PhD Alumni
PhD Alumni Listed by Year of Degree
Accessing IS PhD Dissertations
| First Name | Last Name | Year of Degree | Web Site (if available) | Last Known Position | Dissertation Title | Committee Chair |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David | Abels | 1993 | Vice President for Customer and Technical Services, Cuadra Associates | Sequencing items in multiple-item displays on online public access catalogs | Elaine Svenonius | |
| Eileen | Abels | 1984 | Current site | Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor, College of Information Science & Technology, Drexel University | The use of technical information by engineers of the electrical sector in Mexico | Hal Borko |
| Susan | Allen | 1996 | Director, California Rare Book School | The impact of the Stamp Act of 1765 on colonial American printers : threat or bonanza? | John Richardson | |
| Abdulaziz | Al-Nahari | 1982 | The national library : an analysis of the critical factors in promoting library and information services in developing countries : the case of Saudi-Arabia | Richard Gardner | ||
| Kim | Anderson | 2012 | Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Appraisal learning networks : how university archivists learn to appraise through social interaction | Anne Gilliland | |
| Corey | Arnold | 2009 | Current site | Assistant Professor, Medical Imaging Informatics Group, UCLA | Joint probability models of radiology images and clinical annotations | Greg Leazer |
| Mohammed | Atram | 1984 | Availability of periodicals in major Saudi Arabian libraries : a descriptive study of factors contributing to availability within the framework of national librarianship | Hal Borko | ||
| Vijayaraghavan | Bashyam | 2008 | Current site | Senior Engineer, Monster | Towards a canonical representation for machine understanding of natural language in radiology reports | Greg Leazer |
| Ruth | Bayhylle | 2012 | Tribal records : a study in records, memory and power | Anne Gilliland | ||
| Gerald | Benoit | 1998 | Current site | Associate Professor, Computer Science and Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Simmons College | Information seeking as communicative action | Leah Lievrouw |
| Nadia | Caidi | 2001 | Current site | Associate Professor. Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto | The information infrastructure as a discursive space : a case study of the library community in Central and Eastern Europe | Christine Borgman |
| Allyson | Carlyle | 1994 | Current site | Associate Professor, The Information School, University of Washington | The second objective of the catalog : an evaluation of collocation in online catalog displays | Elaine Svenonius |
| Renate | Chancellor | 2008 | Current site | Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Catholic University of America | E.J. Josey : a historical look at a civil rights activist and transformative leader in the modern library profession | Mary Niles Maack |
| Kenneth | Crews | 1990 | Current site | Director, Copyright Advisory Office, Columbia University & Lecturer-in-law, Columbia University Law School | Copyright policies at American research universities : balancing information needs and legal limits | John Richardson |
| Leonard | D'Avolio | 2007 | Current site | Associate Center Director for Biomedical Informatics, VA Boston Healthcare System and Assistant Clinical Professor, Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital | Learning from surgical operative reports : incorporating context in the secondary use of medical records | Greg Leazer |
| Eduardo | Dias | 1987 | Managerial work in special libraries and information centers in Brazil | William Fisher | ||
| Anthony | Dunbar | 2008 | Critical race information theory : applying a CRITical race lens to information studies | Anne Gilliland | ||
| Zorana | Ercegovac | 1990 | Current site | Founder and Managing Director, InfoEN Associates, Information Literacy Consulting | Research on knowledge-based descriptive cataloging of cartographic publications : an experimental advice-giving system -- mapper | Hal Borko |
| Sharon | Farb | 2006 | Associate University Librarian for Collection Management and Scholarly Communication, UCLA | Negotiating use, persistence, and archiving : a study of academic library and publisher perspectives on licensing digital resources | Leah Lievrouw | |
| Holly | Gardinier | 2004 | Current site | Performing Arts Librarian, Claremont Colleges Library | Access points perceived as useful in searching for music scores and recordings | Elaine Svenonius |
| Rich | Gazan | 2004 | Current site | Assistant Professor, Department of Information & Computer Sciences, University of Hawaii | Creating hybrid knowledge : a role for the professional integrationist | Jonathan Furner |
| Karen | Gracy | 2001 | Current site | Assistant Professor, School of Library & Information Science, Kent State University | The imperative to preserve : competing definitions of value in the world of film preservation | Michele Cloonan |
| Melissa | Gross | 1998 | Current site | Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Florida State University | Imposed queries in the school library media center : a descriptive study | Virginia Walter |
| Dan | Haley | 2010 | Systems / Web Librarian, Pasadena City College | The use of print materials in the Internet age : a comparative study of academic library circulation patterns | Clara Chu | |
| Jenna | Hartel | 2007 | Current site | Assistant Professor. Faculty of Information, University of Toronto | Information activities, resources, and spaces in the hobby of gourmet cooking | Greg Leazer |
| Bruce | Henstell | 2001 | The representation of a new technology in the educational technology community : telling the multimedia story | Virginia Walter | ||
| Sandra | Hirsh | 1996 | Current site | Director, School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University | The effect of domain knowledge on elementary school children’s information retrieval behavior on an automated library catalog | Christine Borgman |
| Janet | Kaaya | 2006 | Principal Agricultural Research Officer & Head, Information and Documentation Services Department of Research and Development Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security & Cooperatives, Tanzania | Examining the adoption, implementation, institutionalization and sustainability of e-government strategies : the case of Tanzania using an institutional perspective | Leah Lievrouw | |
| Patrick | Keilty | 2011 | Current site | Visiting Assistant Professor at School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh | Seeking sex : Embodiment and electronic culture | Greg Leazer |
| Kevin | Lane | 2012 | Domains as community structure within ontologies : towards a macro-structure model of knowledge | Greg Leazer | ||
| Sara Shatford | Layne | 1997 | Head of the Cataloging Department, Science and Engineering Library, University of California, Los Angeles | Modelling relevance in art history : identifying attributes that determine the relevance of art works, images, and primary text to art history research | Elaine Svenonius | |
| Judith | Lechner | 1989 | Current site | Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Technology in the College of Education, Auburn University | Bibliographic instruction evaluation : a study testing the correlations among five measures of the impact of a bibliographic instruction program on undergraduates’ information searching behavior in libraries | Marcia Bates |
| Charlotte | Lee | 2004 | Current site | Assistant Professor, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Information School, University of Washington | The role of boundary negotiating artifacts in the collaborative design of a museum exhibition | Phil Agre |
| Jae | Lee | 1992 | Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Pusan National University, Korea | Information dependency and information development in newly industrialized countries (NICs) : the case of the Republic of Korea (ROK) | Donald Case | |
| Shari | Lee | 2009 | Assistant Professor, Library & Information Science, St. John's University | Teen space : designed for whom? | Clara Chu | |
| Songqiao | Liu | 1993 | Chief Executive Officer, Webchoir Inc. | The automatic decomposition of DDC synthesized numbers | Elaine Svenonius | |
| Ya-Ling | Lu | 2005 | Current site | Assistant Professor, Rutgers University | How children’s librarians help children cope with daily life : an anhanced readers’ advisory service | Virginia Walter |
| Shaojun | Lu (In memoriam) | 1999 | Current site | Assistant Professor. Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Oswego | The transition to the virtual world in formal scholarly communication : a comparative study of the natural sciences and the social sciences | Marcia Bates |
| Hongyan | Ma | 2008 | Assistant Professor, College of Information, Florida State University | User-system coordination in unified probabilistic retrieval : exploiting search logs to construct common ground | Jonathan Furner & Greg Leazer | |
| Francesca | Marini | 2005 | Archives Director, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Ontario | Sources and methodology of theater research in the view of scholars and information professionals | Marcia Bates | |
| Matthew | Mayernik | 2012 | Research Data Services Manager, National Center for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, CO) | Metadata realities for cyberinfrastructure : data authors as metadata creators | Christine Borgman | |
| Cindy | Mediavilla | 2000 | Current site | Library Programs Consultant, California State Library and Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles | Carma Russell (Zimmerman) Leigh : an historical look at a woman of vision and influence | Mary Niles Maack |
| Dee | Michel | 1992 | Writing a book about the appeal of The Wizard of Oz for gay men and boys, tentatively titled Friends of Dorothy: Why Gay Men and Boys Love Oz | A file structure model of library search behavior | Marcia Bates | |
| Stasa | Milojevic | 2009 | Current site | Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University | Big science, nano science? : mapping the evolution and socio-cognitive structure of nanoscience/nanotechnology using fixed methods | Jonathan Furner |
| Kathleen | Mitchell | 1999 | The problem of the girl : reading for a transitional age | Virginia Walter | ||
| Diane | Mizrachi | 2011 | Librarian, UCLA College Library | How do they manage it? An exploratory study of undergraduate students in their personal academic information ecologies | Marcia Bates | |
| Mavis | Molto | 1989 | Cataloger, Utah State University | Textual regularities applicable to full text searching : the case of family history literature | Marcia Bates | |
| David | Monroe | 1998 | ALA Goal 2000 : a narrative policy study | Virginia Walter | ||
| Edward | Pai | 1998 | Information Scientist & College Researcher, Office of Institutional Effectiveness, West Los Angeles College | Race, Asian Pacific American heterogeneity and the acceptance of computer mediated information systems | Clara Chu | |
| Eun | Park | 2002 | Current site | Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, McGill University | Developing a framework for authenticity requirements in university student records systems : an exploratory study | Anne Gilliland |
| Alberto | Pepe | 2010 | Current site | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University | Structure and evolution of scientific collaboraton networks in a modern research collaboratory | Christine Borgman |
| Rachel | Pergament | 2004 | A case study of policymaking regarding information competency in California Community Colleges | Beverly Lynch | ||
| Tassos | Petrou | 2003 | Current site | Senior Lecturer, School of Computing & Technology, University of East London | Invisible colleges in African-American scholarship : the tripartite relationship of scholarly memberships, subject classifications and the habitus in interdisciplinary classification practices | John Richardson |
| Ajit | Pyati | 2007 | Current site | Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario | Re-envisioning libraries in the information society : a critical theory of library technology | Clara Chu |
| Marjorie | Rauen | 2006 | Reading controversy : the narratives of San Francisco Public Library’s New Main building | Virginia Walter | ||
| Romelia | Salinas | 2008 | Current site | Head of Access Services, University Library, California State University, Los Angeles | The digital divide goes to college : Latino undergraduates and barriers to digital information | Clara Chu |
| Matthew | Saxton | 2000 | Current site | Associate Dean for Academics, The Information School, University of Washington | Evaluation of reference service in public libraries using a hierarchical linear model : applying multiple regression analysis to a multi-level research design | John Richardson |
| Kalpana | Shankar | 2002 | Lecturer, School of Information and Library Studies University College Dublin, Ireland | Scientists, records, and the practical politics of infrastructure | Anne Gilliland | |
| Katie | Shilton | 2011 | Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland | Building values into the design of pervasive mobile technologies | Christine Borgman | |
| Marilyn | Slater | 1988 | Bibliographic coupling among scientific papers in biological research specialties | Hal Borko | ||
| Suzanne | Stauffer | 2004 | Current site | Assistant Professor, School of Library & Information Science, Louisiana State University | Establishing a recognized social order : social and cultural factors in the development of Utah public libraries, 1890-1920 | Mary Niles Maack |
| Hugh | Stocks | 1986 | Library Director, William Jewell College (Retired) | The Book of Mormon in English, 1870-1920 : a publishing history and analytical bibliography | Diana Thomas | |
| Bhagirathi | Subrahmanyam | 1998 | Head, Metadata and Cataloging, University of Southern California Libraries | Consistency of assigned class numbers derived from the Library of Congress classification scheme in university libraries : issues of collocation and implications for information retrieval in online union catalogs | Elaine Svenonius | |
| Jennifer | Sweeney | 2006 | Current site | Senior Analyst, Smith & Lehmann Consulting and Adjunct Faculty, Center for Graduate Studies, Drexel University | Interpreting skill development in academic library reference work : an application of the Dreyfus model | Beverly Lynch |
| Melissa | Taitano | 2007 | Producing a film from her dissertation | Archives and collective memory : a case study of Guam and the internment of Chamorros in Mañenggon during World War II | Anne Gilliland | |
| Cheryl Boettcher | Tarsala | 2001 | Current site | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois | What is an author in the "Sikuquanshu"? Evidential research and authorship in late Qianlong era China (1771--1795) | Mary Niles Maack |
| Barbara | Tillett | 1987 | Chief, Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress | Bibliographic relationships : toward a conceptual structure of bibliographic information used in cataloging | Elaine Svenonius | |
| Ciaran | Trace | 2004 | Current site | Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin, School of Information | Documenting school life : formal and informal imprints of a fifth grade classroom | Anne Gilliland |
| Sam | Trosow | 2002 | Current site | Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario | Information for society : towards a critical theory of intellectual property policy | John Richardson |
| Kuang-Pei | Tu | 1996 | Senior Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library | Transformation and dissemination of Western knowledge and values : the shaping of library services in early twentieth century China | John Richardson | |
| Deborah | Weissmann | 2010 | Drinking from a fire hose : a study of information interactions in the personal offices of Members of Congress | Anne Gilliland | ||
| Kelvin | White | 2008 | Current site | Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Oklahoma | The dynamics of race and remembering in a "colorblind" society : a case study of racial paradigms and archival education in Mexico | Anne Gilliland |
| Martha | Yee | 1993 | Current site | Cataloging Supervisor, UCLA Film & Television Archive | Moving image works and manifestations | Elaine Svenonius |
| Cheong-Ok | Yoon | 1992 | Full Time Instructor, Department of Library and Information Science, Cheongju University, South Korea | The information seeking behavior of Koreans in the United States | Elaine Svenonius | |
| Eunha | Youn | 2011 | Lecturer, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea) | Standardization of archival description in Korea : examining the understanding, adoption, and implementation of ISAD(G) | Anne Gilliland |
