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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

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, Assistant 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

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

Amanda Menking, Associate Teaching Professor, Director, Master of Human-Computer Interaction + Design (MHCI+D) Program. Specializations: Social Computing, Gender and Technology

Cheryl A. Metoyer, Associate Professor Emeritus. Specializations: Native North American Indigenous Knowledge, Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Information Seeking and Use in Culturally Diverse Communities

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 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. 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, Assistant 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. 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, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Child-Computer Interaction, Learning Sciences, Families and Technologies

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).

Maria Garrido, Principal Research Scientist, Technology & Social Change Group.

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

Helene Williams, Teaching Professor. Specializations: Collection Development, Academic Librarianship, Digital Humanities

Jason Young, Senior Research Scientist, Technology & Social Change Group. Specializations: Knowledge Politics and Misinformation, Indigenous Knowledge and Digital Colonialism, ICT and Development

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Student leaders give high schoolers a taste of Informatics at hackathon

Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Twenty-six middle and high school students in Washington state spent four days brainstorming technology solutions in an online challenge hosted by Information School student leaders.  The event, “Fear Less, Tech More,” is...
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iSchool MLIS program re-accredited by ALA

Thursday, February 18, 2021
The Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program at the University of Washington Information School was re-accredited by the American Library Association (ALA) in early 2021. The UW’s MLIS program has been continuously...
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