The GSLIS faculty have selected three scholars to be appointed research fellows from August 2015 to August 2017. GSLIS research fellows are chosen because their work is relevant to the interests of GSLIS faculty and students. Each will give at least one lecture during their appointment.
Nominated by Associate Professor Emerita Christine Jenkins and Associate Professor Carol Tilley is Denise Agosto, professor in Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics. Her research areas include information behavior, public libraries, social networks, gender, children, and teens.
Nominated by Professor Bertram Ludäscher is C. Titus Brown, associate professor of genetics at the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. His research interests include data-intensive biology, genomics, open science, and cyberinfrastructure.
Nominated by Associate Professor Terry Weech is Peter Lor, professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His research interests include international and comparative library and information studies, currently focusing on: research method and theory, international influence and policy borrowing in LIS, LIS development and information flows to and from developing countries, international organizations, and international political economy of information.