LaPlant is Lecturer of Information at University of Michigan School of Information. She researches eighteenth-century British women of the poor, working, and middling classes, examining the interconnections between crime, social class, and the social world of London. Her work interrogates relationships between both formal and informal social, economic, and legal institutions. She is particularly interested in ways that AI can be used as a tool for historical research. 

Along with a deep knowledge of world history, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Information Studies, graduate communications, writing, special information topics, and research methods. Before joining the University of Michigan School of Information, Katie spent more than two years working with scholars in English language teaching as ELT Editor at University of Michigan Press and teaching advanced history courses at Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio. Prior to this, she taught history in the Department of History at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Areas of interest

History of information; information economics; AI; society and technology; student learning and success

Education

Katie received her Ph.D. in History from The University of Michigan in 2021 and an MA in History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Bowling Green State University in 2014.