Adjuncts & Affiliates

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.
Academic Advisor and Coordinator of Graduate Affairs for MSIM and MS BIO
Adjunct Lecturer
Professor Emeritus
PhD, Sociology, University of Chicago
Research focus
Digital inequality, community informatics, and African American intellectual history.
Assistant Director of the Center for Children's Books
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.
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; MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; BA, History, Illinois
Research focus
Information access and reproductive health
Coordinator of Academic and Student Affairs for PhD
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.
Game Studies and Design Instructor
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.
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
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MA, Religion, Latin American/Caribbean Studies, Indiana University
Adjunct Associate Professor
PhD, University of Liege, Belgium; MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois
Research focus
Communication ethics, onomastic science.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Director of Informatics Programs
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MA, English, Illinois
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Academic Advisor and Coordinator of Graduate Affairs for MSIM and MS BIO
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.
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
MA, Library and Information Studies, Northern Illinois University
Adjunct Lecturer
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, CAS, Library and Information Science, Illinois
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
PhD, MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Library and Information Science, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Research focus
Professional development; information literacy; advancing access to library resources and services.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois
Research focus
Digital literacy, community informatics, public engagement, makerspaces, learning, user experience design.
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MA, French Literature, New York University
Research focus
Fundraising analytics, donor behaviors/behavioral modeling, data visualization.
Affiliate Professor
PhD, MS, Computer Science, Stanford University; MS, Physics, University of Washington, Seattle
Research focus
High performance computing, including parallel I/O.
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.
Research Scientist
MS, Computer Science, Stanford University
Research focus
Stakeholder alignment in complex systems; education (and learning) at scale
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.
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.
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.
Adjunct Associate Professor
MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois
Research focus
Information literacy, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, and critical reflection.
Adjunct Lecturer
Assistant Director for Academic Affairs
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.
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.
Affiliate Professor
BA, Bennington College
Research focus
Nonprofit journalism newsrooms, digital tools for news-gathering, and new business models for journalism.
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
MFA, The University of the Arts
Research focus
Conservation and preservation, history of the book, artists' books.
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.
Research Affiliate
PhD, Art History, Northwestern University
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Academic Advisor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Affairs
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; JD, Illinois
Research focus
Information policy, information ethics, free speech, privacy, libraries and society.
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.
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
PhD, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois; MLIS, University of Maryland
Research focus
What makes public libraries matter in their communities.
Academic Advisor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Affairs
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.
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Technology, Computer Technology, Eastern Illinois University
Research focus
Home automation, computer virtualization, and database technology.
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
Research focus
Digital citizenship and information literacy in secondary schools.
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois
Research focus
Information technology in libraries, usability and accessibility
Director of Undergraduate Affairs
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.
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.
Affiliate Assistant Professor
PhD, MS, Reliability Engineering, University of Maryland
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
MSLS, Library Science, University of Kentucky; BA, English, Lindsey Wilson College
Research focus
Information literary, metadata, and rural librarianship, especially in Appalachia.
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.
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.
School Librarian Licensure Coordinator
Adjunct Lecturer
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.
Professor Emeritus
PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois
Research focus
Data curation and digital research collections.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
PhD, Communication, Seoul National University
Research focus
Human-Computer Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, Future of Work, Algorithmic Management, Metaverse Workspace
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.
Editor, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Library Science, University of North Texas
Research focus
Library administration, future/developing bibliographic metadata systems, and user interface design.
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Library and Information Science, MA, Journalism, Indiana University; BA, English, Millersville University
Research focus
Marketing libraries; information literacy.
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Management Information Systems, University of Illinois at Springfield; BS, Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Library and Information Science
Research focus
Professional development and training, reference, library administration and management.
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois
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.
Affiliate Professor
PhD, Harvard University
Research focus
Bioinformatics, genomics, endogenous retroviruses, population genetics, and conservation genomics.
Research Affiliate
PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois
Research focus
Information behavior, special library administration, and international librarianship.
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, IT Project Management, DePaul University
Research focus
Business digitization and modernization.
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Library and Information Science, MA, History, Illinois
 
Research focus
User services, outreach, politics of the archival project
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.
Professor Emeritus
PhD, Communication, Pennsylvania
Research focus
Telecommunications history; information policy; cultural production and the political economy of capitalism.
Adjunct Professor
MA, PhD, Graduate Library School, University of Chicago
Research focus
Functional design of library buildings
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Research Affiliate
PhD, Information, University of Michigan
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.
Affiliate Assistant Professor
PhD, Information Science, Cornell University
Research focus
HCI, AI for social justice, decoloniality, well-being, and gender.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Affiliate Associate Professor
MS, Library and Information Science & PhD, English, Illinois
Research focus
Information behavior, digital publishing, user experience, scholarly communications, digital humanities.
Adjunct Lecturer
MBA, Illinois State University
Research focus
Cyber security, programming
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
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
Adjunct Lecturer
MSLS, Albany (SUNY); MA, Massachusetts
Research focus
Community archives, women's archives.
Adjunct Lecturer
PhD, Information Science and MLIS, UT Austin
Research focus
Library systems, international libraries/librarianship, and solo-librarianship
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.
Advisor
Sarah Park Dahlen
Research focus
My research interests are on topics related to racial ideologies, race, digital studies, and intersectionality.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Computer Science, Kansas State University
Research focus
Data warehousing, business intelligence, predictive analytics, data lakes, and data storage.
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois
Research focus
Reference, instruction, online learning.
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois; BA, English, Illinois Wesleyan University
Research focus
Reference training, instruction in libraries, evaluation of reference services.
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois
Research focus
School librarianship, educational technology, and management of school libraries.
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.
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.
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