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Core FacultyOur exceptional faculty includes nationally recognized, award-winning, innovative teachers and researchers, who combine strong teaching skills with specialty expertise. They are regularly included on the university's lists of "teachers rated excellent by their students," and are active researchers: each of our full-time faculty members has served as principal investigator for at least one grant-funded project in the last two years. GSLIS students have the opportunity to learn not only from our tenure-system faculty (listed below), but also from other expert practitioners, including a strong team of adjunct faculty, affiliated faculty, emeritus faculty members, and Ph.D. student teaching assistants. Abdul Alkalimat (McWorter)
Professor Research InterestsDigital inequality, community informatics, and African American intellectual history. More detail...Ann Bishop
Associate Professor Research InterestsUse and impact of computer-based information systems; social equity in access to information; human-centered approaches to designing and evaluating information systems. More detail...Alistair Black
Professor Research InterestsHistory of libraries, librarianship, and information professionalism; of information and knowledge management; of the information society and information in daily life. More detail...Catherine Blake
Associate Professor Research InterestsText mining, information synthesis, collaborative information behaviors, recognizing textual entailment, summarization, evidence-based discovery, meta-analysis. More detail...Chip Bruce
Professor Research InterestsCommunity informatics; environments to support inquiry-based learning; collaboration in knowledge making; new literacy practices. More detail...Susan G. Davis
Professor Research InterestsThe role and significance of vernacular culture; the ethnography of commercial culture; the politics of culture and cultural research. More detail...J. Stephen Downie
Associate Professor Research InterestsDesign and evaluation of IR systems, including multimedia music information retrieval; the political economy of internetworked communication systems; database design; Web-based technologies. More detail...David Dubin
Research Associate Professor Research InterestsThe foundations of information representation and description. Issues of expression and encoding in documents and digital information resources. More detail...Miles Efron
Assistant Professor Research InterestsInformation retrieval; text mining; computational modeling of subjective aspects of documents (e.g., bias, emotion, opinion); information access in specialized domains, such as institutional repositories, and in mobile settings. More detail...Jon Gant
Associate Professor Research InterestsElectronic government, information technology and organization design; social networks, knowledge management, and information technology; strategic management of information systems; and geospatial technologies. More detail...Les Gasser
Professor Research InterestsCoordination of information; coordination theory/tools; multiagent systems; manufacturing research; intensive industry liaison; R&D project management. More detail...Caroline Haythornthwaite
Professor Research InterestsComputer-mediated communication (CMC) and the Internet; information exchange via CMC; online communities; e-learning; social network analysis; collaboration; social informatics; community informatics More detail...Christine Jenkins
Associate Professor and Director, CTR for Children's Books Research InterestsHistory of youth services librarianship as women's history; censorship and intellectual freedom issues; representations of minority-status groups in children's and young adult literature; reading engagement; reader-response research, and the reader-text interaction. More detail...Lori Kendall
Associate Professor Research InterestsOnline community and identity; the social aspects of computing; and gender and technology. More detail...Kathryn La Barre
Assistant Professor Research InterestsInformation organization and access systems and structures; interactions between theoretical approaches in information organization and access and current practices in digital environments; historical and theoretical foundations of library and information science; cognitive processing of information; category and concept formation. More detail...W. John MacMullen
Assistant Professor Research InterestsBiomedical informatics; health sciences librarianship; human information interaction; scholarly communication. More detail...Bonnie Mak
Assistant Professor Research InterestsThe interpenetration of manuscript, print, and digital cultures; the cultural production and circulation of knowledge; palaeography and diplomatics; manuscript studies; book history; medieval and early modern collecting; history of archives and libraries More detail...Jerome McDonough
Assistant Professor Research InterestsDigital libraries; digital preservation; metadata design; human-computer interaction and user interface design; socio-technical and participatory design approaches to information systems development. More detail...Kate McDowell
Assistant Professor Research InterestsLibrary services for youth; literature for children and young adults; history of gender in children's librarianship; gender in children's literature; technology in youth services librarianship; distance education pedagogy. More detail...Carole Palmer
Professor and Director, CIRSS Research Interestsinformation use in scientific and scholarly work; technologies to support interdisciplinary research, scientific discovery, and inquiry in the humanities; impact of interoperability efforts on the use of digital collections. More detail...Allen Renear
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research Research InterestsHow digital documents function as knowledge representation systems: developing models of how documents organize and structure knowledge and then exploring how these models can improve document-intensive applications such as digital libraries, scientific collaboration systems, publishing systems, educational technology, and humanities textbases. More detail...Dan Schiller
Professor Research InterestsTelecommunications history; information policy; role of cultural production in the socioeconomic development of the market system. More detail...Linda C. Smith
Professor and Associate Dean Research InterestsInformation system design; education for library and information science; impact of new technologies on reference and information services. More detail...Deborah Stevenson
Asst Professor & Editor, Bulletin of the Ctr for Children's Research InterestsChildren's literature and contemporary culture; history of children's literature; genre theory. More detail...Carol Tilley
Assistant Professor Research InterestsHistory of youth services librarianship, children's print culture, information inquiry and instruction in school libraries, and media literacy. More detail...Vetle Torvik
Visiting Assistant Professor Research InterestsMathematical optimization; computational statistics; text and data mining; literature-based discovery; bioinformatics. More detail...Michael Twidale
Professor Research InterestsComputer-supported cooperative working and learning; collaborative technologies in digital libraries and museums; user interface design and evaluation; user error analysis; visualization of information and algorithms; the development of interfaces to support the articulation of plans, goals, and beliefs. More detail...John Unsworth
Dean Research InterestsHumanities computing; digital libraries; electronic publishing. More detail...Terry L. Weech
Associate Professor Research InterestsCollection management; evaluation of library services; library education; library cooperation and networking. More detail...Kate Williams
Assistant Professor Research InterestsThe relationship between social networks, social capital, and the use of information and communications technology, particularly in low-income communities. More detail... |
HEADLINESFor Improving Early Literacy, Reading Comics is No Child's Play Alumnus Receives Award for Leadership and Service UPCOMING EVENTSBeta Phi Mu, Alpha Chapter Annual Meeting (Nov 7) Media Life: The Experience of Love, Sex & Death in Digital Culture (Nov 9) ASIS&T Annual Conference (Nov 9) Policy: City Government (Nov 12) ALA Library Science Film Night (Nov 17) Thesis/Dissertation Deposit Workshop: New Requirements for Fall 2009 (Nov 18) |
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