Ph.D. Faculty Advisors
Below is a list of iSchool faculty members who are eligible to advise doctoral students, and affiliate faculty research scientists who can serve on doctoral committees. 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.
* denotes research scientists who may serve on, but not chair, doctoral committees
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. 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
Maria Garrido,* Principal Research Scientist, Technology & Social Change Group.
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
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
Jason Young,* Senior Research Scientist, Technology & Social Change Group. Specializations: Knowledge Politics and Misinformation, Indigenous Knowledge and Digital Colonialism, ICT and Development