Paul Duguid
Adjunct Professor Emeritus
Focus
Research areas
Biography
Current Research
The history of information, in particular topics of information and authenticity. From a historical perspective: how we come to trust information we encounter and how we led credibility to information we share and what role brands and other forms of certification play.
See Information: A Historical Companion (2021), and Information: A Short History (2024). Both co-edited with Profs. Anthony Grafton (Princeton), Ann Blair (Harvard), and Anja Goeing (Zurich). Princeton University Press.
Other Research
Climate change and business history. The field of business history has been slow to investigate climate change, but in recent years there has been a surge of new work in this area. With other historians in the field I have worked to assemble a collection of current work on the topic. For that collection I investigated the history of public relations and its role in "greenwashing."
See Climate Change and Business, Teresa da Silva Lopes, Robert Fredona & Paul Duguid, eds. Routledge, forthcoming, 2025.
Education
BA, English & Philosophy, Bristol University, UK, 1976
MA, English Literature, Washington University, St. Louis, 1980
What is the best thing about working at the I School?
Multidisciplinary faculty and students.
What Information issues interests you most?
Questions of authenticity of information.