Adjunct & Affiliated Faculty

Scott Althaus

Affiliate Professor

PhD, Political Science, Northwestern University

Research focus: Communication processes that support political accountability in democratic societies and empower political discontent in non-democratic ones, popular support for war, data science methods for extreme-scale analysis of news coverage, cross-national comparative research on political communication, psychology of information processing, communication concepts in democratic theory.

Susan Avery

Adjunct Associate Professor

MILS, University of Michigan; MM, University of Minnesota

Research focus: Assessment of library instruction and chat reference, international students and information literacy instruction, library/writing center collaboration.

John Bambenek

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Springfield

Research focus: Data mining threat intelligence data and performing online surveillance of criminal infrastructure to provide near-time and real-time intelligence products to protect customers and aid in criminal investigations.

Anne Barnhart

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MA, Religion, Latin American/Caribbean Studies, Indiana University

Atoma Batoma

Adjunct Associate Professor

PhD, University of Liege, Belgium; MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Onomastic sciences and philosophy of language.

Sidney Berger

Adjunct Professor

PhD, Iowa; MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Rare book librarianship; book history; history, technique, and materials of papermaking; printing on a handpress; Medieval English literature; enumerative, descriptive, historical, and textual bibliography.

Rhiannon Bettivia

Postdoctoral Research Associate

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Digital preservation

Jordan Bohall

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Philosophy, Illinois

Nigel Bosch

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, University of Notre Dame

Research focus: My research employs machine learning to model human emotion, engagement, and learning, with a special focus on the fair treatment of students who are members of underrepresented groups.

Bobby Bothmann

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; MS, Cross-disciplinary Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Research focus: Competencies and teaching of cataloging and classification, use of related works and expressions in RDA cataloging, cataloging of audio-visual and electronic resources.

Rachael Bradley

Adjunct Lecturer

Elizabeth (Betty) Bush

Adjunct Lecturer

MLS, Dominican University; MA, Governors State University

Peter Bushell

Adjunct Lecturer

M.F.A., School of Art+Design, Illinois

Dan Cermak

Adjunct Lecturer

BS, Medical Technology, James Madison University

Anita Say Chan

Affiliate Associate Professor

PhD, History and Anthropology of Science and Technology Studies, MIT

Research focus: Science and technology studies, globalization and innovation economies, critical data studies, data ethics and cultures.

Clara Chu

Affiliate Professor

PhD, MS, Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario

Research focus: Multicultural library and information services, information seeking behavior, critical information studies, international and comparative librarianship, LIS education.

Tim Cole

Affiliate Professor

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Metadata, digital collections and content interoperability, digital library system design and implementation.

Aaron Collie

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Scholarly communication topics such as digital repositories, research data management, open access, electronic theses, dissertations; organizational change; workforce development; and agile management practices in libraries.

Kit Condill

Adjunct Assistant Professor

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Bibliography and publishing history of the non-Slavic peoples of Central Eurasia; discoverability of resources in non-Latin scripts in library catalogs.

Melissa Cragin

Affiliate Assistant Professor

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MLIS, Rutgers

Research focus: Scientific and scholarly production and communication; data curation and stewardship; scientific data collections; science policy.

Anne Craig

Adjunct Lecturer

MA, Library and Information Studies, Northern Illinois University

Linda Diekman

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, CAS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Kirstin Dougan

Adjunct Associate Professor

MALS, UW Madison; MA, Music, Ball State University

Research focus: Music information seeking behavior, music research tools, and music library services.

Damian Duffy

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Karen Egan

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Research focus: Professional development; information literacy; advancing access to library resources and services.

Quinn Morgan Ferris

Adjunct Lecturer

MA, Art History, Advanced Certificate in Conservation, NYU

Research focus: Collaborative education models in special collections; modular cultural heritage education programs; treatment of transitory documents; book and paper conservation treatment; conservation advocacy and outreach; diversity, equity and inclusion for representation in conservation of cultural heritage.

Susan Frankenberg

Research Affiliate

PhD, MA, Anthropology, Northwestern University; BA, Anthropology, Indiana University

Research focus: Organizational behavior of museums with respect to stakeholder needs, user studies, cultural policies, business models and global contexts; museum informatics, collections data confederation, and issues in archaeological curation; Bayesian-based estimation methods and informed modeling of age, demography, health and migration in past and current human populations

Jeff Ginger

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Digital literacy, community informatics, public engagement, makerspaces, learning, user experience design.

John Gough

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MA, French Literature, New York University

Research focus: Fundraising analytics, donor behaviors/behavioral modeling, data visualization.

Julia Hart

Adjunct Lecturer

EdD, Curriculum and Instruction, Illinois; MIS, University of Illinois at Springfield

Research focus: Integrating technology into education, knowledge management strategies and technologies, data science, and exploring emerging technologies for the workplace.

Tatum Hawkins

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Mathematics, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Paul Healey

Adjunct Associate Professor

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois; JD, University of Iowa; MA, Library and Information Science, University of Iowa; BA, Psychology, University of Dubuque

Research focus: Uncertainty management in libraries, information seeking by self-represented litigants, law librarian responses to self-represented litigant information needs.

Merinda Hensley

Adjunct Associate Professor

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Information literacy, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, and critical reflection.

Jeanne Holba-Puacz

Adjunct Lecturer

David Hopping

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Sociology, Illinois

Research focus: Social and community informatics, sociological theory of human rights, relational sociology, action research and public policy relating to digital inclusion and digital literacy.

Brant Houston

Affiliate Professor

BA, Bennington College

Research focus: Nonprofit journalism newsrooms, digital tools for news-gathering, and new business models for journalism.

Andrew Huot

Adjunct Lecturer

MFA, The University of the Arts

Research focus: Conservation and preservation, history of the book, artists' books.

Laila Hussein Moustafa

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Affiliate Professor

MS, Library and Information Science; Master of Education, Illinois

Research focus: Teaching and learning, higher education, globalization, information literacy, library assessment/evaluation, and library quality.

Karrie Karahalios

Affiliate Professor

PhD, Media Arts and Sciences; ME, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Research focus: Sociable media design; visualization; assistive communication technologies; computer mediated communication; social network analysis; online community building; empathy online; cues and signals in our networked environment.

Daniel Katz

Affiliate Research Associate Professor

PhD, Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University

Research focus: Development and use of advanced cyberinfrastructure to solve challenging problems at multiple scale. Technical: Applications, algorithms, fault tolerance, and programming in parallel and distributed computing. Policy: citation and credit mechanisms and practices associated with software and data, organization and community practices for collaboration, and career paths for computing researchers.

Daniel Keding

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, English, University of Illinois at Springfield

Research focus: Researching and publishing topic-based collections of traditional folktales.

Ellen Knutson

Adjunct Assistant Professor

PhD, MS Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: The role of cultural institutions in democratic society, including the theory and practice of community engagement, as well as the ways that cultural exchange builds global understanding.

Diane Kovacs

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MEd Kent State University

Research focus: Instructional design; web usability; electronic collection development.

Katie Chamberlain Kritikos

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; JD, Illinois

Research focus: Information law and policy with a focus on free speech, privacy, and feminist and social issues.

Nicolas LaLone

Postdoctoral Research Associate

PhD Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University; MA, Sociology, Texas State University,

Research focus: Human-computer interaction (HCI), citizen science, and crisis informatics.

Jessica LeCrone

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Reference, library administration, youth librarianship, public librarianship.

Jeff Limp

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Illinois; MBA, Lewis University

Research focus: Change management and leadership, marketing (digital applications).

Charles Linville

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Research focus: Identifying idle cropland across the surface of the Earth. Commercial efforts are centered on taking Geography-as-a-Service products to market; businesses use these products, such as Ploughman’s FarmPlace®, to decide where to buy, sell, or act.

Karla Lucht

Graduate Studies Advisor

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois (in progress); MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; BA, English Studies, Illinois State University

Research focus: Multicultural representation and social justice advocacy in library collections and services for youth (or lack thereof) and conflicts of race, ethnicity, and culture in youth literature.

Scott Matheson

Adjunct Lecturer

JD, MS, Library and Information Science, University of Washington; MPA, University of Connecticut

Research focus: Dissemination and preservation of government information, information policy.

Kristen Mattson

Adjunct Lecturer

Ed.D. (Curriculum and Instructional Leadership), Northern Illinois University

Research focus: Critical discourse analysis, digital citizenship education, and media and information literacy.

Amanda McLellan

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Information technology in libraries, usability and accessibility

Benjamin Mead-Harvey

Adjunct Lecturer

Nicole Wedemeyer Miller

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MA, English, Northern Illinois University

Research focus: How information providers can work with genealogists in a variety of settings.

Debra Mitts-Smith

Adjunct Assistant Professor

PhD, MS Library and Information Science, Illinois; MA, BA, University of Illinois at Chicago

Research focus: Children's and young adult literature, especially the use of visual images, and library history; current research projects include a book history of Kipling's The Jungle Books, a history of the children's libraries in Brussels from 1920-1940, a look at gaming and inquiry based learning via Wolfquest, and an examination of internationalism in picture books from the 1920s and 1930s.

Zahra Mohaghegh

Affiliate Assistant Professor

PhD, MS, Reliability Engineering, University of Maryland

Mark Moran

Adjunct Lecturer

SM, MIT; MBA, University of Iowa

Research focus: IoT, precision agriculture, data visualization, enterprise transformation, services, innovation, social networks, text-mining, and natural language processing.

David Mussulman

Adjunct Lecturer

Research focus: Information technology

Jill Naiman

Adjunct Lecturer

Steve Oberg

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Best practices for integrating offline and online library collections, improving methods of scholarly communication, open access, open source software, and information organization.

Ann Ohms

School Librarian Program Coordinator

Brynnen Owen

Assistant Director of Core Systems

Imani Palmer

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Computer Science, Illinois

Research focus: I have a profound passion for security and privacy research. My key research focuses on the science of security.

Dennis Quinn

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library Science, University of North Texas

Research focus: Library administration, future/developing bibliographic metadata systems, and user interface design.

Nicole Ream-Sotomayor

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MA, Divinity (Hebrew Bible), University of Chicago

Zoe Revell

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science

Research focus: Professional development and training, reference, library administration and management.

Heidi Rhea

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Adam Rusch

Melissa Salrin

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, MA, History, Illinois

Research focus: User services, outreach, politics of the archival project

Bruce Schatz

Affiliate Professor

PhD, University of Arizona

Research focus: Digital libraries, electronic communities, information infrastructure, health informatics, bioinformatics, healthcare infrastructure.

Fred Schlipf

Adjunct Professor

MA, PhD, Graduate Library School, University of Chicago

Research focus: Library Buildings

Scott Schwartz

Adjunct Associate Professor

Master of Music Education and History, Michigan State

Research focus: Preserving America's music heritage, American popular music, the music and culture of the Appalachian serpent-handling communities of rural Kentucky.

Ruth Shasteen

Adjunct Lecturer

CAS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MS, Education (Information Sciences and Technology), Eastern Illinois University

Research focus: School librarianship, particularly leadership, technology integration, and library information specialist licensure preparation.

Beth Shoemaker

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; DMA, University of Oregon; MM, Arizona State University

Research focus: Rare item cataloging, cataloging education, artists’ books, rare book collection development.

Neil R. Smalheiser

Affiliate Associate Professor

MD, PhD (Neuroscience), Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Research focus: Knowledge discovery, text mining, medical informatics, evidence synthesis, bioinformatics, neuroscience, psychiatry, data literacy, reproducibility in science.

Yoo-Seong Song

Affiliate Associate Professor

MSI, University of Michigan; MBA, University of Iowa

Research focus: Consulting, knowledge management, information seeking behavior, business research applications, information management.

Deborah Stevenson

Director, Center for Children's Books; Editor, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books; Assistant Professor

PhD, University of Chicago

Research focus: Children's literature and contemporary culture; history of children's literature; genre theory.

Jennifer Hain Teper

Adjunct Professor

MSLIS-CAS in Library and Archives Conservation, University of Texas at Austin

Research focus: Preservation prioritization in light of shared print retention and digitization, large scale conservation applications to research library collections.

Lynne M. Thomas

Adjunct Associate Professor

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MA, English & American Literature, Northern Illinois University

Research focus: Rare Books and Special Collections Librarianship; Rare Books and Special Collections Administration; popular culture; and digital preservation.

Mary Wilkes Towner

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Public libraries, readers' advisory, and leisure reading for adults.

Daniel G. Tracy

Affiliate Assistant Professor

MS, Library and Information Science & PhD, English, Illinois

Research focus: Information behavior, digital publishing, user experience, scholarly communications, digital humanities.

Kevin Trainor

Adjunct Senior Lecturer

MBA, The University of Chicago

Research focus: Ontologies for data curation in science and the humanities, best practices for data curation, applications of semantic technologies (Topic Maps and RDF/OWL) to data curation and digital libraries, interchange standards for the exchange of digital document annotations.

Richard Urban

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MA/Museum Studies Certificate, University of Delaware

Research focus: The intersection of museum, libraries, and archives; museum informatics; metadata; user experience; digital libraries; and digital humanities.

Virgil Varvel

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Anke Voss

Adjunct Lecturer

MSLS, Albany (SUNY); MA, Massachusetts

Research focus: Community archives, women's archives.

Shaowen Wang

Affiliate Professor

PhD, Geography, University of Iowa

Research focus: Advanced cyberinfrastructure and cyberGIS, complex environmental and geospatial problems, computational and data sciences, geographic information science and systems (GIS), high-performance parallel and distributed computing, spatial analysis and modeling.

John Wilkin

Affiliate Professor

MLS, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; MA, English, University of Virginia

Research focus: Large-scale digitization for preservation and access, digital libraries, legal issues related to digitized content, library administration.

Walter Wilson

Adjunct Lecturer

BFA, SAIC

Steven Witt

Adjunct Associate Professor

PhD, MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Trajectory and impacts of international developments in library and information science, placing global trends in librarianship and knowledge production in a historical context with wider social and technological developments.

Michael Wonderlich

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Computer Science, Kansas State University

Research focus: Business intelligence, data warehousing, databases.

Melissa Wong

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Reference, instruction, online learning.

Beth Woodard

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; BA, English, Illinois Wesleyan University

Research focus: Reference training, instruction in libraries, evaluation of reference services.

Gretchen Zaitzeff

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: School librarianship, educational technology, and management of school libraries.

ChengXiang Zhai

Affiliate Professor

PhD, Language and Information Technologie, Carnegie Mellon University; PhD, Computer Science, Nanjing University

Research focus: Intelligent information systems, information retrieval, data mining, natural language processing, machine learning, biomedical and health informatics, intelligent educational systems.