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.

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.

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

PhD, Bryn Mawr College

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

Paula Carns

Adjunct 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.

Dan Cermak

Adjunct Lecturer

BS, Medical Technology, James Madison University

Andrew Christensen

Adjunct Lecturer

BS, Computer Science, Illinois

Research focus: My background is in computer science and filmmaking, with credits in many science documentary films. My visualization research tasks include reading, processing, and designing 3D numerical scientific simulations for non-expert audiences in immersive theaters.

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.

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

Robert DeCandido

Adjunct Lecturer

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

Janet Eke

Assistant Director, Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship

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.

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

Thomas Habing

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue; BS, Mechanical Engineering, Illinois

Research focus: Digital libraries, metadata, interoperability, digital preservation, systems design and implementation.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Jooho Lee

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

MS, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

MS, Information Systems Management, Yonsei University, Korea

BA, English Language and Literature, Sungshin Women's University, Korea

Advisor: Catherine Blake
Research focus: My research focuses on biomedical scientific claims made in grant funded projects. Especially, I am interested in analyzing the effect of collaboration on evolving scientific claims in multiple projects, which are appeared in text such as grant abstracts and full-text articles. The textual analysis on scientific claims are conducted with various techniques in information retrieval, natural language processing, and text mining.

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.

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

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 effective personnel management techniques, financial management, and process improvement.

Zahra Mohaghegh

Affiliate Assistant Professor

PhD, MS, Reliability Engineering, University of Maryland

Jill Naiman

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research focus: I am currently researching methods for efficient and engaging data visualization in the sciences.

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.

Brynnen Owen

Assistant Director of Core Systems

Kate Quealy-Gainer

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

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

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

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: 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.

Ruth Shasteen

Visiting 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.

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.

Lettycia Terrones

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

MLIS (children's and youth services concentration), University of California, Los Angeles

BA, English, University of California, Berkeley

Advisor: Elizabeth Hoiem
Research focus: I use interdisciplinary methods, particularly Chicana Feminist Theory and Performance Studies, to interrogate strategies for minoritarian resistance and survivance deployed in the picturebook art form. My project considers how aesthetic/political strategies contribute to library services for children and families. Through this work, I aim to foster conversations between critical ethnic studies approaches in library science curriculum and children's library services.

Mary Wilkes Towner

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

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

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.

Kevin Trainor

Adjunct Senior Lecturer

MBA, The University of Chicago

Research focus: Common elements of story-based techniques as used in systems analysis, interaction design, agile software development, and data science storytelling; adaptability of modern software development methods (like design patterns, version control, continuous integration, pair programming and test-driven development) to the needs of data science practitioners.

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

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.