Ph.D. Faculty Advisors
Faculty Who Can Chair Committees
Below is a list of iSchool faculty members who are eligible to advise doctoral students. Many of them may be looking to take on new students for the upcoming school year. Please note, identifying a faculty member who is working in a similar area to your interests and can advise you through the program is a key part of being admitted. Therefore, prospective students are strongly encouraged to contact faculty directly and utilize their directory listing to learn more about their research and recent publications. Another helpful resource is the Research Areas section of the website, which groups faculty by the type of work they are doing.
Hala Annabi, Associate Professor, MSIM Program Chair. Specializations: Inclusive Learning Organizations, Women in the Technology Industry, Individuals with Autism in the Workplace
Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Assistant Professor, Joe and Jill McKinstry Endowed Faculty Fellow in Native North American Indigenous Knowledge. Specializations: Indigenous Systems of Knowledge, Native American Art and Artifacts, Tribal Museums and Indigenous Curation
Aylin Caliskan, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
Marika Cifor, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Archives and Record Management, Gender and Technology, Digital Studies
Katie Davis, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Program Chair. Specializations: Child-Computer Interaction, Learning Sciences, Digital Youth
Anind K. Dey, Dean and Professor. Specializations: Human-computer interaction, Machine learning and artificial intelligence, Ubiquitous and mobile computing
Megan Finn, Associate Professor. Specializations: History of Information and Computing, Science and Technology Studies, Crisis Informatics
Karen E. Fisher, Professor. Specializations: Forced Migration, Information in Everyday Life, Digital Youth
Batya Friedman, Professor. Specializations: Human-Computer Interaction, Multi-lifespan Design, Value Sensitive Design
Ricardo Gomez, Associate Professor. Specializations: Information Technology in Developing Countries, Qualitative Methods, Technology and Social Change
David G. Hendry, Associate Professor. Specializations: Human-Computer Interaction, Value Sensitive Design
Alexis Hiniker, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, User-Centered Design
Anna Lauren Hoffmann, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Data Ethics, Technology & Human Values, Discourse Analysis
Bill Howe, Associate Professor. Specializations: Data Management, Data Science for Social Good, Scientific Databases and Visualization
Joseph Janes, Associate Professor. Specializations: Cultural Impact of Documents and Documentation, Future of Libraries, Information Science
Amy J. Ko, Professor, Informatics Program Chair. Specializations: Human-Computer Interaction, Computing Education, Software Engineering
Lindah Kotut, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Human Computer Interaction, Privacy and Security, Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
Jin Ha Lee, Associate Professor. Specializations: Organization and Preservation of Popular Cultural Objects, Music, Multimedia, and Interactive Media Information Retrieval, User Behavior Related to Popular Cultural Media
Clarita Lefthand-Begay, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Water Security Research, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Governments, and Communities, Climate, Native Health and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
David Levy, Professor. Specializations: Contemplative Practices, Ethics of Information and Technology, Information and the Quality of Life
Jessica Luke, Teaching Professor, Director, Museology Graduate Program. Specializations: Learning in Museums: critical thinking, play, and social emotional learning, Family Involvement in Learning
Michelle H. Martin, Beverly Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services, MLIS Program Chair. Specializations: Children's Literature, Young Adult Literature, Youth Services
Tanu Mitra, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Social Computing, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Online Misinformation
Adam Daniel Moore, Professor. Specializations: Ethics of Information and Technology, Applied Ethics, Normative Ethical Theory, Intellectual Property, Privacy, Freedom of Speech, Ethics of Hacking, Data Ethics
Carole Palmer, Professor, Associate Dean for Research. Specializations: Data Curation, Digital Research Collections, Scientific and Scholarly Information Work
Wanda Pratt, Professor, Acting Associate Dean for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access & Sovereignty (IDEAS). Specializations: Health Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction
Hans Jochen Scholl, Professor. Specializations: Electronic Government, Disaster Information Management, Distributed Ledger Technologies
Chirag Shah, Associate Professor. Specializations: Information Retrieval/Seeking, Data Science, Personalization and Recommendation
Jaime Snyder, Associate Professor. Specializations: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Computer Interaction, Visualization Studies
Emma Spiro, Associate Professor. Specializations: Social Networks, Crisis Informatics and Misinformation, Computational Social Science
Joseph T. Tennis, Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Executive Director of Administrative Services. Specializations: Classification Theory, Information Provenance and Versioning, Comparative Metadata Analysis
Nicholas Weber, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Data and Software Curation, Civic Technology, Science and Technology Studies
Jevin West, Associate Professor, Director, Center for an Informed Public. Specializations: Data Science, Network Science, Scholarly Communication
Jacob Wobbrock, Professor. Specializations: Human-Computer Interaction, Accessible Computing, Mobile Computing
Jason C. Yip, Associate Professor. Specializations: Child-Computer Interaction, Learning Sciences, Families and Technologies
Jason Young, Senior Research Scientist, Technology & Social Change Group, Affiliate Assistant Professor. Specializations: Digital Divides & Social Justice, Misinformation & Digital Literacy, ICT & Development
Faculty/Research Scientists Who Can Serve on Committees
Below is a list of iSchool teaching faculty members and affiliate faculty research scientists who can serve on doctoral committees but who cannot advise doctoral students (i.e. they cannot serve as Chair of a doctoral committee).
Chris Coward, Senior Principal Research Scientist & Director, Technology & Social Change Group, Affiliate Associate Professor. Specializations: ICT and development, Public libraries, Civic engagement
Julia Deeb-Swihart, Assistant Teaching Professor. Specializations: Data Science, Information and Society, Human-Computer Interaction
Maria Garrido, Principal Research Scientist, Technology & Social Change Group, Affiliate Assistant Professor.
Trent Hill, Associate Teaching Professor. Specializations: Cataloging and Classification, Human Information Behavior
Sandy Littletree, Assistant Teaching Professor. Specializations: Indigenous Systems of Knowledge, Information and Society, Information Services
Melanie Walsh, Assistant Teaching Professor. Specializations: Digital Humanities, Cultural Analytics, Literature
Heather Whiteman, Assistant Teaching Professor. Specializations: Future of Work, People Analytics, Data Science & Society
Helene Williams, Teaching Professor. Specializations: Collection Development, Academic Librarianship, Digital Humanities