Students

Chris Holstrom
Ph.D. student

How would you organize not just the books in a library, but millions of pieces of digital information? What type of system would you want to use to find information in that huge digital library? Who or what would you want to organize that information? Chris addresses such questions as he studies knowledge organization. 

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Faculty

Katie Davis
Associate Professor

Davis explores the role of new media technologies in young people’s personal, social, and academic lives, with a particular focus on the intersection between technology and identity development during adolescence and emerging adulthood. In addition to publishing and presenting her research in scholarly venues, Katie regularly shares her work with parents, teachers, industry leaders, and policymakers in an effort to build connections between research and practice.

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Alumni

Joseph Tennis
Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, UW Information School

Joe Tennis was the first graduate of the UW Information School Ph.D. in Information Science program in 2005. He joined the iSchool in 2007 after two years at The University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The focus of his research is knowledge organization, specifically classification theory and the evaluation of classification practices and structures.

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