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Abdul Alkalimat (Ph.D. University of Chicago) holds a joint appointment as a professor with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) Community Informatics Initiative (CII) and the African American Studies and Research Program. His research interests include digital inequality, community informatics, and African American intellectual history. Recent publications include The African American Experience in Cyberspace : A Resource Guide to the Best Web Sites on Black Culture and History (2004) and A Census of Public Computing in Toledo, Ohio (2004).
Ann Bishop (Ph.D. Syracuse) is co-director of the Community Informatics Initiative and associate professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Her research interests include the use and impact of computer-based information systems; social equity in access to information; and human-centered approaches to designing and evaluating information systems. She also serves as the associate editor for the Journal of Community Informatics. Recent publications include New Literacies and community inquiry in The Handbook of Research in New Literacies (2007), Community Inquiry in Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (2007) and Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation (2003).
Bertram (Chip) Bruce (Ph.D. Texas at Austin) is a professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. His research interests include community informatics; environments to support inquiry-based learning; collaboration in knowledge making; and new literacy practices. Recent publications include Libraries: Changing Information Space and Practice (2006) and Literacy in the Information Age: Inquiries Into Meaning Making with New Technologies (2003).
Jon Gant (Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon) holds an appointment as an associate professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. His research interests include electronic government, information technology and organization design; social networks, knowledge management, and information technology; strategic management of information systems; and geospatial technologies. Recent publications include Digital Government and Geographic Information Systems (2004).
Caroline Haythornthwaite (Ph.D. Toronto) is professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Her research interests include computer-mediated communication (CMC) and the Internet; information exchange via CMC; online communities; e-learning; social network analysis; collaboration; social informatics; and community informatics. Recent publications include the Handbook of e-Learning Research (2007) and the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Internet Annual, Volume 4 (2006).
Carol Tilley (Ph.D. Indiana) is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Her research interests include history of youth services librarianship, children's print culture, information inquiry and instruction in school libraries and media literacy. Recent publications include Of Nightingales and Supermen: How Youth Services Librarians Responded to Comics Between the Years 1938 and 1955 (2007).
Kate Williams (Ph.D. Michigan) is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Her main research interest is in the relationship between social networks, social capital, and the use of information and communications technology, particularly in low-income communities. Recent publications include A Census of Public Computing in Toledo, Ohio (2004).