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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 and Computer Vision

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: Critical Data Studies, Technology, Norms, & 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, 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. 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

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Jakob Collins and Joanne Dallas

MLIS Capstone project has kids reading and moving

Friday, May 20, 2022
With pandemic precautions and wariness lingering, Information School Master of Library and Information Science students Jakob Collins and Joanne Dallas combined reading with outdoor activity for Longview residents this...
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Nicola Kalderash

MSIM student named a Slade Gorton Leaders Fellow

Monday, May 16, 2022
Nicola Kalderash, a Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM) student, was recently named a Slade Gorton Leaders Fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). Kalderash is pursuing the Early-Career Accelerated track...
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