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.

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Information Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison (in progress); 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.

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

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.

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.

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 Professor

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Kritikos

Adjunct Lecturer

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

Research focus: Information society and culture; information law and policy; legal issues in libraries; free speech; privacy.

Joyce Latham

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

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.

Ann Ohms

Adjunct Lecturer

Brynnen Owen

Assistant Director of Core Systems

Heidi Rhea

Adjunct Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.