Susan Burke

Associate Professor

Program Director, Museum Studies

Email: sburke@ou.edu
Office: Bizzell Library 26
Campus: Norman

Susan K. Burke is currently the Program Director for the Master of Arts in Museum Studies and was formerly the Director of the University of Oklahoma's School of Library and Information Studies from 2016-2023. She has been a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma since 2004. Her primary teaching area is research methods and she has taught this topic at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels. She has an MLIS degree and was a professional librarian in academic and public libraries before returning to graduate school for a Ph.D. in Sociology followed by a career in academia.

Courses Commonly Taught:

LIS 5033 Information and Society
LIS 5043 Organization of Information
LIS 5173 Diversity Fundamentals in LIS
LIS 5713 Research and Evaluation Methods
LIS 5970 Academic Librarianship

For a current listing of courses please visit: https://classnav.ou.edu/

Research Areas:

Libraries and society
Classic sociological issues (race/ethnicity, gender, social assumptions) within the context of LIS
Social factors in the organization of information