Meg Galasso
- Affiliation:
- Arts & Humanities
- Subject specialist in:
- History,
- Jewish Studies,
- Religious Studies
- Office Location:
- Herman B Wells Library1320 E 10th St.Bloomington, IN 47405
- Office Phone:
- (812) 856-3175
- Email:
- galasso@iu.edu
About
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Meg Galasso supports the teaching, learning, and research of faculty and students in History, Jewish Studies, and Religious Studies. This work includes selecting and purchasing relevant materials, collaborating with faculty to provide engaging workshops for their students, hosting research consultations, and connecting researchers with the tools and services available to provoke and explore new and compelling questions.
Her current research examines the intersection of identity, fatness, and public-facing librarianship, with a particular emphasis on the ways in which gender, race, presentation, and expectations affect fat librarians' professional identities and experiences of inclusion or exclusion. Some recent works include:
- Galasso, M. (Forthcoming, Spring 2025). Confronting anti-fat bias to create more inclusive libraries. In B. L. Newman (Ed.), Well-being in the Library Workplace: A Handbook for Managers. ALA Editions.
- Galasso, M. (2023, October 19). Fatness and libraries: Amplifying the voices of fat librarians in DEIA work. Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Region 6 Speakers Spotlight Series.
- Galasso, M. (2023). Fatness and the future of equity, diversity, and inclusion in librarianship. Forging the Future: ACRL 2023 Conference Proceedings, 170-180.
Meg actively participates in the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) History Section, serving as Chair from 2023-2025. She is also an active member of the Indiana University Committee on Historic Preservation, serving as Chair beginning in 2025. In this role, Meg collaborates with colleagues across the university and state to promote historic preservation through relevant programming, including the Cornelius O'Brien Lecture Series and Preserving Historic Places, Indiana's annual statewide conference on historic preservation.
Meg received her Master of Arts in History and Master of Library Science from Indiana University in 2015, and also holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from DePauw University (2011). Prior to joining the Libraries in 2024, she served as the Information Services Librarian & Archivist at Indiana University Kokomo and taught courses at the Indiana Women's Prison.