Core Faculty
Our exceptional faculty includes nationally recognized, award-winning, innovative teachers and researchers, who combine strong teaching skills with specialty expertise. They are regularly included on the university's lists of "teachers rated excellent by their students," and are active researchers: each of our full-time faculty members has served as principal investigator for at least one grant-funded project in the last two years. GSLIS students have the opportunity to learn not only from our tenure-system faculty (listed below), but also from other expert practitioners, including a strong team of adjunct faculty, affiliated faculty, emeritus faculty members, and PhD student teaching assistants.
Professor
Ph.D., Sociology, University of ChicagoAreas of Research:
Digital inequality, community informatics, and African American intellectual history.
Professor
Ph.D., The Public Library as an Agency for Social Stability, 1850-1919, London Metropolitan UniversityAreas of Research:
History of librarianship and information management, specifically in recent years the history of corporate magazines, of corporate libraries and information bureaux, and of library design.
Associate Professor and Associate Director, CIRSS
Ph.D., Information and Computer Science, University of California, IrvineAreas of Research:
Text mining, information synthesis, collaborative information behaviors, recognizing textual entailment, summarization, evidence-based discovery, meta-analysis, socio-technical systems.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Communication, Information and Library Studies, RutgersAreas of Research:
Human information behavior; community development in online learning environments; eLearning and digital pedagogy in LIS education; the retention and mentoring of minority librarians and LIS doctoral students; information literacy; and leadership, organizational development and communication in libraries.
Professor
Ph.D., Folklore and Folklife, PennsylvaniaAreas of Research:
The role and significance of vernacular culture; the ethnography of commercial culture; the politics of culture and cultural research.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Computer Science, Carnegie MellonAreas of Research:
Social computing; computational social science; natural language processing; network analysis; machine learning; covert networks; covert information; socio-technical systems.
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Ph.D., Library and Information Science, Western OntarioAreas of Research:
Design and evaluation of IR systems, including multimedia music information retrieval; the political economy of internetworked communication systems; database design; Web-based technologies.
Research Associate Professor
Ph.D., Information Science, PittsburghAreas of Research:
The foundations of information representation and description; issues of expression and encoding in documents and digital information resources.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Information and Library Science, North CarolinaAreas of Research:
Information retrieval in emerging domains such as social media and large collections of digitized books; temporal (diachonic) issues in information retrieval; human interactions with information search and retrieval systems.
Research Associate Professor
Director, Center for Digital Inclusion
Director, Urbana Champaign Big Broadband Project
Areas of Research:
Electronic government, information technology and organization design; social networks, knowledge management, and information technology; evaluation of broadband Internet; strategic management of information systems; and geographic information systems and geospatial technologies.
Professor
Ph.D., Information and Computer Science, University of California, IrvineAreas of Research:
Evolution and dynamics of information and networks; social analysis of information/communication technologies (ICTs); information in biological systems.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Library and Information Studies, Wisconsin-MadisonAreas of Research:
History of children's literature; history of youth services librarianship as women's history; historical and contemporary censorship and intellectual freedom; young adult literature; representations of minority-status groups in children's and young adult literature; reading engagement; reader-response research; reader-text interaction.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Sociology, UC-DavisAreas of Research:
Personal archiving; online community and identity; social aspects of computing; research methodology; and gender and technology.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Library and Information Science, RutgersAreas of Research:
Intellectual freedom and censorship, book history and reading practices, and information ethics and policy.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Information Science, IndianaAreas of Research:
Knowledge organization and access systems (historical and contemporary); task analysis; facet analysis and faceted classification; classification and concept theory with a special focus on the interactions between theoretical and practical approaches to information discovery and access.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Medieval Studies, University of Notre DameAreas of Research:
The interpenetration of manuscript, print, and digital cultures; the cultural production and circulation of knowledge; palaeography and diplomatics; manuscript studies; book history; medieval and early modern collecting; history of archives and libraries.
Publications include How the Page Matters (University of Toronto Press, 2011) and "On the uses of authenticity," Archivaria (Spring 2012).
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Library and Information Studies, BerkeleyAreas of Research:
Digital libraries; digital preservation and curation; digital humanities; metadata design; human-computer interaction and user interface design; socio-technical and participatory design approaches to information systems development.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Library and Information Science, IllinoisAreas of Research:
Youth services librarianship; children's print culture history; controversial topics in children's literature (evolution, race, gender); public libraries as cultural spaces.
Professor and Director, CIRSS
Areas of Research:
Scientific and scholarly information work; data practices and data curation; user-centered research collections and aggregations; interdisciplinary information use.
Professor and Interim Dean
Areas of Research:
Ontologies for data curation and scientific publishing; logic-based analysis of scientific discourse; XML semantics; production and delivery workflows for scientific publishing; identity and change problems in digital object management.
Professor
Ph.D., Communication, PennsylvaniaAreas of Research:
Telecommunications history; information policy; cultural production and the political economy of capitalism.
Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs
Areas of Research:
Information system design; education for library and information science; impact of new technologies on reference and information services.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Information Science, IndianaAreas of Research:
History of youth services librarianship, children's print culture, information inquiry and instruction in school libraries, information seeking and use, and media literacy.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Engineering Science, Louisiana StateAreas of Research:
Mathematical optimization; computational statistics; text and data mining; literature-based discovery; bioinformatics.
Professor
Ph.D., Computing, Lancaster (UK)Areas of Research:
Computer supported cooperative work; collaborative technologies in digital libraries and museums; user interface design and evaluation; open source usability; information visualization; ubiquitous learning, social learning of technology, rapid prototyping and evaluation.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Library Science, IllinoisAreas of Research:
International librarianship; library and information science education; collection development; management and assessment of library services; government information resources; economics of information; intellectual freedom issues; public librarianship.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Information, MichiganAreas of Research:
Community informatics, in particular the relationship between social networks, social capital, and the use of information and communications technology in low-income communities; public libraries as public computing places.
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