Philip Doty Associate Professor (512) 471-3746 Room: UTA 5.448 Hours: Tuesdays, 1:00 - 2:00 PM and by appointment

Degrees:
B.A., 1971, English, LeMoyne College; M.L.S., 1988, Syracuse University; Ph.D., 1995, Information Transfer, Syracuse University.

Bio:

Philip Doty worked for 13 years for Oneida County, New York, in environmental protection, information management, regulatory compliance, and assay training. He has also worked in the ERIC Clearinghouse for Information and Educational Technology, in the Syracuse University Library system as a special assistant to the Associate Director for Collection Development, in public services at the Geology and Physics Libraries, and in special system-wide automation projects.

His particular areas of research and teaching expertise are copyright, privacy, federal information policy, information behavior, cultural and gender aspects of information technologies, history and politics of computer networks, research methods, philosophy and information studies, and digital libraries.

He has consulted and done research with organizations such as NASA, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. General Services Administration, the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, the Museum Computer Network, the GTE/Verizon Foundation, and the Texas Office of Court Administration. He was a founding Associate Editor of the journal, Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy and co-author of The National Research and Education Network (NREN): Research and Policy Perspectives.

AT UT, he is an Associate Director of the Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute (http://www.utexas.edu/research/tipi/), a faculty affiliate of the Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record (http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/kilgarlin/about.php), and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies (http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/cwgs/).

He is serving as Graduate Advisor for the School of Information for 2005-2007.