Adjuncts & Affiliates

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.

Barbara Alvarez

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; BA, History, Illinois

Research focus: I am interested in information access and information sharing, particularly communities of practice. I am studying reproductive health and information access in Latin America.

Jeanie Austin

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Library services to people who are incarcerated; policing, incarceration, and technologies of surveillance; racism and information access; LGBTQ+ library services; biometrics and datafication in prisons; and incarcerated people as information producers.

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.

Karen Baker

Research Affiliate

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MS, Physics, UCLA

Research focus: My research interests include data practices, scientific data work, participatory design, and collective learning. My work explores the dynamics of information environments, knowledge making, and research infrastructure growth.

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: Communication ethics, onomastic science.

Sara Benson

Adjunct Assistant Professor

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; JD, University of Houston; LLM, University of California, Berkeley

Research focus: Socio political implications of copyright in the U.S. and abroad.

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.

Carisse Berryhill

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, English, FSU; MS, Library Science, University of North Texas; MA, Church History, Harding University; MA, English, FSU

Research focus: History of American religious rhetoric.

Stephanie Besser

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Predictive Analytics, DePaul University; MS, Applied Statistics, MA, Criminal Justice and Criminology, Loyola University; MS, BS, Accountancy, BA, English, Sociology, John Carroll University

Research focus: Statistics and machine learning in business, social sciences, and medicine.

Kristina Bisbee

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, MA, Communications, Illinois; BA, Liberal Arts, The Evergreen State College

Research focus: Critical media theory, history of technology, web archiving, and information literacy.

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.

Jack Brighton

PhD, Information Sciences, Illinois (in progress)

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

BA, Communications, Illinois

Advisor: Martin Wolske
Research focus: I'm interested in information history, socio-technical design, and the origins and consequences of information systems. My research explores information systems and practices from a sociological perspective; the social, economic, and political context of their design, implementation, and governance; and the impact of historical and contemporary systems on human welfare and social justice.

Ian Brooks

Research Scientist

PhD, Bryn Mawr College

Research focus: Public and global health informatics, epidemiology, cyberinfrastructure, data analytics, and One Health.

Emilie Butt

MS, Library and Information Sciences, Illinois; BA, Political Science, Gender & Women's Studies, and Economics, Illinois

Research focus: Community engagement, youth library services, makerspaces and youth maker practices, new media and digital literacies, media analysis and critique, game design, and identity formation and performance

Dan Cermak

Adjunct Lecturer

BS, Medical Technology, James Madison University

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.

Michèle Cloonan

Research Associate

MS, PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois; AM, University of Chicago

Research focus: I study the cultural, political, technological, economic, and ethical dimensions of preservation. Recently I have started to explore the impact of social networking on attitudes about preservation.

Christopher Condill

Adjunct Lecturer

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

Christa Deacy-Quinn

Adjunct Lecturer

MA, Anthropology, Illinois; BA, Anthropology and Museum Studies, SUNY Oswego

Research focus: Artifact preservation; preventative conservation: Integrated Pest Management; environmental management; developing open source radiometers; exhibit design, installation, and artifact mount fabrication; packing and shipping; storage planning and implementation and custom artifact enclosures.

Linda Diekman

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, CAS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Kirstin Dougan Johnson

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.

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

Ryan Gan

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, San Jose State; BA, History, University of California, Berkeley

Research focus: Information systems, digital librarianship, and library technology.

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.

William Gropp

Affiliate Professor

PhD, MS, Computer Science, Stanford University; MS, Physics, University of Washington, Seattle

Research focus: High performance computing, including parallel I/O.

Benjamin Grosser

Affiliate Associate Professor

MFA, New Media, Illinois; MM, BM, Music Composition, Illinois

Research focus: Cultural effects of software, social media, surveillance, computer vision, computational agency, and data obfuscation.

Michael Haberman

Research Scientist

MS, Computer Science, Stanford University

Research focus: Stakeholder alignment in complex systems; education (and learning) at scale

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.

Merinda Hensley

Adjunct Associate Professor

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

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

Rebecca Hodson

Assistant Director of Career Services

Jeanne Holba-Puacz

Adjunct Lecturer

John Holton

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; BA, Anthropology, Illinois

Research focus: Artifact preservation and preventative conservation; artifact packing and shipping; collections storage design; project management and logistics; and environmental management and sustainability.

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.

Sharon Irish

Research Affiliate

PhD, Art History, Northwestern University

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.

Jacob Jett

Postdoctoral Research Associate

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

CAS (Digital Libraries), Illinois

Research focus: I employ formal methods to examine issues in the conceptual foundations of information access, organization, and retrieval, especially with regards to web and data semantics. Knowledge representation techniques and modeling exercises, such as ontology development and conceptual modeling, represent a sizable area of overlap in my research.

Barbara Jones

Research Affiliate

PhD, U.S. History, University of Minnesota; MLS, Columbia University; MAT, English, Northwestern University; MA, History & Archival Management, New York University

Research focus: Access to information; Freedom to Read and other First Amendment issues like privacy, censorship, et al.; Information Poverty; News Literacy; Library Policy. I am currently working on a book, Information Poverty in Chicago.

Jimi Jones

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Research focus: My research focuses on standards for moving image digitization—the social aspects of their design, the technical choices that drive their development and the decision-making processes of large and small cultural heritage repositories when picking an encoding/container combination for digitizing legacy video materials.

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

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.

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.

Katie Chamberlain Kritikos

Adjunct Lecturer

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

Research focus: Information policy, information ethics, free speech, privacy, and libraries.

Elizabeth LaRue

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Library Science, University of Pittsburgh; MLS, Library Science University of Pittsburgh; BA, Journalism, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Research focus: Behavioral health, personality and digital design; mobile technologies for good; health informatics; and consumer health literacy.

Joyce Latham

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois; MLIS, University of Maryland

Research focus: What makes public libraries matter in their communities.

Mark Lopez

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Studies, BS, Psychology, Florida State University

Research focus: MARC and non-MARC metadata, open access, digital content management, electronic resources management, and scripting and automation.

Karla Lucht

Assistant Director of MS/LIS Advising

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.

Thomas MacMullen

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Technology, Computer Technology, Eastern Illinois University

Research focus: Home automation, computer virtualization, and database technology.

Alaine Martaus

Research Development Coordinator

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

Research focus: Digital citizenship and information literacy in secondary schools.

Amanda McLellan

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Information technology in libraries, usability and accessibility

Benjamin Mead-Harvey

Adjunct Lecturer

MBA, North Dakota State University; MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: My professional interests include personnel management, financial management, and process improvement. In my free time, I write a blog about effective management techniques: www.better-boss.com.

Zahra Mohaghegh

Affiliate Assistant Professor

PhD, MS, Reliability Engineering, University of Maryland

David Mussulman

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; BS, Computer Science, Illinois

Research focus: Information technology; IT communications; diversity, equity and inclusion; and mindfulness practice and education.

Caroline Nappo

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD and MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: History of libraries and information provision, information as a public good, intellectual freedom.

Siva Ratna Kumari Narisetti

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Informatics, Illinois; MS, Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia

Research focus: Human-Computer Interaction, user research, data analytics, database management, machine learning, web development, data science, and bioinformatics. My PhD dissertation focused on understanding the utility of agricultural mobile applications among Indian rural farmers.

Melissa Newell

Director of Undergraduate Affairs

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

Adjunct Lecturer

Megan Oliver

Adjunct Lecturer

MS in Library and Information Science, BA in Anthropolgy and English Literature, University of South Florida

Research focus: Digital accessibility, ethics and inclusivity in labor practice, ethics in metadata, public engagement with special collections, and user experience (UX) design.

Brynnen Owen

Assistant Director of Core Systems

Kate Quealy-Gainer

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

Bethany Radcliffe

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, MA, Journalism, Indiana University; BA, English, Millersville University

Research focus: Marketing libraries; information literacy.

Philip Reiter

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Management Information Systems, University of Illinois at Springfield; BS, Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

Lian Ruan

Research Affiliate

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Information behavior, special library administration, and international librarianship.

Adam Rusch

Adjunct Lecturer

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.

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.

David Sepkoski

Affiliate Professor

PhD, History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota

Research focus: History of data collection, analysis, and visualization in the natural sciences; history of information technology; science and technology studies; digital culture; digital humanities.

Ruth Shasteen

School Librarian Program Coordinator

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 Smalheiser

Affiliate 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.

Maria Souden

Research Affiliate

PhD, Information, University of Michigan

Deborah Stevenson

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

PhD, University of Chicago

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

Zachary Stier

Adjunct Lecturer

EdD, Educational Leadership, Concordia University Chicago; MEd, Early Childhood, Concordia University Portland; MLIS, Drexel University

Research focus: Family engagement systems, early literacy, the development of community partnerships, programs for disability populations, innovative learning practices (virtual and augmented reality), equity and libraries, and community dialogues.

Aiko Takazawa

Adjunct Lecturer

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 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.

Tony Torres

Academic Advisor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Affairs

Daniel Tracy

Affiliate Assistant Professor

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

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

John Vincler

Adjunct Lecturer

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, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Research focus: Conservation materials research; technical aspects related to the care, handling and installation of art and artifacts; advanced rigging techniques; exhibition and gallery site protocols; conservation framing; conservation museum lighting; disaster response for museums and cultural heritage institutions; gallery and exhibition design; ADA design; oddy testing; international crating design and standards; art couriering; safe storage of works of art and objects.

Michael Wonderlich

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Computer Science, Kansas State University

Research focus: Data warehousing, business intelligence, predictive analytics, data lakes, and data storage.

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.

Abigail Wooldridge

Affiliate Assistant Professor

PhD, Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research focus: Design of complex sociotechnical systems, primarily in healthcare settings, using mixed methods approaches to improve outcomes.

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.