Robert Soucek

Robert Soucek is a current M.L.I.S. student with an Archival concentration at the Kent iSchool, holding a B.A. in history from John Carroll University. Accompanying Robert’s enrollment in the iSchool M.L.I.S. program, he is heavily engaged in family history and biography-writing, having carried out biographical research on three unpublished independent studies since undergrad. Those three research studies include the lives of Rev. John Mundweil, a Cleveland Hungarian-American priest; Ge Linrui, a Macanese (Dutch-Chinese) diplomat, cataloger and proto-L.I.S. scholar; and his current research on Dr. Jiro Horikoshi, the Japanese WWII aviation engineer and designer of the Mitsubishi A6M, “Zero.”

Additionally, Robert has engaged in four stages of research since 2023 at the Cleveland Irish American Society as a research intern in conjunction with the Cleveland Irishtown Bend Park project, dedicated to researching the public and family history of the historic Irishtown Bend neighborhood of Cleveland. Throughout his L.I.S. research, he has been interested in how family history and biography can be used to primarily connect communities to the library, crafting legacies and making heroes for individuals and communities often less spoken of.