Melissa Adler
Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at Western University, author of Peculiar Satisfaction and Cruising the Library, specializing in libraries, archives, museums, and critical classification studies.
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Jan 27, 2026 • 54min
Melissa Adler, "Peculiar Satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson and the Mastery of Subjects" (Fordham UP, 2025)
Melissa Adler, Associate Professor at Western University and author of Peculiar Satisfaction, studies libraries, archives, and classification. She traces how Jefferson’s library and archival practices shaped classification, racialized knowledge, and museum objectification. The conversation highlights preservation as power, the persistence of exclusion in information systems, and the stakes for democracy and public institutions.
