Erin Ackerman is the Social Sciences Librarian and an adjunct professor in the Political Science Department at The College of New Jersey. She formerly taught political science at John Jay College, the City University of New York. Her research and teaching interests include American law and politics, gender and politics, and information literacy in the social sciences. Her research has appeared in several academic journals, including the Journal of Academic Librarianship and Law & Society Review. She is also the author of a chapter in They Say / I Say on writing in the social sciences.