Participant Info

First Name
Kristen
Last Name
Howard
Country
Canada
State
Affiliation
McGill Libraries
Website URL
https://www.mcgill.ca/libraries/librarians/kristen-howard
Keywords
Early Modern Europe, Reformation, History of Religion, Reformation Geneva, John Calvin, Family and Gender, Medical History, Social Welfare, Charity, Poor Relief, Hospitals, Generative AI, GenAI
Availability
Media Contact
Additional Contact Information
PhD
PhD

Personal Info

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About Me

Kristen C. Howard is the Liaison Librarian for History, Classics, Religious Studies, and Indigenous Studies at McGill University Libraries. She received a BA in History from Washington State University (2012), MA (2014) and PhD (2020) in History from the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona, and Master of Information Studies (2022) from McGill University. Her dissertation is titled “‘A house dedicated to God’: Social Welfare and the General Hospital in Reformation Geneva, 1535-1564.”

Recent Publications

Howard, K. (2026). The spectrum of authority: A new approach to teaching AI and primary source literacies. Communications in Information Literacy 20(1), 152-168.

Howard, K. & Tummon, N. (2025). Understanding student citation literacy: A multi-method approach. Public Services Quarterly, 21(2), 85-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/15228959.2025.2467715.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Switzerland and France/Western Europe
Expertise by Geography
Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Pre-17th century
Expertise by Topic
Religion