Steve Witt

Dr. Steve Witt is a Professor and Head of the International and Area Studies Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also serves as Director of the Center for Global Studies. As a subject specialist for Global Studies and Japanese, he bridges library science with international academic collaboration.

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• International and Area Studies Library
• Center for Global Studies
• European Union Center
• Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies

His research examines global information networks through historical lenses, focusing on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's role in shaping internationalist thought through library collections. Current projects include analyzing Imperial Japan's contributions to early 20th-century internationalism and developing digital humanities methodologies to study the CEIP's curated book corpus.

Publications highlight his expertise in privacy evolution within library associations, resource sharing for area studies, and sustainable library practices. He serves as editor for IFLA Journal, promoting translational research between theory and practice.