Sandeep Avula
Research Interests: Information retrieval; Recommender systems
Advisors: Jaime Arguello and Diane Kelly
Earl Bailey
Research Interests: Effects of bias on information retrieval and use; Cognitive aspects to information design and retrieval; Examination of personalization from a cognitive perspective
Advisor: Diane Kelly
Heather L. Barnes
Research Interests: Community archives; Social informatics; Digital curation; Organizational & cultural memory-making/memorialization processes
Advisor: Helen Tibbo
Kathy Brennan
Research Interests: Impact of cognitive load on information search and retrieval; Measures of mental effort; Human-computer interaction (HCI); Research methods
Advisor: Diane Kelly
Rachael Clemens
Research Interests: Information behavior and decision making during a personal crisis; Affective and cognitive influences on information seeking; Information seeking and avoidance as a coping / therapeutic activity; User education
Advisor: Barbara Wildemuth
Jonathon Crabtree
Research Interests: Digital curation; Archives; Preservation
Advisor: Helen Tibbo
Anita Crescenzi
Research Interests: Human-computer interactions; Interactive information retrieval; Collaboration and information seeking and behavior especially with regard to health
Advisors: Rob Capra and Diane Kelly
Nina Exner
Research Interests: Academic libraries; Research competency development; Mentoring of faculty-librarians; Library organizational behavior; Grantsmanship; Popular materials
Advisor: Barbara Moran
Charlene Finley
Research Interests: Health informatics; Information seeking behavior and use (health-related); health policies and confidentiality and security of health information
Advisors: Amelia Gibson and David Gotz
Patrick Golden
Research Interests: Scholarly note-taking practices; Infrastructure studies; History of information systems
Teaching: Digital Libraries
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Stephanie Haas
Sheryl Grant
Research Interests: Reputation systems; Technology-mediated social participation; Digital badge system design; Value-driven and value-sensitive design
Advisor: Barbara Wildemuth
Elliott Hauser
Research Interests: Data provenance; Research workflows; Data modeling; History and theory of information science
Teaching: Programming; Web development
Advisors: Brad Hemminger and Ryan Shaw
Jacob Hill
Research Interests: Knowledge organization; Digital humanities; Baha’i Studies; Arabic & Persian manuscripts
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Brad Hemminger
Kimberly Hirsh
Research Interests: Information needs and behaviors of adolescents; Role of school libraries in learning; Professional development of school librarians
Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Zekun Hu
Research Interests: Archives; Digital preservation; Personally identifiable information in digital collections
Advisor: Christopher (Cal) Lee
Samantha Kaplan
Research Interests: Misinformation and disinformation
Advisors: Barbara Wildemuth and Ryan Shaw
Heejun Kim
Research Interests: 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
Deborah (Debbie) Maron
Research Interests: Metadata pedagogy; History of LIS; Philosophy of information organization; Critical Information Theory
Teaching: Organization of Information, Digital Libraries
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Brian Sturm
John D. Martin III
Research Interests: 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
Teaching: Human information interaction; Tools for information literacy; User interface design
Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Sarah Beth Nelson
Research Interests: Orality and literacy; True personal storytelling; Contemporary oral tradition
Advisor: Brian Sturm
Danny Anh Nguyen
Research Interests: Scholarly communications; Information retrieval; Human-Computer interaction; Social media; Evidence-based practice
Advisor: Brad Hemminger
Colin Post
Research Interests: Net-based art; Artists' personal archives; History of art conservation
Advisor: Cal Lee
Sarah Ramdeen
Research Interests: Data stewardship (preservation, curation, management, access, etc.); Information seeking behavior (related to physical objects); Earth and space science/geoscience informatics
Teaching: Organization of information; Science data stewardship; Museums and archives related topics
Advisor: Claudia Gollop
Emily E. Roscoe
Research Interests: 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
Cynthia (Cindy) Schmidt
Research Interests: School library media; Marketing/PR for libraries; Professional advocacy/recruitment; Library 2.0
Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Grace Shin
Research Interests: Health information; Information seeking and behavior especially with regard to health; Human-Computer interaction
Advisors: Bradley Hemminger and Javed Mostafa
Elnora Kelly Tayag
Research Interests: Community-based collections; Digital humanities
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Leslie Thomson
Research Interests: Everyday life information practices; Human information interactions; Information practices; Online content creation; Personal information management, Qualitative research methods
Teaching: Human Information Interactions; Everyday Life Information; Emotions and Information
Advisor: Barbara Wildemuth
Megan Threats
Research Interests: Health information behavior; Health interventions; Health information management; Consumer health information
Advisors: Claudia Gollop and Amelia Gibson
Emily Vardell
Research Interests: Health information behavior; Health insurance literacy and decision-making
Teaching: General reference skills; Health sciences reference; Health information behavior; Human information behavior; Consumer health information; Evidence-based medicine; Advanced searching skills
Advisor: Claudia Gollop
Shenmeng Xu
Research Interests: Scientometrics; Scholarly communications; Altmetrics and related areas.
Advisor: Brad Hemminger
Yinglong Zhang
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction; Collaborative search; Data science; Eye-tracking
Advisors: Rob Capra and Diane Kelly