Information retrieval, human-computer interactions, collaborative search, and conversational systems
Advisors: Jaime Arguello and Gary Marchionini
Community archives, social informatics, digital curation, organizational & cultural memory-making and/or memorialization processes
Advisor: Helen Tibbo
Human-computer interaction, social studies of information
Advisors: Amelia Gibson and Zeynep Tufekci
Information seeking behavior, Task-based information retrieval, Human factors (cognitive and affective factors in HCI), Search as Learning
Advisor: Jaime Arguello
Advisor: Helen Tibbo
Human-computer interactions, interactive information retrieval, collaboration and information seeking and behavior, especially with regard to health
Advisors: Rob Capra and Diane Kelly
Academic libraries, research competency development, mentoring of faculty-librarians, library organizational behavior, grantsmanship, popular materials
Advisor: Barbara Moran
Health informatics, information seeking behavior and use (health-related), health policies and confidentiality and security of health information
Advisors: Amelia Gibson and David Gotz
Scholarly note-taking practices, infrastructure studies, history of information systems
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Stephanie Haas
Data provenance, research workflows, data modeling, history and theory of information science
Advisors: Brad Hemminger and Ryan Shaw
Knowledge organization, digital humanities, Baha’i studies, Arabic & Persian manuscripts
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Brad Hemminger
Information needs and behaviors of adolescents, role of school libraries in learning, professional development of school librarians
Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Misinformation and disinformation at the intersection of everyday life and health contexts focusing on information behavior and use
Advisors: Barbara Wildemuth and Ryan Shaw
Credibility assessment of health information in health-related online communities; Dynamics of social and information networks; Data analytics; Text mining; Machine learning
Advisors: Jaime Arguello and Javed Mostafa
Digital humanities, collective memory and community archive
Advisor: Ryan Shaw
Human-computer interaction, interactive information behavior, collaborative search, information/knowledge organization and knowledge re-use
Advisor: Rob Capra
Information privacy in the big data environment, information ethics
Advisor: Arcot Rajasekar and Zeynep Tufekci
Educational technology, digital and visual culture; accesibility, museums, libraries, and cultural institutions
Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Metadata pedagogy, history of LIS, philosophy of information organization, critical information theory
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Brian Sturm
Information behavior, disclosure of personal information, survey interfaces and methods, free/open source software (F/OSS) education, digital humanities, Middle East libraries and cultural institutions
Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Orality and literacy, true personal storytelling, contemporary oral tradition
Advisor: Brian Sturm
Scholarly communications, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, social media, evidence-based practice
Advisor: Brad Hemminger
Database and information retrieval systems, text/data mining, bio/health/medical informatics
Advisor: David Gotz
Net-based art, artists' personal archives, history of art conservation
Advisor: Christopher (Cal) Lee
Organization of information and information architecture, archives/special collections and cultural institutions, data management and curation, social studies of information management
Advisor: Christopher (Cal) Lee
Government officials' legal and societal obligations for information management, legal foundations of public information in a representative government, legal risk management for libraries and archives
Advisor: Christopher (Cal) Lee
School library media, marketing and PR for libraries, professional advocacy and recruitment, Library 2.0
Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Health information, information seeking and behavior, especially with regard to health, human-computer interaction
Advisors: Bradley Hemminger and Javed Mostafa
Community-based collections, digital humanities
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Everyday life information practices, human information interactions, information practices, online content creation, personal information management, qualitative research methods
Advisor: Barbara Wildemuth
Health information behavior, digital health, public health, critical race and sexuality, social media
Advisors: Claudia Gollop and Amelia Gibson
Interactive Information Retrieval and Human Computer Interaction
Advisors: Jaime Arguello and Rob Capra
Database and information retrieval systems, text/data mining, human-computer interaction
Advisor: David Gotz
Text/data mining, human-computer interaction, systems analysis and design, organization of information and information architecture
Advisor: Rob Capra
Academic and health sciences librarianship, information workflow and needs, public and global health.
Advisor: Mary Grace Flaherty
Scientometrics, scholarly communications, altmetrics and related areas
Advisor: Brad Hemminger
Human-computer interaction, collaborative search, data science, eye-tracking
Advisors: Rob Capra and Diane Kelly
