Kevin S. Rioux

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Associate Professor

Library and Information Science
St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

St. John's University

Kevin S. Rioux is an Associate Professor in the Division of Library and Information Science in St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at St. John's University. He is also a Senior Vincentian Research Fellow. His research focuses on social justice issues related to information access and information technologies as tools of social and economic development in local and international contexts. He has lectured and presented internationally on needs, seeking, and use of information literacy and information access. Dr. Rouix holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Academic Background

  • Ph.D., Library and Information Science, The University of Texas at Austin

Research Interests

  • Social justice issues related to information access
  • Information technologies as tools of social and economic development in both local and international contexts
  • Models of human information behavior.

Affiliation with the Center

Senior Vincentian Research Fellow,
Class of 2005

"Being a Vincentian Research Fellow has allowed for close collaboration on social justice projects with a number of knowledgeable colleagues. These projects have vastly expanded my awareness and conceptions of social justice work' ideas which I readily bring into the classroom."

Food for Thought

Catholic universities will be particularly attentive to the poorest and to those who suffer economic, social, cultural or religious injustice. This responsibility begins within the academic community but it also finds application beyond it.

Pope John Paul II, Ex Corde Ecclesiae (40)