Adjuncts & Affiliates

Ann Abney

Adjunct Lecturer

MLS, MA, History, University of Maryland, College Park; BA, History, Carroll University

Research focus: Archival literacy, state-sponsored memory through history textbooks, and disability in the archives.

Amira Al-Mutairi

Academic Advisor and Coordinator of Graduate Affairs for MSIM and MS BIO

Bradly Alicea

Adjunct Lecturer

Abdul Alkalimat (McWorter)

Professor Emeritus

PhD, Sociology, University of Chicago

Research focus: Digital inequality, community informatics, and African American intellectual history.

Suzan Alteri

Assistant Director of the Center for Children's Books

Naomi Alterman

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, BS, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Research focus: Inclusive pedagogy at entrances to the STEM learning pipeline in postsecondary education, and how to build engineering communities of practice.

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

PhD, Information Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison; MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; BA, History, Illinois

Research focus: Information access and reproductive health

Matt Archer

Coordinator of Academic and Student Affairs for PhD

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.

Duncan Baird

Game Studies and Design Instructor

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.

Yikun Ban

Postdoctoral Research Associate

PhD, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

MS, Computer Science, Peking University, China

BS, School of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, China

Research focus: Reinforcement learning and data mining

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

Affiliate Associate 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.

Dawn Betts-Green

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Library and Information Studies; MLIS; Bachelor's in Women's Studies; Bachelor's in Religion; Bachelor's in English (Creative Writing), Florida State University

Research focus: Radical librarianship, social justice librarianship, children's and young adult literature, LGBTQIA+ issues in LIS and libraries, intellectual freedom, and information literacy.

Lisa Bievenue

Director of Informatics Programs

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.

Wayne Bivens-Tatum

Adjunct Lecturer

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

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

PhD, University of Maryland College Park; MS, Illinois

Research focus: Using online communities and crowd sourcing to address accessibility issues; the intersection of usability and accessibility in the digital and physical world.

Ian Brooks

Research Scientist and Director, Center for Health Informatics

PhD, Bryn Mawr College

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

Emilie Butt

Informatics Instruction and Engagement Coordinator

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

Paula Carns

Affiliate Associate Professor

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; PhD, Art History (Medieval), Illinois

Research focus: My research has two foci. For many years I have studied the intersection of art and literature in the context of medieval oral culture and often with regards to domestic objects. Lately I have turned my attention to the role of images, especially courtly ones, in medieval devotional manuscripts.

Clara M. Chu

Affiliate Professor

PhD, MLS, University of Western Ontario

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

Caitlin Clarke

Affiliate Teaching Assistant Professor

PhD, Kinesiology and Community Health, BA, Anthropology and the Classics, University of Illinois

Research focus: Sociology of health, sport, and play; sociology of mental health; science and technology studies; critical public health; and syndemics.

Stacy Clemmons

Academic Advisor and Coordinator of Graduate Affairs for MSIM and MS BIO

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.

Anita Coleman

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MSEd, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Technology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; MSLIS and BA, English Literature, University of Madras, India

Research focus: I study the digital, ethical, indigenous, legal, and socio-cultural dimensions of knowledge organization. Recently I have been investigating the representation of global anti-racism in information systems and knowledge structures.

Kit 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

Jarrett Dapier

Adjunct Lecturer

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.

Robert DeCandido

Adjunct Lecturer

Linda Diekman

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, CAS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Jana Diesner

Affiliate Associate Professor

PhD, Computation, Organizations, and Society, Carnegie Mellon University

Research focus: Human-centered data science, computational social science, network science, natural language processing, machine learning, data regulations, crisis informatics, impact assessment.

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.

Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Syracuse University; BA, Interdisciplinary Humanities, University of San Diego

Research focus: Knowledge equity; information literacy; community outreach; internationalization of the curriculum; and professional development in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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

John Gallagher

Affiliate Associate Professor

PhD, Rhetoric and Composition, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research focus: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, technical writing, technical communication, internet culture, and power users.

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.

Jeff Ginger

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois

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

Brooklyne Gipson

PhD, MA, Communication & MS, Digital Social Media, University of Southern California; BA, History and Afro-American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Research focus: Black feminist digital/technology studies and the intersection of race, gender, social media, and power.

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.

Ben Grosser

Affiliate 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

Jim Hahn

Advisor: Bertram Ludäscher
Research focus: Syntax, grammar(s), and semantics of knowledge organization structures; contextual uses of language as meaning; the metadata description as a linguistic domain; information retrieval as primarily linguistic activity; development of automation and semi-automation by knowledge workers; community developed and supported algorithms.

Iftikhar Haider

Dominique Hallett

Adjunct Lecturer

MLIS, Louisiana State University; MA, Heritage Studies, and BA, Political Science, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro

Research focus: Government information, cultural heritage, and science librarianship.

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.

Jeanne Holba-Puacz

Adjunct Lecturer

Amber Holmes

Assistant Director for Academic Affairs

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.

Valerie Hotchkiss

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, MA, MPhil, Medieval Studies, Yale University; MLS, Southern Connecticut State University; Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Tübingen; BA, Classics, University of Cincinnati

Research focus: Special collections librarianship and the cultural history of books and printing. Author of books and articles on medieval culture, women's studies, and book history. Currently writing a book on the history of the female pope.

Brant Houston

Affiliate Professor

BA, Bennington College

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

Yuerong Hu

Advisor: J. Stephen Downie
Research focus: My research centers on critical cultural data analytics, which combines theories from digital humanities, cultural analytics, critical data studies, and sociotechnical systems to study cultural data provisions. Specifically, I investigate digitized publications in print curated by digital libraries and user-generated book reviews online.

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 Associate Professor

MA, History of Near Eastern Studies, New York University; MLS, Long Island University

Research focus: Cultural heritage preservation, data management, bibliography of Africa, digital humanities, and decolonizing knowledge.

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.

Christine Jenkins

Associate Professor Emerita

PhD, Library and Information Studies, Wisconsin-Madison

Research focus: History of children's literature; history of youth services librarianship as women's history; historical and contemporary censorship and intellectual freedom; young adult literature; representations of minority-status groups in children's and young adult literature; reading engagement; reader-response research; reader-text interaction.

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 and collections.

Sarah C. Johnson

Adjunct Lecturer

MLIS, Long Island University; MSW, University of Denver

Research focus: The intersection of social work students conducting their field placements at public libraries; The professional experiences of academic librarians who liaise with social work departments; The intersection of values and ethics between librarianship and social work.

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.

Daniel Keding

Adjunct Lecturer

MA, English, University of Illinois at Springfield

Research focus: My interests are focused on traditional folktales & fairy tales. Also, the use of storytelling in various public areas. I am currently working on two more books.

Kiona Kittl

Academic Advisor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Affairs

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, libraries and society.

Kathryn La Barre

Associate Professor Emerita

PhD, Information Science, Indiana University

Research focus: Interrogating historical and contemporary naming practices and power dynamics in cultural heritage collections of films, comics and zines. Methods: Community-based participatory research and oral history.

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.

Lauryn Lehman

Academic Advisor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Affairs

Tomas Lipinski

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MS, Library and Information Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; LLM, The John Marshall Law School; JD, Marquette University; BA, History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Research focus: Information and Internet law and policy in the United States, the EU, and globally across society, but especially libraries and other knowledge institutions.

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.

Thomas MacMullen

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Technology, Computer Technology, Eastern Illinois University

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

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

Desiree McMillion

Director of Undergraduate Affairs

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.

Anna Elizabeth Mitchell

Adjunct Lecturer

CAS, Library and Information Science, Illinois (in progress), MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; BA, Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts, Colorado State University

Research focus: Comprehensive library services for children, families, and caregivers; holistic early childhood development; community-driven partnerships and programming; and trauma-informed library services and building resiliency.

Zahra Mohaghegh

Affiliate Assistant Professor

PhD, MS, Reliability Engineering, University of Maryland

Christy Moss

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; BA, Communication, Greenville University

Research focus: The user experience of mass solicitation channels (mail, email, web, and social), the connection between digital engagement and solicitation, and funding higher education.

Christina Myers

Adjunct Lecturer

MSLS, Library Science, University of Kentucky; BA, English, Lindsey Wilson College

Research focus: Information literary, metadata, and rural librarianship, especially in Appalachia.

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.

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.

Lauren Ochs

School Librarian Licensure Coordinator

Ann Ohms

Adjunct Lecturer

Megan Oliver

Adjunct Lecturer

MS in Library and Information Science, BA in Anthropology 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.

Carole Palmer

Professor Emeritus

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Data curation and digital research collections.

Hyanghee Park

Postdoctoral Research Associate

PhD, Communication, Seoul National University

Research focus: Human-Computer Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, Future of Work, Algorithmic Management, Metaverse Workspace

Julia Burns Petrella

Advisor: Carol Tilley
Research focus: My research focuses on youth services and school librarianship, LIS curricula and pedagogy, and the significance of race, racism, and whiteness.

Alaina Pincus

Assistant Director for Informatics Education Programs

Kate Quealy-Gainer

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

Dennis Quinn

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library Science, University of North Texas

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

Bethany Radcliffe

Adjunct Lecturer

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

Research focus: Marketing libraries; information literacy.

Sharathchandra Ramakrishnan

Affiliate Assistant Professor

PhD, Arts & Technology, University of Texas at Dallas; MS, Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh

Research focus: Multimodal interfaces and human machine interaction, design and policy implications of machine listening technologies, auditory cognition and hearing sciences, information sonification and design of auditory displays, and sound studies.

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

Colin Rhinesmith

Adjunct Lecturer

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

Research focus: Critical information studies, community informatics, community-engaged and participatory action research, infrastructure studies, telecommunication and information policy.

Alfred Roca

Affiliate Professor

PhD, Harvard University

Research focus: Bioinformatics, genomics, endogenous retroviruses, population genetics, and conservation genomics.

Lian Ruan

Research Affiliate

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois

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

Dominic Saebeler

Adjunct Lecturer

Jefferey Saiger

MS, IT Project Management, DePaul University

Research focus: Business digitization and modernization.

Melissa Salrin

Adjunct Lecturer

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

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

Cheeno Marlo Sayuno

Postdoctoral Research Associate

PhD Communication, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines

MA Communication Arts, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines

BA Mass Communication (Major in Journalism), Cavite State University, Philippines

Research focus: Children’s media, literature, and culture; transmedia studies; communication and media research; arts-based research; narrative analysis; and qualitative gaming experience studies.

Dan Schiller

Professor Emeritus

PhD, Communication, Pennsylvania

Research focus: Telecommunications history; information policy; cultural production and the political economy of capitalism.

Fred Schlipf

Adjunct Professor

MA, PhD, Graduate Library School, University of Chicago

Research focus: Functional design of 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.

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.

Wenyi Shang

Advisor: Ted Underwood
Research focus: Addressing humanities problems by investigating data in historical documents, relational databases, and especially digital libraries: large-scale literary texts and bibliographic metadata. Using various methods of digital humanities and computational social science: text mining, machine learning, and social network analysis.

Rebecka Sheffield

MIST, PhD, Information Studies, University of Toronto; BA, University of Saskatchewan

Research focus: Community archives, LGBTQ2+ studies, social movement theory, and archival research and scholarship.

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.

Linda C. Smith

Professor Emerita

PhD, Information Transfer, Syracuse University

Research focus: Education for library and information science, with particular attention to online pedagogy; history of information science; impact of new technologies on reference and information services.

Maria Souden

Research Affiliate

PhD, Information, University of Michigan

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.

Sharifa Sultana

Affiliate Assistant Professor

PhD, Information Science, Cornell University

Research focus: HCI, AI for social justice, decoloniality, well-being, and gender.

Donica Swann

Adjunct Lecturer

MLS, University of Kentucky; MA, English Literature, BA, Medieval Studies, Eastern Illinois University

Research focus: Archives and public library administration; leadership in libraries; community archives; and race, gender, and information technology.

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.

Sever Tipei

Center Affiliate

D.M.A. (composition), University of Michigan

Research focus: Musical informatics; computer-assisted (algorithmic) composition; digital sound synthesis; music composition and sound design on high-performance computers.

Daniel Tracy

Affiliate Associate Professor

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

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

Andrew Uhe

Adjunct Lecturer

MBA, Illinois State University

Research focus: Cyber security, programming

Richard Urban

Adjunct Lecturer

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

Research focus: Museum informatics, cultural heritage metadata, information architecture, user experience and usability

Isabella Viega

Advisor: Ryan Cordell
Research focus: My research aims to understand how the typewriter, as a gendered technology, enables queer modernist poetics. Through the lenses of book history and print culture, I hope to explore how the typewriter can facilitate literary political dissent, historically and presently.

John Vincler

Adjunct Lecturer

Anke Voss

Adjunct Lecturer

MSLS, Albany (SUNY); MA, Massachusetts

Research focus: Community archives, women's archives.

Tine Walczyk

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Information Science and MLIS, UT Austin

Research focus: Library systems, international libraries/librarianship, and solo-librarianship

Shaowen Wang

Affiliate Professor

PhD, Geography, 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.

Chris Wiley

Advisor: Sarah Park Dahlen
Research focus: My research interests are on topics related to racial ideologies, race, digital studies, and intersectionality.

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.

DeAnza Williams

PhD, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (in progress)

MS, Library and Information Science, University of North Texas

BS, Marketing, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Advisor: Carol Tilley
Research focus: My research interests include multicultural representation in youth literature; library services for teens (collections, programming, teen spaces, and evaluation of services offered); everyday life information-seeking behaviors of teens; public libraries as informal learning centers; and library leadership and management.

Kate Williams

Associate Professor Emerita

PhD, Information, University of Michigan

Research focus: Community informatics; technology use in local communities and by ordinary people; public libraries past, present, and future; social capital as a crucial resource in the information revolution.

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.

Gretchen Zaitzeff

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

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

Andrew Zalot

Advisors: Emily Knox, Rachel M. Magee
Research focus: My research focuses on intellectual freedom and censorship in schools and libraries. My current work focuses on examining discourse in online and local communities, specifically how they engage with one another when a book is banned.

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.

Heng Zheng

Postdoctoral Research Associate

PhD, Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Master, Logic, Sun Yat-sen University

Research focus: Computational Models of Argument, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Explainable AI; Legal Informatics; Digital Libraries; Misinformation