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Welcome to the Ph.D. Students Webpage. This page provides a list of students currently enrolled in the UT Ph.D. program supervised by the School of Information. Contact the Webmaster to delete, add, or update your profile.

Mike Alexander
Email: mikejalexander@gmail.com
Homepage:
Research Interests: Information Behavior and Interaction, Information System Design
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Dillon

Paul Aumer-Ryan
Email: paul AT ischool DOT utexas DOT edu
Homepage: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~paul
Research Interests: Affective design, computers as social actors, usability, human-computerinteraction, user interface design
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Dillon

Snowden Becker
Email: snowdenbecker(at)gmail(dot)com
Homepage:
Research Interests: Audiovisual materials preservation, collecting, and management; amateur films and their use in creative projects, research, and study in many fields; preservation needs and practices of the general public; the history of audiovisual technologies and the future of film in a digital age
Advisor: Dr. Pat Galloway
Craig Blaha
Email: c.blaha at its dot utexas.edu
Homepage: http://fedpolicy.blogspot.com/
Research Interests: Federal information policy and preservation
Advisor: Dr. Philip Doty
Sam Burns
Email: See homepage
Homepage: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~sburns
Research Interests: See homepage
Advisor: Dr. Randolph Bias
Tony Cherian
Email: cherian@ischool.utexas.edu
Homepage:
Research Interests: Currently working on a grant with the staff at Varner-Hogg Plantation state historic site to create a series of public programs, a documentary film and an interactive DVD and Web site titled: Project in Interpreting the Texas Past.
Advisor: Dr. Loriene Roy
Gilok Choi
Email: higilok@yahoo.com
Homepage: http://www.choigo.name
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, user interface design, usability studies and methods, Web-based applications, databases driven Websites, three dimensional virtual environments, multi-modal information and its application to multimedia development, adaptive systems
Advisor: Dr. Randolph Bias
Dee Dee Davenport
Email: dee8725@fiat.ischool.utexas.edu
Homepage:
Research Interests: School librarians as integral partners in learningcommunities; Marketing school library services; Children's information seekingbehaviors.
Advisor: Dr. Barbara Imroth
Don Drumtra
Email: drumtra@aol.com
Homepage: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~drumtra
Research Interests: Organization of information and knowledge for business and public decision-making
Advisor: Dr. David B. Gracy, II
Lori Eichelberger
Email: lkeich@ischool.utexas.edu
Homepage:
Research Interests:
Advisor: Dr. Philip Doty
Maria Esteva
Email: mesteva@mail.utexas.edu
Homepage:
Research Interests: My research explores how people create, organize, and interact with digitalinformation; how information reflects their roles and activities, and howinformation can be preserved to reflect these activities over time. I study:digital records creation, use, and management; social interaction throughvisualization of text mining and social network analysis, and digitalpreservation strategies.
Advisor: Dr. Pat Galloway
Jane S. Fleming
Email: jfleming@ischool.utexas.edu
Homepage:
Research Interests: Information resource management in public sector organizations and related topics
Advisor: Dr. Philip Doty
Maria E. Gonzalez
Email: gonzalez@ischool.utexas.edu
Homepage:
Research Interests: Preservation policy, research collection development, and scholarly communications
Advisor: Dr. Pat Galloway
Mariela Gunn
Email: mariela@mail.utexas.edu
Homepage: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~hristova
Research Interests: Library instruction and information literacy; computing and visualization technologies in support of reference tools for the humanities; and mapping scholarly communities based on citation networks
Advisor: Dr. Philip Doty
Stan Gunn
Email: gunn@mail.utexas.edu
Homepage:
Research Interests:
Advisor: Dr. David B. Gracy, II
Don Hamerly
Email: hamerly@ischool.utexas.edu
Homepage:
Research Interests: social interactions in computer-mediated communication; librarianship for youth; tangential learning
Advisor: Dr. Barbara Imroth
Georgia Harper
Email: gharper@austin.utexas.edu
Homepage: http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/
Research Interests: Future of libraries in a networked world
Advisor: Dr. Philip Doty
Lance Hayden
Email: lhayden(at)ischool(dot)utexas(dot)edu
Homepage: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~lhayden
Research Interests: Security, Surveillance, Privacy, Discourse Analysis,Information Policy, Marketing, Web 2.0
Advisor: Dr. Philip Doty
Ron Houston
Email: ronhous*/at/*yahoo*/dot/*com
Homepage: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ron/index.html
Research Interests: Pattern-matching in not-necessarily-verbal information; "Meriting public trust" as a direction for LIS education; Digital divide mitigation as urban legend; and Quantifiable measurements of information
Advisor: Dr. Philip Doty
Sheng-Cheng (Hans) Huang
Email: huangsc@mail.utexas.edu
Homepage: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~huangsc
Research Interests: Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Usability Engineering, Semiotics, Language Recognition, and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).
Advisor: Dr. Randolph Bias
Jennifer Jobst
Email: jenjobst@gmail.com
Homepage:
Research Interests: Accessibility, Human-Computer Interaction, Usability
Advisor: Dr. Don Turnbull
Sarah Kim
Email: srhkim@gmail.com
Homepage:http://srhkim.com
Research Interests: Digital preservation in archives, personal digital archives, preservaton behaviors and sustainable practices in archives
Advisor: Dr. Pat Galloway
Lisa Kleinman
Email: kleinman@ischool.utexas.edu
Homepage: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~kleinman
Research Interests: Currently my main research interests are 1) collaborative groups & technology use and 2) the behavioral impacts of portable technologies, however I am always interested in any topics related to the design and use of technology
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Dillon
Bethany Letalien
Email: letalieb@mail.utexas.edu
Homepage:
Research Interests: Services to underserved and underrepresented (potential) users and usercommunities; Participatory Action Research; social equity and justice; Latin America, particularly Brazil; information policy and ethics.
Advisor: Dr. Philip Doty
Bettie McGinness
Email: bmcginness@sbcglobal.net
Homepage: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~bettiem/index.html
Research Interests: School library services to marginalized groups, class and race representations in children's literature, school librarians and leadership in schools
Advisor: Dr. W. Bernard Lukenbill
Owen McNally
Email: neuronoid@rocketmail.com
Homepage:
Research Interests: Biomedical informatics, cognitive neuroscience, neurophenomenology and consciousness research, molecular approaches to psychopharmacology, pharmaceutical design, human-computer interaction and user-centered design of software, and public policy
Advisor: Dr. Glynn Harmon and Dr. Gerhard Werner
Ann Minner
Email: aminner@ischool.utexas.edu
Homepage:
Research Interests: Emergent literacy, yourh services in public libraries, imposed queries,parent patron information needs, youth services culture
Advisor: Dr. Barbara Immroth
Jennifer Moore
Email: jemoore@ischool.utexas.edu
Homepage: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~jemoore
Research Interests: English as a second language (ESL) Outreach programs in school libraries, plagiarism in secondary schools, sexual education in public and school libraries
Advisor: Dr. W. Bernard Lukenbill
Tatiana Nikolova-Houston
Email: gabrovo61 at yahoo dot com
Homepage:
Research Interests: Inter-cultural administration and management of change ininformation institutions, preservation and access for medieval manuscripts, patterns of information in the marginalia and colophons of medieval manuscripts
Advisor: Dr. Donald G. Davis
Carlos Ovalle
Email: cjovalle@ischool.utexas.edu
Homepage: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~cjovalle
Research Interests: Intellectual property and copyright and how they affect cultural institutions including digital and intellectual property; Copyright and fan activities; Digital archives; Electronic records
Advisor: Dr. Pat Galloway
Tanya Rabourn
Email: tanya.rabourn@gmail.com
Homepage:
Research Interests:
Advisor: Dr. Mary Lynn Rice-Lively
Pedro Reynoso
Email: preynoso@ischool.utexas.edu
Homepage:
Research Interests:
Advisor: Dr. Loriene Roy
Jose Sanchez
Email: joesanchez@mail.utexas.edu
Homepage: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~sanchez/
Research Interests: Services to community and instructional technology
Advisor: Dr. W. Bernard. Lukenbill
Arro Smith
Email: arro@austin.rr.com
Homepage:
Research Interests: Classification, collection development, internet filtering technology (in public libraries)
Advisor: Dr. Loriene Roy
Susan (Sue) K. Soy, CA
Email: ssoy@ischool.utexas.edu
Homepage: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ssoy
Research Interests: Archival enterprise, electronic community networking, and electronic records management and preservation
Advisor: Dr. David B. Gracy, II
Patrick Williams
Email:
Homepage: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~jpwms/
Research Interests:
Advisor: Dr. Randolph Bias

Last update: 2008 March 26